Android Nuisances: Auto-tagging
The Samsung S 10+ has a feature called auto-tagging. It analyzes all images, even those taken with professional cameras and stored on the SD card, according to cryptic criteria and adds tags that are
meant to facilitate searches. In other words: It goes way beyond face recognition and adds category labels pertaining to standard scenes stored somewhere in the Operating System.
The categories are not visible and cannot be deleted. One can only exclude pictures of the same category from future searches.
This feature is designed for the messiest phone users who are unable to organize their images themselves.
Aborting this idiotic feature altogether is not possible.
Luckily Samsung offers a way out all the same: You have to use the USB adapter that is supplied with the phone. This allows one to connect any computer disk via USB. Even large SSDs are supported.
After connecting the memory stick or the disk you have the choice to put either the phone or the USB controller in charge of it. Here, of course, you choose the latter.
From this moment on you will have tag-free images on the Samsung S 10+. |