How to turn your Android phone into a digital picture frame
by Allison Johnson from The Verge - All Posts on (#5Y56C)
Use your phone's screen saver feature to show off your favorite images saved to your Google Photos. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
If you have more images in your Google Photos app than you know what to do with, why not put your phone to work displaying them? With a few simple steps, you can use your Android phone's screen saver feature to turn your phone screen into a digital picture frame while it charges.
This works especially well for phones with wireless charging (so you can see your photos with the phone propped up on a charger), but it will work with any kind of charging mode or if you connect your phone to a dock. It's built right into the operating system, and it's a neat, easy way to show off some of your favorite photos.
I used a Motorola Moto G Stylus (2022) for the steps below, but the process is very similar on a Samsung or Pixel phone. You'll need to...