Pinch in or out on the photo list to change the photo display size.

Hide the date icons by doing the following:

• While viewing the photo list, tap the button in the upper right to open the menu.
• Tap View Options.
• Turn off “Show dates”.

Show the date icons by doing the following:

• While viewing the photo list, tap the button in the upper right to open the menu.
• Tap View Options.
• Turn on “Show dates”.

Tap one of the date icons shown in the photo list.

Change the album view options to display your photos with date icons or in calendar view, just like the main photo list.

Adding date icons to an album

• Tap the button in the upper-right corner of the screen to open the menu.
• Tap View Options.
• Turn on “Show dates”.

After performing the above steps, your album will be shown with date icons. Tap a date to view all photos in the album in calendar view. To hide the date icons, turn off “Show dates”.

Note

Turning on date icons will show photos in either newest-first or oldest-first order, depending on the album’s sort settings. To display photos in reverse order, turn on “Reverse sort order” under “View options”. Turn off date icons to restore the original photo order.

You can view and organize your photos with Scene even when your device is not connected to the network. However, there are some limitations:

• If you received an album from a friend but have not yet opened it, you can’t view the photos within.
• If you have received photos from a friend but never viewed them in full screen, you will be unable to do so.
• You can’t add photos to, or remove photos from, shared albums.
• You can’t share photos.
• You can’t sync your account with other devices, even if you are logged in.

Use Scene Connect to sync photos from your PC or Mac into Scene on your smartphone. Just install Scene Connect on your computer, then log in with your Scene account. Add folders by drag-and-drop, and their contents will be synced to your Scene app via our servers.

See the Scene Connect official site for details.

When Scene shows duplicate photos, it may be that the photos are not duplicates, but merely that you have multiple distinct, but very similar, photos on your device. In particular, the following kinds of photos often appear similar but differ in resolution, compression, or metadata; thus they are displayed individually.

• Photos downloaded from the Internet via a web browser
• Photos copied or edited via photo editing apps without making significant changes
• Photos taken in burst mode

Note that you can determine the location of a photo file on your device by checking the Devices tab on the photo info screen. See “How can I find the save location or filename of a photo?” for how to find the Devices tab.

It is possible to view only the photos that are not present in any album.

Showing Only Photos Not In Albums

• From the photo list, tap Photos in the upper left to reveal a pull-down menu.
• Select “Photos not in albums”.

While showing “Photos not in albums”, any photo that appears in at least one album will be hidden from the photo list. In order to view all of your photos, choose “All photos” from the pull-down menu. It is also possible to show only videos—choose Videos from the pull-down menu.

＊ Learn more about hiding folders in the User Guide.

It is possible to show only your videos in the photo list.

Showing Only Videos

• From the photo list, tap Photos in the upper left to reveal a pull-down menu.
• Choose Videos.

While showing “Videos only”, all items other than videos will be hidden from the photo list. In order to view all of your photos, choose “All photos” from the pull-down menu. It is also possible to show only photos not present in any albums—select “Photos not in albums” from the pull-down menu.

You can hide specific folders on your Android device. Photos in hidden folders will not appear in Scene.

Hide Folders From Scene

• Tap the ☰ icon in the upper left.
• In the drawer tap Folders.
• Under Local tap the item representing your device.
• Folders on your device containing photos will be shown in a list. Tap the menu icon in the upper right.
• Tap “Show/Hide folders”.
• Deselect any folders you want to hide, then tap OK.

＊ Learn more about hiding folders in the User Guide.

＊ Note

• Photos already added to albums in Scene will still be displayed, even if their folders of origin are hidden. To hide such photos, please delete them from any albums they are present in.
• To un-hide a folder, follow the steps described above and reselect the folder. The folder’s contents will once again be displayed in Scene.

You can hide specific photos on your Android device to prevent them from being shown in Scene.

Hide Photos From Scene

• Tap the ☰ icon in the upper left.
• Tap Photos.
• Tap the icon in the upper-right corner to show the menu.
• Tap “Advanced…”.
• Tap “Hide photos”.
• Select any photos you want to hide, then tap OK.

＊ Note

• Photos already added to albums in Scene will still be displayed, even if they are hidden. To hide such photos, please delete them from any albums they are present in.
• To un-hide a photo, follow the steps described above and choose “Restore photos”. The photo will once again be displayed in Scene.

Scene is primarily intended to be a viewer for photos stored on your device. When you delete a photo from your device, such as via the standard Photos app, that photo will no longer be shown in Scene. When you add a photo to a Scene album, a copy of that photo is saved to the album. Thus, if you later delete that photo from your device, the copy will still appear in the album. However, for the following reasons we do not recommend using Scene to save storage space on your device, for instance by adding photos to albums and then deleting them.

• Copying photos to an album takes time, and occurs in the background. If you delete the original photo before the copy is completed, the photo will disappear from the album as well.
• Copies stored in albums are shrunk to a size optimal for display on a smartphone; the original photos are not copied.
• Animated GIFs and photos in special formats not supported by Scene (Photo Spheres, etc.) are not copied. If you delete these from your device, they will disappear from Scene albums as well.

Please keep the above in mind when deleting photos from your device. If you have further questions, please contact us via the link below.

• https://www.scn.jp/en/contact-ssl.html

Images you download from web sites or social networks often contain Exif data. Exif data is usually added by the smartphone or digital camera used to take the photo. It contains the date taken, type of camera, lens, exposure, shutter speed, and other details about the photo.

When a photo contains Exif data, Scene uses this information to determine when the photo was taken. For instance, a photo reported to be taken on 2013/1/1 will be shown under the date 2013/1/1 regardless of when you saved it to your device.

To see if this is the case, we suggest using a different app (one that sorts by date saved instead of date taken) to open the photo and check its Exif data. If it has a taken-on date, look under that date in Scene.

If you try this and still can’t find your photo, please contact us at the following link.

• https://www.scn.jp/en/contact-ssl.html

Scene’s Photos screen combines identical photos. If you have copies of a photo on both your device’s internal storage and an external SD card, these copies will be shown as a single item in Scene.

Check the Devices section on the photo info screen. Find it by doing the following.

• Tap a photo to show it full-screen.
• Tap the ⓘ icon on the toolbar in the lower left.
• Tap the Devices tab.