local-photos

Summary

Meal photos are written to the app's own document directory and no screen has ever uploaded one; the only way a photo leaves the phone is the user picking a destination in the OS share sheet.

Why it matters

"Where do my food photos go" is a reasonable question and not one to leave the user to assume either way. The gallery is a record the user owns, and the post composer has to make it obvious that AskCal has no account anywhere and cannot post on anyone's behalf.

Implications

• lib/photos.ts writes into the app's document directory. Nothing uploads.
• The post preview is what gets handed to the share sheet — the same crop, the same overlay. A preview that lies about the crop is worse than none.
• Every line on the post card is removable except the AskCal mark, which was never the user's line to remove and is visible in the preview before anything is sent.
• Turning "Keep meal photos" off stops new photos; it deletes nothing already saved, and the screen says so. Saying it is what stops the setting being a dark pattern.

Related

• confidence

Sources

• .context/designs/mobile/gallery/gallery.html
• .context/designs/mobile/gallery/photo.html
• gallery/photos-off.html, the off state — deleted from the design set in edc7cdb