Galaxy S6 Guide

Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to manage and edit your photos

You can use Gallery app to organize, manage and edit all photos and videos on Galaxy S6 and S6 edge.

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1) What can Galaxy S6 Gallery app can do?
2) How to access Galaxy S6 Gallery app
3) Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to view images and videos
4) Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to delete photos and videos
5) Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to edit photos
6) Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to edit photo details
6.1) Can you use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to manage and edit your photos on your Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge?

What can Galaxy S6 Gallery app can do?

Gallery app is an essential app in all Android devices. Galaxy S6 (and Galaxy S6 edge) is not an exception.

Galaxy S6 Gallery app organizes all photos, images and videos stored on your S6 or S6 edge.  The features of Galaxy S6 Gallery app include:

  • View photos and videos saved on Galaxy S6.
  • Organize photos by creating albums, events, categories.
  • Edit photos.
  • Delete photos and videos.
  • Share photos or video to other apps.

Please note, Galaxy S6 Gallery app does not have its own storage folder. The info of photos and videos on Galaxy S6 is provided to Gallery app through media scanner service on the phone.

This means the photos and videos are saved in the folders of corresponding apps. Galaxy S6 Gallery app does not make a copy of them.

How to access Galaxy S6 Gallery app

You can access Galaxy S6 Gallery app in different ways, for example:

Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app  to view images and videos

By default, when Galaxy S6 Gallery app is started, you will get the default album (folder) view as shown below.

The CAMERA  button is for you to switch to Galaxy S6 Camera app.

The MORE button is context sensitive.  If you are in album view, the functions will be related to album, e.g., create an album.  If you are in events view, you will have the option to create an event.

You can tap the Albums as shown below to switch to other views:

  • Time. Your photos and videos will be organized based on date instead of folders.
  • Events. You can organize photos by creating events.
  • Categories. Galaxy S6 will automatically organize the photos and videos based on camera modes (e.g., video, burst mode….) used, and objects in the photo (e.g, people, food, scenery, documents…)
  • Favorites. It will only show your favorite photos (you specified them explicitly).

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Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to delete photos and videos

Once you open a photo in Galaxy S6 Gallery app, the photo will be shown in full screen.

Tap the photo to get the options as shown below:

  1. Back to previous screen
  2. More options (details, slide show, set as contact picture, set as wallpaper).
  3. Add photo to favorites.
  4. Share the the photo.
  5. Edit photo.
  6. Delete photo.

If you cannot see these items,  just tap anywhere on the photo.

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To delete this photo, tap Delete icon (6) as shown above.

Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to edit photos

Galaxy S6 Gallery app also offers some basic photo editing features.

To edit the photo, you need tap Edit button (5).

The available photo editing tools in gallery app include :

  • Auto adjust
  • Rotate the photo
  • Crop the photo.
  • Photo editor, including manual adjust, tone, effects, portrait, drawing
  • Make collage.

For most Galaxy S6 owners, these tools are sufficient for daily use. If you need more tools to edit the photo, you may try some third-party professional photo editing apps.

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Use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to edit photo details

Sometimes, you may want to remove some privacy info (e.g. location tags) in the photo before sharing them in public.

Galaxy S6 Gallery app allows you edit the details of the photo easily.

When viewing the photo, tap the MORE button (2 as shown in earlier screenshot) in top right to choose details. Then you can edit such info.

Please follow this guide on detailed steps to remove location tags from the photo.

Can you use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to manage and edit your photos on your Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge?

If you have any questions on how to use Galaxy S6 Gallery app to manage and edit your photos, or encounter any problems, please let us know in the comment box below.

The community will try to help you.

For other features of Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 online manual page.

For detailed guides on how to use Samsung Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 how-to guides page.

For detailed guides on how to use Galaxy S6 camera, please check Galaxy S6 camera guide page.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. hajj says

    Hi there. Wanna know how to stop wats app media to be saved/download directly into the gallery?
    Tx waiting fr reply

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  2. KB says

    Once i have created an album i can not add any new pics to it even using the move to album tab. It says its moved them but it doesn’t.
    Any help on this please

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  3. Carm says

    There is no delete option in the Gallery, it only appears when i just taken a photo and review it from the camra mode. But once I go back to Gallery a bit later fo same photo, I can’t delete it. I need help!!

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  4. Miranda Magnatta says

    I would like to know how to get apps to stop repeatly automatically downloading to my Samsung Galaxy S6 when i uninstall them, how to get photos to not synce automatically to my Facebook even pop up on my Facebook, how to delete pictures from photo gallery there is not delete option anywhere to be seen. I can only delete the photos when I take them.

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  6. mark k says

    i have downloaded all my photos from my old S3 to my S6 Gallery (yellow flower symbol)… I have created the albums and moved all the pictures. Now I need to put the photo of my choice as the album cover – I cannot find any action to do that. Can you guide me through it please.

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  7. Julie T. says

    I can’t get my Facebook pictures to show up in my Gallery. I’ve turned on Sync Photos in the Facebook app and I’ve added Facebook to my Accounts. I checked the green bo in Sync with your device, but my email account right above says Sync turned off and it’s grayed out. I can click on it and it takes me to the next page where I see my Facebook account, but when I try to click on it nothing happens. I know that the S5 had a “Content to Display” in the gallery but I can’t find that. It seems that I can take a picture and it will go to Facebook, but I want the whole Facebook gallery on my phone.

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  8. Brandon says

    How do I disable the thumbnails across the bottom of the scree within the text window. For example, if someone sends a picture message, and i tap on it to expand, there is a thumbnail gallery across the bottom of the screen that blocks part of original picture that was sent. I would like to remove that gallery from the bottom.

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  9. Robert Garcia says

    My storage is currently to the tip full. And yes, it’s from picture and video files. I try searching through my gallery to delete things I don’t want, but every time I log into it, it reminds me that I need to clear storage space, and redirects me straight to the ‘files’ app. Now I don’t know what is good and what is bad, and I need to clear space asap. How can I look through my gallery, even with storage limits?

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  10. Alison says

    How do I stop my gallery from taken my existing photos and zooming on people’s faces and putting it into the people category on my phone? This is zooming in on people I do not know and can look very suspect. Please advise.

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  11. Linda says

    I am having difficulty moving photos into albums I create and also albums that have been created. It was working, but then it froze after moving some photos. Now when I go to move photos into an album there is a message that it is unable to move the photos. The first time it happened, after a while it worked again, but after the second time, and waiting overnight to try again, no luck. Can you help?

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  13. Lotus says

    The thumbnails within my Gallery have suddenly shrunk and become so small I have to individually click on them in order to identify…tried reset etc. No go. This just happened a few days ago. Is it suggesting it is time to download them to a file on a tbumb drive or my pc?

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  14. john says

    Is there anyway to re-arrange my pictures so the first photo I’ve added to an album is the first photo shown on said album.

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  15. sandy says

    Need to delete a photo from Gallery. When i tap the photo my only choices are favorite, share, edit. There is no delete option. I have been deleting photos when viewed in camera mode, but this photo isn’t showing up in the camera anymore only in the gallery and i need to delete it. Why is the delete option not showing up in the gallery?

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  16. Joey says

    How do I write on a picture with my Galaxy S6? I can’t find the feature. It was easy on my S5. Where did the photo editor move it?

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  17. ottster says

    So I plugged my phone to my pc got all the images out of my gallery apps, but when I went back to my mobile phone and look in the gallery apps all the images are gone, but all the videos are left, 56 videos in Categories are still there. How do I go about moving them to my pc or even delete them all together?

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  18. L .Robertson says

    Upuntil a few days ago I could edit photos in my gallery. Now I can’t . It will allow me to rotate, crop but no photo editor or collage.
    It comes up with message saying photo Editor is not installed on this device. Download Photo Editor ?
    When I try to do this it comes up with this message -Error This app is not available for your device.(com.sec.android.mimage.phototouching:2290:4002)

    Can anyone help please ?

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  19. Robert White says

    I have just moved my photos from a Galaxy S3 to an S6. All of the albums moved with their contents intact. How can I move photos from one album to another album? The above guides don’t cover this.

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  20. Bisun says

    How can I create a video clip from the photos on my S6?. The gallery app only shows the option for slideshow settings, but there is no option to create video clip.

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  21. Jen says

    I’ve accidentally deleted a whole album….unfortunately it was my camera album. Is there a way to recover this?

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  22. Susie says

    Very frustrated with Samsung 6 Edge, there must have been an update to the photo editing Samsung app, when update the option to crop pics is totally gone. I used this all the time, anyone else have that problem????

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  23. Danny says

    I have photos in albums and want to rearrange the order for slideshow, It looks like Gallery App only arranges the photos based on time which doesn’t give me the result I want. Is there some way to alter Gallery App or is there an add on app that can manage the order of photos in an album or folder?

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  24. Selwyn says

    Hi
    Is it possible to alter the position of the photos shown on the gallery on the s6 edge mobile ?
    When I observe my favourites in the gallery I would like to put the very best ones altogether at the start of the photos shown on the gallery screen.
    Many thanks.
    Selwyn

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  25. Carlos Castorena says

    I don’t have the crop option on my Galaxy s6. I have every other option displayed in the picture offered above, but it’s just non existant. Need help. I need it.

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  27. Myk Sia says

    hi! i used to have use samsung kzoom for my photos. when i take photos, it is auto saved in the “camera” i will refer to it as c1 folder for the purposes of discussion. when i crop, it will save to another folder “studio” and when i edit it further it goes to another folder “camera” i will refer to it as c2. the original photo remains in the “camera” folder. now in s6 edge, when i edit a photo, the edited photo gets saved in the same folder that saved the original photo. is there a way for the edited photo to get saved in another folder? thank you in advance.

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  28. icegirl88 says

    For some reason, when I try to open the images that people sent me over whatsapp, within whatsapp (by clicking on the chat and opening media), the size of the image seems to have shrunk. However, i can view the images in normal size via the gallery , under whatsapp images. Any idea why this happened????

    And also, i keep getting a message about having to change the screen overlay settings in order to use some apps. Any idea about this also??

    I thought my galaxy was doing so well for the past few months till now..Miss my iPhone!!!

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  29. A.S. says

    I recently created a new album in my photo gallery. However, in doing so it has left a scroll down option to jump to other albums on the left side of my screen. I have seen this before, but can usually get rid of it by expanding the size of the photos. It seems to be permanent this time and it’s driving me crazy! How do I get rid of it? I’ve tried getting rid of the newly created album, but that didn’t work.

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  30. Angel Martinez says

    Is there a way to change the the apps that pop up when you click “Share” for a picture? When I click Share, it pops up Share via and various apps show up. I would like to customize this list.

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  31. Donna says

    I would like to see the Gallery photos in a list so I could pick from the name/number of each. So far I can only see to open a single photo, open details to find its number.

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  32. Sam says

    I have a number of images in my gallery that I have tagged as ‘favourites’. I’d like to import those favourites so I can arrange to have them printed in hard copy but I can’t find the folder when I sync to my PC. What am I missing?

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  33. Scott J Denham says

    This is the worst gallery i have ever had. I hate that it creates its own stuff. It copies same picture over and over and puts it in so many folders. Time images people and others to. Then selfie. I hate that word. I put 15 pictures in its own folder and erased them in other folders and it erased the pictures i put in the folder i created specifically for that group. Ypur App really sucks and wish i can remove it and have a basic one.

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  34. Diana says

    Is it possible to have my snapchat photos saved to my gallery like they did on my S4 instead of saving in My Files?

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  35. Kate says

    Is there any way to make an album within an album? Ie have a main album (Holiday) and then have albums within this (each day) for example?

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  37. Julie says

    I have a galaxy 6 edge plus. The crop option for pics has disappeared! When I tap on the pic and then choose Edit option, I only get a choice of Adjustment, Tone, Effects, Drawing and Add Image and there is NO crop option in any of these options…..before there was a Tool Bar that came up giving you the option to crop, rotate etc. HELP

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  39. Simon says

    I’m taking photos of older print photos. I’ve found how to change and identify the location of the original photo, but is there anyway on S6 gallery to change the date from today’s date to several years ago?

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  40. Andy says

    Hi I have 2 problems, firstly i am trying to change the catagories of certain photos as pictures of cars have listed as boats and some of people have listed as vehicles so having issues.
    Secondly when I go to category view instead of time or albums it only shows me a few categories and does not show cars or other categories my photos are saved as.
    If I choose search then it gives me a list of all categories but I am after the category being listed as normal with the other categories in the app viewer.

    Many thanks

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  41. blinglover says

    How can you delete photos that are in ‘auto backup’? I didn’t put them there – or at least I don’t how I did it if I did. I have other photos that are not in ‘auto backup’. I am not sure how it decides which ones will be in backup and which ones won’t. I have some on my tablet as well that I would like to delete.

    My phone is a Galaxy s6. My tablet is Galaxy Note 10.1.

    Help, please.

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  42. Terra says

    in the gallery app I will delete photos and the next day they will appear and its very annoying, also if i get stickers sent to my facebook from people it will save in my gallery every single time how can I stop or change these settings.

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  43. Deb Lien says

    My s6 gallery app just disapeared today from my s6 phone home screen. I have no idea why!! Instead there is still the google photo app. (A milti ciored pin wheel) Which I do not like using at all!!!! So where did my gallery app go to? Thank you for listening to my problem! Gallery where are you ????

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  44. Rose says

    How do I save a picture on my Galaxy S6 after I have zoomed in on it? I want to save the zoomed pic rather than just crop the original pic. I hope that makes sense. Thanks for any help you can give me.

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  47. Jessica says

    All of a sudden I am unable to copy or move pictures from the downloaded album to the camera album. It says “unable to move” or “unable to copy”. I’ve always been able to do this. Any suggestions?

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  48. Michael says

    I now have a S6. How do I hide certain photos? I could do it on the S4 from the gallery easily. It was called Hidden Items in the S4 gallery.

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  49. Kath says

    Do i have to have the event folder within my Gallery? Photos getting grouped as an event. What’s the use of It? How to remove it

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  50. Diah says

    Hi,

    I have a samsung s6.

    Where can I find videos that have been edited?

    It says that the edited video has been saved to a file named ‘project001’.

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  51. Kevin Clark says

    I am trying to turn off sync photos on Facebook. It tell me to go to app settings then turn off sync photos but there is no sync photos icon to do it. How do I stop Facebook from doing this or how do I turn it off

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  52. Mahdi says

    i need to change the view for the images on gallery folders but i cant.. its appers as 8 vertical lines so its small i need it be 3 or 5 vertical lines for good view so please help me on that with many thanks in advance.

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  53. Shannon Martel says

    I recently purchased a Galaxy S6, When I go into gallery to edit photos, upon clicking edit – and portrait the following pops up on my screen: “Unfortunately, Photo Editor has Stopped.” I’ve cleared the caches, reset the app preferences and rebooted the phone. Still this function isn’t working.

    Any idea what’s going on?

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  54. Jennifer says

    The images in my gallery used to appear by day. Now however they appear by month. Any idea how I can change this back to day?

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  55. Karen Dickson says

    I have the Galaxy 6 and I detest the Pictures app! I would like for all of my photos and videos to be able to view in my Gallery app. I do not want albums, collages, sorted by person, event, etc. I would prefer that my photo/videos to appear in the order that they were taken or received thru text or messages. I like to edit photos, so the edited photo should just be able to be saved to Gallery at the time I edited them. This way I always know exactly where to find every photo/video that I have. How can I move ALL photos and videos from Pictures back to Gallery and GET RID OF THE PICTURES APP?? HELP amd and thank you so much if you can tell me how to get out of this mess!

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  56. Sandra Cardozo says

    hi, I’m kinda confused. I have my galaxy s6 plus edge, and it doesn’t crop my photos..or at least i can’t find the option. please help.

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  58. Chet Steadman says

    On a galaxy s6, under gallery, choose a photo, and then edit>draw it used to have an eyedropper color match option. I do not see that is still on there. Is it possible it’s under another edit function I’m not seeing or was this dropped?

    Eyedropper was great!

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  59. Brian says

    I made a gif using pictures from one of my albums. It took the pictures and permanently put them into the gif. How do I undo that and put the photos back into the folder for normal viewing. I am afraid that if I delete the gif all of the photos will be lost.

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  60. Elle says

    Hi. I was tidying up my phone and deleted what i thought was dublicate widgts/ icons for Gallery. It turns out ive lost a years worth of photos. Ive checked google back up and they are not there either although older photos are there? Any ideas appreciated.

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  61. Shelly says

    Does the Samsung Galaxy s6 automatically, after a certain period of time, seperate pics into albums and make titles for the albums, all on it’s own?

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  63. Maria says

    My Gallaxy S6 has just updated & i cant delete pictures its telling me its moved into i cloud but wont come off my phone. Can anyone help?

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  64. Rose Ott says

    Hi I am putting photos into my albums but when I try and put more in ,,it comes up with File in use ,,rename ,,skip what does this mean or how can I just put them in ,,do not want to rename
    ,thank you

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  65. Liv says

    Hi, I reset my camera settings. But it’s messed with my gallery and I no longer have the option to see my photos in Time order. Also when I open Gallery it defaults to Camera in the first instance. I’ve been in and out of the settings and can’t find a way of getting it back to how it was.

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  66. Charlene says

    1. I am unable to move my photos in the gallery between the different albums. Every time I try it says *unable to move file*

    2. I am also not able to change the size of the photos in camera app settings anymore, it stays on highest resolution, and all my photos are now 10Mb+ each!

    I recently updated my software, and the problems persist. But now I have an additional problem as mentioned above in other comments, there is no longer a cropping icon in my gallery, and I must now use an external editor which is irritating for such a supposed to be quick function.

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  68. Angal1234 says

    When I chute a photo on FB Messenger it saves to my gallery. How do I stop this.
    In addition, photo’s I’ve deleted return to gallery. I need this feature to also stop. Thank you

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  69. Mike Chapman says

    I have my pictures in an album but want to put them in a specific order so they are viewed in sequence. I cannot see how to do this

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  71. Amoureaux Courneya says

    Hi, I have the latest galaxy and when I move a photo to a album, it duplicated the photo. So, I have one in the desired album and another in the photos section of the gallery.

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  72. Ronald says

    Hi, i have a camera, made some pictures and copied these to my phone, Into the directory of corresponding album. But these photos doesn’t appear while viewing the album. Photos made with the phone does appear… what i do wrong or forget? Please help

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