Photos Connector

Route: /app-connectors/photos

Purpose

Photos Connector is a private media library connector for albums, device or cloud photo metadata, AI organization drafts, and future memory search.

Boundary

It is not Apple Photos, Google Photos, a social gallery, or Moments. Photos remains private by default; Moments remains a separate timeline, story, social, or publishing surface.

Current MVP UI

• Provider cards for Apple Photos, Google Photos, Local Photos, R2 Archive, and Camera Roll placeholders.
• Albums, recent media, memory clusters, duplicate review, album draft, privacy notes, and Moments relationship note.

Mock Data Model

The UI uses mock albums, media counts, cluster labels, thumbnails as abstract cards, and privacy states.

Future Connectors

Future work may add local bridge imports, cloud photo metadata, export inspectors, duplicate review, album drafts, and selected Moments publishing.

Alma Capabilities

Alma can later organize approved media summaries, draft albums, and help search memories without default public publishing.

Permission Boundaries

Thumbnail metadata, full media reads, face recognition, uploads, and publishing are separate scopes. Face recognition is disabled by default.

Backend Status

No photo read, upload, face recognition, cloud provider API, backend route, or database schema exists.

Security And Privacy

Photos are highly sensitive. Private media should stay private by default, with explicit album-level consent and no automatic face inference.