Vehicle_Gallery

📸 Vehicle Gallery

Overview

The Vehicle Gallery is your van’s private photo album — a place to store every photo of the build, the exterior, the interior, mechanical work, and general life on the road. It keeps your van photos organised, separate from your main camera roll, and linked to the specific vehicle they belong to.

Open the gallery, flick through the grid, and set any photo as the van’s profile picture with one tap.

Opening the Gallery

Tap the photo icon (📷) that overlays the bottom-right corner of the van header card on the Van tab home screen. The gallery opens as a full-screen view showing all photos for that van in a three-column grid.

If you’re in the Fleet Manager, you can also open the gallery from a van’s card — tap the photo or icon area.

Adding Photos

Tap the + icon in the gallery toolbar to open the iOS photo picker (multi-select enabled). Select one or more photos from your library. The selected photos are added to the gallery with today’s date and the “General” category.

There’s no limit on the number of photos in the gallery.

Photo Grid and Sorting

Photos are displayed in a 3-column grid. Two sort orders are available via the sort button in the toolbar:

Oldest First — The default. Shows the van’s history in chronological order, from earliest to newest. The grid scrolls to the bottom (most recent) automatically on open.

Newest First — Most recent photos at the top.

A floating date chip in the top-left corner updates as you scroll, showing the month and year of the photos currently visible — so you can always tell roughly when a section of the gallery was taken.

Viewing a Photo

Tap any photo in the grid to open the full-screen viewer. Swipe left and right to move between photos in the gallery. Pinch to zoom.

Setting the Profile Photo

Long-press any photo in the grid to open a context menu with two options:

Set as Profile Photo — Uses this photo as the van’s main header card photo on the Van tab home screen. It appears as the large square image in the header card (cropped to fill the square frame).

Delete — Permanently removes the photo from the gallery. An alert confirms before deletion.

You can also set a profile photo from within the full-screen viewer via the same long-press/context menu.

Editing Photo Details

Tap any photo in the full-screen viewer to open its detail sheet. From here you can:

Caption — Add or edit a text caption for the photo.

Category — Assign the photo to one of six categories:

General — Default
Exterior — Outside shots
Interior — Inside the van or living space
Mechanical — Engine bay, under the van, technical details
Build Progress — Construction stages of a van conversion
Documentation — Photos of documents, plates, or reference material (handy for photographing the VIN plate, tyre placard, etc.)

Categories don’t filter the grid view — all photos are shown together regardless of category. The category is metadata for your own reference.

Date Taken — The date the photo was taken. Defaults to the date it was added to the gallery, but you can change it to reflect when it was actually shot.

Photo Storage

Gallery photos are stored using iCloud Photos integration. The app links to photos in your iCloud Photo Library by their asset ID rather than duplicating the image data — this keeps storage lean and means your gallery photos benefit from iCloud backup automatically.

If you haven’t given the app Photos Library access (or only gave “Selected Photos” access), some gallery photos may not load in the viewer. Check Settings → Privacy → Photos to adjust access.

Per-Vehicle Galleries

Each vehicle in your fleet has its own gallery. Photos from Van A don’t appear in Van B’s gallery. Switching the active vehicle in the Fleet Manager switches which gallery is shown.