Amazon’s new feature turns your Echo Show into a better digital photo frame - The Verge

You can now have your Echo Show play a three-hour slideshow of your favorite photos with a simple voice command.

Amazon Echo Show smart displays have never been as good as Google's Nest Hub or a dedicated digital photo frame for doing one thing well: showing your pictures. This is because Amazon clutters up the screen with questionably useful info and alternates your pretty pictures with suggestions for the latest Alexa skill you might like to try, a recipe for egg salad, or a news tidbit about a tomato shaped like a duck.

But as of August 5th, you can now command your Echo Show to show you just your pictures and nothing else for a whole three hours.

Amazon’s digital photo frame feature, previously only available on the Echo Show 15, is now on all Echo smart displays in the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Australia.

Just say “Alexa, start Photo Frame,” and you’ll get a clutter-free, three-hour slideshow featuring your Amazon Photos, Facebook photos, or a collection of stock images. (If you want to know how to get your photos to show up in these albums, read my article on how to use your Echo Show as a digital photo frame.)

Crucially, this new Photo Frame mode hides all ads and calendar and weather notifications to become a photo-only slideshow. The only visible text is a small dateline in the bottom right showing when the picture was taken and which album it’s from.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23302051/echo-show-fire-tv-new-photo-frame-mode

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