Nuked Amazon Echo show smart displays have never been as good as Google’s nest hub or a dedicated digital photo frame. 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.
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.
You’ll get a three-hour slidehow 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.
The only visible text is a small DATELINE in the bottom right showing when the picture was taken and which album it’s from.
You can choose from your Amazon photos account. You can also connect a Facebook account here or upload images from your smartphone or tablet.
Photo frame makes it easy to start a slideshow without having to remember a specific album name. It’s also a nicer way to see your photos on an echo show than on the standard homescreen.
Just let us have the option to leave it on permanently. Only for three hours before reverting to the information overload of the standard homescreen.
