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Help Photos greyed out in apps besides Photos and Files

Hi everyone,

Since a while I've been having a problem that apps besides Photos andF Files cannot seem to access photos. When I open the gallery through e.g. Instagram, I can only see the 3 or so most recent pictures, the rest are just grey.

I can go to the photo's app and chose share to send the picture to Instagram, although this is a hassle and I'd rather have everything working as it should.

I'm running Android 11 on a Nokia 8.1
 

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