Navigating your Frameo
Swipe left or right to go through your photos. To access the menu, simply tap once on the screen.
[Image: Frameo device screen showing navigation icons: smiley face, crossed-out eye, grid, phone, gear, power button]
In the menu you will find the most used features.
? Add friend
This will generate a code that you can share with your friends and family so they can connect and send photos to your frame.
⚙️ Settings
Opens the Settings.
power-icon Power menu
Opens the Power menu.
react-icon React
Opens the React menu. NB. The React menu can also be accessed by double-tapping on the screen.
hide-icon Hide photo
Hides the current photo. This means that the photo will no longer be shown in the slideshow. If needed, the photo can be shown again through the settings menu.
gallery-icon Gallery
Opens a gallery which allows for easy and fast navigation through your photos.
fit-frame-icon Fit to frame/Fill frame
This toggles how the photo is shown. The Fill frame option is the default. The photo is scaled so that it fills the whole screen. It will be centered around what is selected as the most important part.
Fit to frame will make sure that the entire photo is shown on the screen.
[Image: Two photos side-by-side. The left shows a close-up of watermelon with a fork. The right shows the same scene but cropped and blurred on the sides, indicating the 'Fill frame' effect.]
Adjust photo
Allows you to adjust the position of the photo in the frame for an even better fit. Here you can also use rotate-icon to rotate your photo, and you can use edit-icon to edit the caption on imported photos. For received photos, please ask the sender to edit the caption in the Frameo app.
Interacting with videos
When a video is shown, two additional controls are shown. One for play/pause of the video and one to control the volume level for video sounds.
play-icon Press to start the video playback. Pressing pause-icon will pause the video playback.
volume-up-icon Press to open the volume slider. Use the slider to adjust the volume level for video sounds.
Pressing mute-icon will mute the video while pressing unmute-icon will unmute the video.
[Image: A vertical volume slider with a speaker icon at the bottom.]
External storage menu
When inserting an external storage (e.g. a microSD card) a menu will automatically appear with three options: Press play-icon to play photos directly from the external storage, press download-icon to import photos to the internal memory of your frame or press refresh-icon to make a backup of your frame.
[Image: External storage menu with icons for play, import, and backup.]
Clock and Weather widgets
The current time and weather will appear in the upper-right corner of the frame when the frame has received at least one photo. Tapping either of these will open the weather menu.
Weather menu
The weather menu contains more detailed weather forecasts and has shortcuts to weather-related settings.
location-icon Shows the weather location of your frame. Tap to access the weather location settings.
1 DAY
1-day forecast, which includes weather conditions for time periods of the day.
4 DAY
4-day forecast. Tap to see the weather forecast for the next four days.
clock-icon Displays the frame's current time. Tap to access the time settings.
Settings
Through the settings, you can personalize your frame to your needs.
My frame
Frame name
Changes the name of your frame. This is also the name that connected friends and family will see in their list of connected frames in the smartphone app.
Frame location
Changes the location of your frame. This is the location displayed on your friends' and family's list of connected frames, which can help to distinguish frames from each other.
Set language
Sets the language used on the frame.
Weather location
Sets the location for the frame's weather feature, ensuring that your frame displays the appropriate weather forecast for you.
Temperature unit
Toggles between the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales.
Date
Sets the date used on the frame.
Time
Sets the time used on the frame. Frameo will automatically try to set the correct date and time when connected to the internet.
Time zone
Sets the time zone used on the frame.
Set first day of week
Sets which day of the week is considered the first.
Enable/Disable 24-hour format
Enables, and disables, 24-hour time format.
Manage photos
In the manage photos menu, you can see how many photos are on your frame and the storage they use. You can also see the amount of storage left available on your device for storing new photos.
Show/hide photos
Select which photos to hide by tapping them. Hidden photos will NOT be deleted from your frame, and you can always select them to be shown again. Use hide-icon to hide or show all photos.
Delete photos
Select photos that you want to permanently delete from your frame by tapping the photo. Use select-all-icon to select or deselect all and delete-icon to permanently delete the selected photos.
Import photos
Allows you to import photos from an external storage (e.g. microSD card). Before you try to import photos, make sure you have an external storage (e.g. microSD card) inserted into your frame with the photos you wish to import. Start by selecting the photos that you want to import onto your frame. Once selected, tap the import button import-icon to start the import process. Use select-all-icon to select or deselect all photos on the external storage (e.g. microSD card). Use sort-icon to set the sort order of photos before import and arrow-up-icon to order by ascending/descending.
NB: Please note, many frames will need a FAT32 formatted microSD card with a maximum of 32GB of storage. Please check with the brand of your frame for more information regarding compatibility for your specific device.
Transfer from computer
Allows you to transfer photos from a computer using a USB cable. Enable the feature and then follow the on-screen guide for step-by-step instructions on how to transfer photos to your frame. For more information, please visit our help center: https://frameo.net/usb_faq
Export photos
Allows you to export photos from the frame to external storage (e.g. microSD card). The export function will export all photos on the frame as well as profile pictures.
Play from external storage
Enables / disables playback of photos and videos directly from an external storage (e.g. microSD card) without taking up space on the frame.
My Friends
This list contains all the connected friends that are allowed to send photos to your frame.
Change options for a friend
Click the options icon options-icon to open the friend options menu. From here, you can allow / disallow if a friend may share the code to the frame. If this is enabled, the friend can retrieve and share the code to the frame from his/her app. You can also allow / disallow a friend to use the Frameo feature: Allow friend to see photos from this frame. From the options menu you can also delete a friend, by pressing the DELETE FRIEND button. This will remove the friend from the list and thereby remove their permission to send photos to the frame. You will then be asked to confirm the removal and if you would like to remove all photos previously received from this friend.
Add person
To allow a new person to send you photos, simply tap the add friend button add-friend-icon and share the presented code in whatever way you prefer.
Display
Brightness level
Adjust the brightness level of the screen.
Sleep mode
Frameo offers a sleep mode which turns off the screen to reduce power consumption. The default setting is to turn off the screen at 23:00 and turn on the screen again at 07:00 every day. This can be altered by changing your sleep schedule(s). It is possible to have multiple schedules active at once to e.g. have different settings for weekdays and the weekend or a separate schedule to turn off the frame while at work.
Your frame is not powered down or in standby, so you will still be able to receive photos during sleep mode.
Slideshow
Timer
Set the duration that a photo should be displayed before showing the next photo.
Fill frame
Set the default frame photo setting. Check to set default to fill which makes the photos fit the device screen according to the most important part of the photo. Uncheck to make the photo fit inside the screen of the device, adding background bars on the sides or top/bottom.
Frame background
Choose between several different frame background options to be shown as bars if the photo does not fill the screen.
Photo display order
Sets the order in which your photos are displayed on the frame.
- By date taken: Photos are shown in order of when it was taken.
- By date received: Photos are shown in order of when it was received.
- Shuffle: Photos are shuffled and shown in a random order.
Reverse photo display order
Sets whether photos are displayed newest to oldest or oldest to newest.
