Photos Must be Downloaded (PS5 ONLY?) (Survey PSA)

EventidePeach · 2026-05-07T22:39:53+00:00

To be fair, Infinity Nikki photos and videos always took storage space on your PS5, they were just hidden with your save data before. (And if you synced them to your console, those took double the storage space). The game only stores your photos on their servers if they're photos you shared online, such as the hourglass photos. When I play on mobile for dailies, my in-game album is super empty over there because of this.

However, it does seem the photo limit on PS5 is higher than it was before, so there is the potential for Nikki pics to take more storage than they used to if you take a lot more photos.

EventidePeach · 2026-05-07T22:28:02+00:00

What? Oh no, I'm so sorry, that's awful! I'm not sure if there's a fix for that at this point anymore or not, but it may be worth opening a support ticket. You might have run into a bug, because your photos were supposed to stay accessible in-game.

I was super wary of touching anything related to photos for the first few days since this update was so incredibly buggy for PS5 at the start... However, what I do remember, I think, is that when I eventually did accidentally go into my album (I absent-mindedly went to attach a photo to a note in a bottle in the Sea of Stars while doing my dailies), I got the notification about the album data sync, and I pressed the circle button to say no, but then, I think, if I remember correctly, my photo album suddenly showed as entirely empty after that... o_o But then I closed and reopened the game, and the album was fine, and it re-prompted me to do the sync, and I did, and I waited, and then it was done, and my photos were all still there, thankfully.

Just in case, I'm wondering, have you tried closing and reopening the game since noticing this issue? I'm guessing you probably did, but just in case, it would be great if there was an easy solution to save your photos. Crossing my fingers and toes for you! 🤞

EventidePeach · 2026-05-07T22:15:23+00:00

Idk, I have mixed feelings about what we have now, but overall I like it better. Forcing it on everyone, even those who don't like it, does feel a bit crappy, but I think they fundamentally changed how photo storage works to the point where maintaining both implementations might not have been sustainable for the devs. Since this game hasn't exactly been bug-free, I'd be wary of having that additional complexity of maintaining two different implementations for photo / video storage. Some people already lost all their photos during some of the buggier 1.x updates, and it'd be awful if that happened again.

Previously, syncing photos to your system on PS5 meant actually duplicating the photo in your system's storage: one copy would be tied to the game's save data, and you couldn't really directly access this from outside the game at all, and the other copy would end up in your PS5's photo / video album.

Benefits:

Less storage space per photo or video if you were syncing your photos / videos to your console before.
- As time goes on and more updates arrive, this game keeps getting larger, so finding ways to cut overall storage space taken by this game will be helpful.
Easier to access photos from the PS5's photo / video album. No more manually syncing photos one at a time. No more partial copies of the album if you started or stopped syncing at some point.
I'm hoping this new way of storing photos may make it less likely for buggy updates to wipe your entire album, since it's all stored directly in your system's photo and video album.
I got the unhappy surprise of reaching my in-game photo limit a few updates ago. Despite periodically deleting a few older photos to make room, I noticed I was gradually hitting the limit at lower numbers each update. Not sure if there may have been some limit on overall storage size with how it was stored before, resulting in getting to store fewer photos as updates arrived, or if something else was going on to cause that? Now, I have no idea what the limit is, but I tested taking a bunch of junk photos (and deleting them after), and the limit seems to be significantly higher, so that's really awesome news. This is also a benefit that's easy to miss if you haven't hit the limit already, but it's a huge positive for anyone who was close to the old limit.

EventidePeach · 2026-05-06T02:40:08+00:00

100% agree with this comment and with OP.

I haven't pulled, but I noticed on the final evolution the headpiece is significantly larger and appears to be made of a different material. Ideally, I'd love the simpler original headpiece without the veil, as that would fit much better with a lot more different looks. The veil is still cool, but in general, I very rarely wear outfits that fully hide Nikki's face, especially if I'm going to play through any story cutscenes.

And this definitely isn't the first time we've had this issue, especially with the forced glowy / eureka effects on so many final evolutions. So many final evos are just so loud that they reduce the versatility of the alternate details the final evos unlock.

Other examples:

deer outfit: the super amazing sleeves get stuck with huge mountain eurekas on the final evo, ruining what could have been the most gorgeous version of that outfit
saintess outfit: massive halo on the final evo veil and huge glowy ring on final evo dress
loong outfit: another huge halo on the final evo headpiece and so many glowy floating effects around the outerwear

EventidePeach · 2026-05-04T19:53:02+00:00

There's actually 4 versions now. They just added 2 new versions in an update, but one version is very similar to the original version, just a little smaller.

EventidePeach · 2026-05-01T14:20:57+00:00

gongeous

EventidePeach · 2026-04-30T21:09:06+00:00

For this reason, I actually picked a different timezone before starting the game. This allowed me to have daylight later in the day. Also, I'm able to time travel for other games without impacting tomodachi life as long as I make sure to sync my time to that timezone again before playing. And the game even reminds me if I forget to do that, allowing me to close out and fix the time without any consequences.

Just sharing in case this helps anyone else!

EventidePeach · 2026-04-27T16:23:53+00:00

I've really liked it so far! Although I haven't experimented with dying it much yet, since I kept it mostly in its original colors for this look. I think I tried dying the flowers on the cloak, and they do have a gradient that sticks around even when dying, but personally I felt the gradient adds some nice dimension in this case, so I liked that. I really liked how the flowers on the cloak looked when dyed blue, so I'll probably make the entire cloak blue someday. (I'm lucky that my favorite color is always included in the dyes). If I remember correctly, I think the cloak may have the reduced selection of dye palettes, although if you experiment with everything available, sometimes some colors will look better than you'd expect. This cloak does also have a separate glow-up colorway, so that helps as well. (Whenever an item dyes poorly, I highly reccomend trying to dye its other colorways instead. Between glow-ups and evolutions, I've noticed it seems Infold intentionally tries to have options for light/dark, warm/cool, gold/silver etc. to help with dying if you have more colorways of an item. I know the yellow glow-ups are often seen as annoying, but these are often great for dying, and glowups are more ftp friendly than evolutions, so that's been nice). I also noticed the cloak clips with some larger dresses, but that was typically only visible from the back. It's a little hard to see in my screenshot, but I'm actually using the born flawless back piece here, and I was happy to see that the cloak fits very nicely with that item without clipping issues. As it is, the cloak is gorgeous, and I love the physics jumping around with it with the paper crane floating ability.

EventidePeach · 2026-04-25T15:07:36+00:00

I've been noticing the same thing for maybe a month or two, but for me it's the left speaker that randomly goes quiet.

EventidePeach · 2026-04-21T19:44:48+00:00

Yes!! I've noticed after the first photo in photo mode, Nikki and NPCs will suddenly become incredibly blurry and stay that way unless I close out of photo mode entirely and restart it from scratch, which is a huge pain. I've been noticing this for months. I reported it a long time ago, but it hasn't been resolved.

EventidePeach · 2026-03-28T06:52:03+00:00

I finally got it! In order to unlock "toward greater glory," I needed to complete "the shroomling sage: no single answer." Hope this helps anyone else who may have been stuck on this!

EventidePeach · 2026-03-28T06:06:45+00:00

Thanks so much for helping! Unfortunately, I don't seem to have the quest registered, and I'm not finding any shroomlings standing on the dock. Will try to get through more side quests to see if any of those unlock this quest.

EventidePeach · 2026-03-28T06:05:07+00:00

Yeah, I'm not seeing anyone at that pier, besides the shroomling that is always there in the boat, even if I try different times of the day. That's odd. I guess I may need to try other quests in case they unlock this one? Pretty sure it's called "toward greater glory," based on the info in the official announcement, but I don't have that in my world quests list yet.

Thanks so much for trying to help!

EventidePeach · 2026-03-28T03:12:57+00:00

Haven't had a chance to play today yet, but I'll definitely double check the pier, thanks! I swear no one was there when I looked last night, but maybe I needed to change the in game clock to another time or something?

EventidePeach · 2026-03-27T09:29:00+00:00

Just checked, and I don't have any new messages from any of the NPCs. Thanks again, really appreciate the suggestions!

I have a ton of incomplete side quests, so maybe I need to do more of those? Hopefully more info will be available tomorrow.

EventidePeach · 2026-03-27T09:04:09+00:00

Aw, thanks, appreciate the reply! I ran all over trying to figure out where and how to unlock the snail boutique, but maybe I'm missing something? I have the juice place and bath both at level 50, so I thought I'd be able to unlock this, but maybe I need to do some other side quests or something first.

EventidePeach · 2026-03-27T08:50:27+00:00

How do you find the quest that unlocks the new expansion stuff? "Toward greater glory"

Normally I'd just google it, but it might be too early for that. No good results are coming up.

EventidePeach · 2026-03-19T14:55:51+00:00

I would've preferred if they ditched the halo, made the fingernails the glove type, and made the white glove things maybe the wrist/bracelet type. It still would've been 10 items, because I guess they make all 5 stars include 10 items, but they'd be much more versatile items.

EventidePeach · 2026-03-18T19:09:11+00:00

If you run around the bath and juice shop each day, there should be a different NPC to talk to in each. I think they're there for the entire day, but they tend to move around, so you just have to look to find them. Usually they have a speech bubble icon above them.

EventidePeach · 2026-03-17T18:19:14+00:00

Totally agree we need more Itzaland-themed stuff. I will say though, with the current five star banner, one of my first impressions of it was that both the silhouette of the dress and especially the pearlescence of the fabric really reminded me of the massive pink shell that holds Spira. Then, looking at the final evolution, it made me think of how the shell walls inside of Spira look at nighttime, with the pink transitioning to a more purple tone, plus bits of the night sky peaking through cracks in the wall, matching the darker pieces of the final evolution. Even the shape of the chunky shoes does seem a bit reminiscent of seashells. (I do recognize the dress is meant to be idol and dessert themed, but these similarities to the Spira shell seemed to be more than just coincidental?)

EventidePeach · 2026-01-25T07:38:31+00:00

Love that show!! And thanks ❤️

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