Workflow: getting an image out of a mobile file preview

[dwyanewang]

What am I trying to do

I review agent output from my phone. Agents produce images — screenshots they captured, generated diagrams, design output — and my next step is almost always to move that image somewhere else: paste it into a chat with a teammate, keep it in my photo library as a record of a run, or drop it into an issue.

How I do it today

Since #4032 I can open the image in a file preview and zoom it, which is great for looking at it. To actually use it I leave Paseo: I take a phone screenshot of the preview (which crops badly and loses resolution), or I wait until I'm back at a desktop and pull the file off the machine there.

Where Paseo gets in the way

The preview is a dead end on mobile. It renders the image and offers nothing else — no copy, no save, no share. On a phone every other image surface has a long-press or share affordance, so the preview reads as broken rather than minimal. The result is that mobile review stops at "I saw it" and the workflow continues somewhere else.

What the flow would look like if it worked

Long-press the image in the preview, get Copy / Save to photos / Share. Copy puts it on the clipboard for the next app, Save writes to the photo library with an add-only permission prompt, Share hands the already-cached file to the platform share sheet. Then the phone is enough to finish the review.

Does anyone else hit this, and if so what do you do with the image afterwards? Curious whether the common case is share-to-a-person or save-for-the-record, because that changes which action should be the obvious one.