[Feature] Change featured photo on mobile

[mimedo]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

On web I can change the featured photo of people in my library.
On mobile there is no possibility to do that.
Add this feature to the mobile app too.
Workaround is to switch to web app and change it there.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[bo0tzz]

I can't find it right now, but I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate.

[willm]

Looking at the network calls of the web app, it seems like to actually change it, you need to do a

HTTP PUT to /api/people/$person_id with the following JSON body

{"featureFaceAssetId":"xxx"}

The featureFaceAssetId being the id of the photo containing the face you want to use.

The app already has a screen that displays all the photos for a particular person. To make the experience similar to the web app, we could add an "Edit featured photo" option in the person options menu, open the view with all the photos for that person and allow the user to select one. Once selected, we call the api above to change the photo.

This is what the option looks like in web

[arth3mis]

I opened a PR for this: #31432