No access to native gallery (or my In phone gallery) when adding photo layers,

I'm having difficulties accessing my photos.

I go to add layer -add photo layer - from photo  library - Then the local photos bit is Blank . very frustrating as i can't resolve it .

I've toggled the option in settings. I've moved photos to Various diff rent folders.

I think the main problem is it doesn't remember my setting for native photos when adding photos to layers.