Is there a way to get around size limit for “Uploa

I'm using this code to share a collection of images:

final ArrayList<Uri> imageUris = new ArrayList<>();
for (final ImageBean selectedImage : ImageBean.getSelectedImageBeans(imagesBeans)) {
    final File imageFile = new File(selectedImage.getPathToImage().getPath());
    final Uri contentProviderUri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(context, BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID + ".provider", imageFile);
    imageUris.add(contentProviderUri);
}
final Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
shareIntent.setType("image/*");
if (imageUris.size() == 1) {
    shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imageUris.get(0));
} else {
    shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
    shareIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imageUris);
}
context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, context.getResources().getText(R.string.share_images_intent)));

I'm mainly interested in uploading to Google Photos. This works great for an image of 600KB, but fails for a 5 MB image (24MP from my camera). So apparently there's a size limit, but as the error happens in the Google Photos activity, I'm unable to debug it (or I don't know Android Studio well enough on how to do that).

Is there a way I can change my Intent so I can upload multiple 24MP images, or is the size limit a given and I need to work around it (eg. by implementing the Google Photos API)?

It turns out that Google Photos doesn't play well with the FileProvider. The upload works when using the public content URI, to be found using something like

int mediaId = cursor.getInt(getColumnIndexForMediaID());
Uri publicUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, Integer.toString(mediaId));

Now I'm back at Can't edit image in Google Photos after "Upload to Photos" activity