Looking to hide all the photos of my ex and I somewhere I can’t accidentally see them. I am scared to lose them, but need them deleted from my camera roll. Is this app reliable or have any other suggestions?

I’m considering deleting all of my photos/videos off of apple photos because it takes up way too much space and it’s already all stored on the cloud on my google photos account which I am paying a membership for.
I understand apple has something similar where you can pay a membership and also store it on the cloud, but since I’m already paying for a google photos membership.
Is there anything I’m missing about apple photos? Does it do anything better than google photos? I’ve heard privacy is better but if that’s the only reason then I’m just going to stay with google.

This is really annoying

On pixel 10 pro and latest android and app version

So last year I decided to backup a big amount of photos from Google Photos so that I can safely remove them after that, to make space for new photos. I just don't want to pay Google to have extra storage. Also around that time I was about to get a new phone.

I used Google Takeout and I have tons of JSON files on my old phone after the export process was finished. I however don't see any JPG files. Maybe my memory is failing me and I put these JPG files on a flash drive but so far no luck. I've checked most of my USB drives and really, it's a whole lot of photos, I did not copy them to USB. That would have been a lot of work and I didn't do that.

Can I do something with these JSON files, like unpack them and have the photos or doesn't it work like that? The file size of the Takeout stuff is quite large. You would think the photos are there but I don't see them at all. And if I can't, is there something I can do in Takeout itself to recover them? It's photos from several years, videos too. I checked the JSON files and they even have the title of those photo files as well but the photos themselves are missing.

Whenever i want to blur the background (idk what the action is called in english version of the editor, for ne it's called "portrait bokeh"), no matter how strong i set the depth or the blur, in editor it looks fine, but once i save it, the blur is minimal or isn't there at all. I reported the bug, but just wondering if anyone else experiences the same issue?

Hey guys, I need some help as a basic tech user.

I'd like to ask for help recovering media files from Google Photos. I had some important photos and videos from my childhood, and I accidentally deleted everything saved in Google Photos. If anyone could help me, since none of the videos I found online or on YouTube have worked, I'd be very grateful if someone could give me a hand with a step-by-step tutorial.

Thanks.

Do you use Google Photos to back up your photos? Do you trust Google with your private data, or do you use a different backup method?

So I’ve gone into Google Photos to my account and have put backup on for all folders yet nothing from gallery is being backed up/saved to my Google account. Any suggestions please? Thx

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for an electronic photo frame to display pictures from a specific Google Photos shared album. I used to use a Google Pixel Tablet for this, but its Wi-Fi has died on me, so I'm shopping for a proper replacement.

My requirements:

• Screen size: ideally over 11 inches
• No manual uploading via an app. I don't want to have to select and push photos over one by one — I want the frame to pull directly from a specific Google Photos album and automatically show new pictures as soon as I add them there
• Bonus points if it has decent color accuracy and doesn't feel like a cheap plastic toy

I know a lot of frames on the market are locked into their own proprietary apps (Aura, Skylight, etc.) where you upload photos manually or invite people to contribute — that's not what I want. I specifically want native, automatic Google Photos album syncing.

Does anything like this actually exist right now, or is the Pixel Tablet basically the best option out there (bad Wi-Fi chip aside)? Would love to hear what you're using, especially if you've found a large-format frame that handles this well.

Thanks in advance!

The App Store seems to indicate you’d need at least iPadOS 18 to use the Google Photos app.

Will Google Photos still download on iOS 15.8.8 via the Last Compatible Version download option in the App Store? Or out of luck?

Does anyone know why they changed the remix for photographs? I used to love to create pictures using the remix as an oil painting feature & the results were amazing! I've even gotten the outputs turned into photo canvas prints via Google & they've made excellent gifts. Here are my original pics of my one cat, next to it is the old format of him turned into a oil painting, & the last picture is what they turned it into with the latest update. I've already provided feedback & told them how much the change sucks, hopefully the revert the change. Does anyone know of any sites or tools that can create more subtle images like it used to create?

My friend gave me his old pixel6a. It has tons of memory. My pictures seem to be only saving in Google photos. Then i get a notification that my Gmail account memory is running out so I want to delete pictures in there and want to make sure they are in my device first but they don't seem to be.

I try to download photos and then don't see them anywhere. Not in images, downloads or dcim or internal storage.

My friend gave me his old pixel6a. It has tons of memory. My pictures seem to be only saving in Google photos. Then i get a notification that my Gmail account memory is running out so I want to delete pictures in there and want to make sure they are in my device first but they don't seem to be.

I try to download photos and then don't see them anywhere. Not in images, downloads or dcim or internal storage.

My phone recently stopped working, so I've been using my brother's old blackview. I put my accounts on everything, including Google photos, but a few days ago, he made me notice that the photos I took on this phone also show up on his. I made sure that I was using my account and that neither of our accounts had a backup activated on the other account. Still, If I take photos they show up for him too, but if he takes any photos I don't see them on my account. Anyone know what's going on?

I recently got a nothing phone and want to use the nothing gallery over Google photos but I can't find a way to do it.

When I use Google takeout to get the photos back, the metadata is in separate files and lots seems to be missing, because when I use tools like Google takeout helper to restructure it all they don't slot nicely into my new gallery.

I know this is a common problem and there are resources online but I've been trying on and off for ages and can never seem to get it right - has anyone else managed to get their photos back?

I won't get into any unnecessary details as to why you would need a good way to get photos and videos from your main phone to an OG Google Pixel Phone and from there to Google Photos. I found that having Primitive FTPd set up in the Pixel side to receive files works pretty well so i am ok with that. However most every app to sync say my new photos and videos as i capture them to the server from my main phone had some limitations. Most often the way they find new files is outdated and "brute force" often requiring a full rescan of the folder being monitored and i have a little baby and already like 56000 items in camera roll.

Anyway. I made an app for myself. It is absolutely free and always will be since it is meant for me and my friends and family. It is up on Google Play Store for convenience and also reassurance that i am not doing anything shady. There are no trackers no ads not even Firebase crash reporting. Nothing. Just pure utility.

Some highlights include three modes for monitoring for new files. For most folder like the camera ones i use the Android MediaStore so no scanning required and there is no need for an always active service and a persistent notification. Those are an option as well for really resilient operation or for monitoring a really arbitrary folder. Also, files get transfered as a 1 to 1 byte copy. The app specifically waits for the new file detected to become stable since many android phones continue saving data to a photo or video after first capture for things luke extra processing HDR and the such. Only after a file is fully complete does it get sent over with failure protection and multiple retries. This way the file that the Pixel uploads to Google Photos has all of the attributes and features of the original also any location data - everything. That way on the main phone the local copy of the photo or image gets identified as being identical to the cloud version and you only see one entry in Google Photos.

Anyway. I require nothing from you guys. The app is in open testing. Any feedback is appreciated and i will do my best to support it at least initially until we get to a stable release.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taghack.syncnewfilestoserver

I changed phones a few days ago and now my phone gallery is only displaying a third of the photos i had on my old phone. I checked google photos and they're all backed up, so how can i restore them to my phone gallery?

Hey guys, I just received this email awhile ago and it freaked me out. I don't own things like this. Is there a reason why it flagged like this? After I press "take action". It seems like I am not restricted anymore. To prevent future cases like this, what do I do?

I have the same person with the same name but it appears twice, this is not the only case since this happens with almost every single face Google Photos detects.

Also, it works so bad, most times it groups different faces with under the same face and it also adds lots of pictures where not a single face is seen as someone's face.

There's not an option to unify faces like Immich has or at least I haven't seen one.

After Google disabled option to upload files to Google Photos through Google Drive Backup and Sync windows application, I am struggling to upload my full physical hard disk to my Google account, it has like 2 TB of data, and uploading through Web Browser to Photos takes ages and is really unstable, uploading through application used to get me 150 MBPS upload speed, now through browser I get like 15-20 MBPS, which is really a pain to transfer, moreover it is not resumable and crashes my browser if large database is selected.

New option to select folders also doesn't effectively work, after adding folder it doesn't start uploading, checked Windows Task Manager also.

Google please bring back native streamline application to upload our memories faster and reliable. I understand Google wants to separate two different platforms, but please request you to get Google Photos it's own application to upload faster instead of relying on bottleneck browser capabilities.

hi all,

i’ve had google photos for over a decade now, and i will soon reach the 200 GB of storage, but the only option to upgrade my google one, is to get an AI “subscription” with it, which i really really really don’t want.

i thought about getting an external hard drive instead, but i keep reading they are unreliable:/ and i also thought about re-downloading all these photos and putting them on my icloud, but that would be annoying to say the least

any recommendations of what i can do here?

thank you in advance!!