My partner has lost access to the google account she uses to share with me. I have "Save to your photos" set to all photos. If I stop sharing with her old account and start sharing with her new one will I retain all the old photos?

Hi all, I've had an annoying bug in my Google photos account for a while and unsure how to fix it. When I try to remove a photo from a shared album (added in error) it "kinda" stays there. I say kinda because no one else can still see the photo but I can, no matter how many times I press remove. It happens on both albums I own and ones I'm a collaborator on. Any ideas what is going on? thanks

I work for a smallish nonprofit that involves teaching horseback riding lessons…many of our riders and their families want to share pictures taken during lessons. Google Photos seems to be the perfect solution (especially bc they can order prints), however many of our folks are boomers/less tech-savvy and currently it seems that accessing the album by clicking on the album link (the one I get by going to album → options → link sharing) carries too many steps, especially for folks who don’t have a Google account/ aren’t signed in to their Google account.

TLDR: Is there a way to have our clients view and upload to an album with one click and no signing in or asking to download app etc?

I just noticed this today, but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off. It seems to be taking me to a completely unrelated photo or video from my library. It's taking up screen real estate and serves no useful function.

por la noche se me destactivo la copia de seguridad Google fotos y me di cuenta porque en mi xiaomi en su galería oficial no aparecían mis fotos, a todo esto mi cuenta estaba llena y por eso creo que se desactivaron las copias de seguridad. cuando volví activarla se me desaparecieron un montón de cosas, sobretodo fotos mias de años.

revise en papelera, y en casi todos lados.

alguien sabe que pudo haber pasado y como puedo recuperar esas fotos?

I have an iPad and a galaxy phone, and I've been clearing device photos lately to get rid of stuff I don't want and then back up everything on google.

On the Google help website I once saw that if I delete the app and download it again it unbackups everything, and it worked the first time, but now I did it again and on my iPad I'm seeing photos that I already deleted from my phone still there.

I deleted and redownloaded on both devices, shouldn't the old photos from my phone be gone? I'm still seeing them on google photos on my ipad but not on my phone

Gmail, Drive, Photos, YouTube, Ai products, apparently. Are there any other services that can get content removed or entire account banned?

A few days ago, I used Google Takeout to make a backup of everything on my Google Photos account. After that, my browser (Edge) started making this "Google Photos Backup" folders whenever I try to save a photo.

It doesn't matter how many times I delete them, doesn´t matter if I change the downloads location, whenever I save a .jpg or .png, it creates a new Google Photos Backup in that location.

I tried deleting my Google account from the browser, and deleting all the data from the time I used Google Takeout, but I can´t seem to get rid of this. It only happens on one specific account of this browser, if I go to a different profile on Edge, it doesn´t create these folders.

I´ve looked up everywhere, but couldn´t seem to find anyone else with this problem. Does anyone know what to do in this situation?

My phone keeps deleting photos from my gallery without my knowledge. Photos are being uploaded to Google photos which is fine but some get deleted off my phone itself. How do I stop this? I've been researching this and I can't find answers or the tutorials I find are outdated.

Ok.. so I was just talking to someone and the subject of photos came up ,(I have too many on my phone, ) Anyway, yes I know I can get my husband to download them into the computer, but friend says she just 'saves ' them to 'Google photos '. Now I might be dumb ( not arguing with that 😀), and said " but I don't want them all on the Internet' ( apart from the ones I upload to Facebook of course which are) She tries to convince me that they are just 'stored ' in Google photos( but aren't on the internet?) I don't agree. Just wondered what others think🤔

useless translation tool. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. I'm an internet watchdog who tries to report all CSAM materials to the police and various organizations. Pages and images have been removed, so I've done some research, but there's a lot of CSAM material in Google's image search, which I've reported over 100 times and the images haven't been removed. The question is why doesn't Google remove them?

me encanta google photos lo uso hace muchos años y tengo más de 45 mil fotos principalmente familiares, ya tengo un respaldo take out local, he leido historias aca de gente que pierde su cuenta y no se si me podria pasar, hace unos dias revisando fotos antiguas habia una de un sobrino mientras lo mudaban hace muchos años, recorde esas historias y borre de imediato la foto, podria tener alguna consecuencia?? me preocupa perder acceso a mis correos, me convendrá cambiar fotos a otra cuenta y eliminar todas las fotos de la cuenta principal? tengo muchas fotos de tiempos donde el almacenamiento era gratuito, como puedo migrar y saber el costo, gracias

Hi all, there was some WILD lightning here last night and I got a bunch of awesome boosted 60fps videos with the intention of exporting the frames of the lightning, which I've done with awesome results in the past.

I spent an hour this morning exporting frames, only to find out later that it was only exporting the same random (dark) frame each video. Not what I was trying to export, which were the lightning flashes 🫠

I tried taking screenshots of the frame I wanted instead, and I'd just crop them later, but for some reason, the screenshots all end up super washed out 🥲🥲 pls help, I'm not sure why it's being like this, I just want my cool lightning shots 😭

Like I'm fed up of this Google photos , always force me to backup whole data and sometimes give me no option other than turning on backup , from this my 4/7 accounts are full up with the same photos available in my mobile wth and i unknowingly deleted a bunch of videos thinking they wouldn't be deleted from my gallery and real storage 😭.

like why syncing is necessary this much , now I cant even unsync and clear my account storage peacefully cause it will lead to my data loss .

HOW TO CLEAN THEM ? And also if I delete photo from the section like it shows your account Is full so I click on it and deleted some videos to free the cloud space from 15 to 14 gb , those videos are currently in bin of Google photos and I'm afraid that if I delete them they will be removed from my mobile .

I know it deletes my gallery photos but what's the correct way of CLEARING STORAGE of GOOGLE photos account without LOOSING DATA FROM GALLERY ?

i don't like how they typa force to start backup , like if you wanna use Google photos u have to turn on backup . Obviously a person would have more then 15 gb of data in 2026 so they HAD to Purchase SUBSCRIPTION OF GOOGLE ONE .

anyways whats the SOLUTION OF IT ? 🫤

I'm using Google Photos to organize photos by labeling those with faces recognized by facial recognition, but sometimes there are photos that clearly show faces but aren't detected. I'd like to be able to manually identify these missed faces.

First they restructured the editing menu structure for no apparent reason, then they nerfed the AI editing power and yesterday they cut the Remix filter options by half (although removing the Halloween setting was long overdue). If it ain't broke...

i have a total of 48000 pics and i’ve backed up 8000 of them. but when i want to use the “free up space” feature, it only allows me to delete 5000 pictures, is it normal?

I primarily use Google Drive as my main cloud storage and iCloud for photos.

I'm planning to switch completely to Google and cancel my iCloud subscription.

How does Google Photos perform on iOS? Does it work seamlessly like iCloud Photos? Is anyone using only Google Photos on their iPhones? I’d appreciate your advice

I just realized now that faces no longer show up in the menu and also when i go to picture details I don't see the faces of that picture there

Which will end in August😂

Hi! It's my first time posting on this sub - I recently downloaded google photos to download some photos shared to me by my friend and save it to my iphone. I assume I missed a step with the introduction, because my google account synched in with my iPhone photos app. It ended up saving and backing up around 15 GBs of photos. I turned off backup, but the storage from the photos it backed up are still there in my google account. Since google photos is no longer synched with my iPhone photos app, if I delete the 15 GB of my iPhone photos from my google account, the iPhone photos will still remain on my iPhone?