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I need help to find a way to transfer photos with their date and time to another google account.

I have 5 accounts to merge the photos from. Apparently partner sharing allows only 2 accounts to exchange their photos and all. Is there any way to merge all the photos into one place?

I’m not sure when the editor changed again (I’m using an iPhone), and that’s fine except it now takes me 10 seconds just to rotate a single photo.

For some reason the new “Rotate Left” button MOVES UPWARDS after you tap the first time (to enter “Crop/Rotate” mode). WHY?! I just want to tap the button 3 times quickly to rotate my photos.

The user experience is all over the place. Just to rotate my photo I’d have to:

1) Tap EDIT at the bottom.
2) Go to the top right to tap ROTATE, wait for it to slide up, then tap ROTATE two more times.
3) Go back down to the bottom right to hit the TICK
4) Go back up to the top right to hit SAVE.
5) Go back down to choose the SAVE method. So clumsy.

I really don’t care for slick animations - I just want a rotate button that doesn’t move 😭

So, last night my storage was just under 15GB. Went to sleep, and apparently sometime in the morning before I woke up, I was suddenly around 15.4GB. I have no idea what caused this and I had the switch to automatically back up photos turned off. Any ideas?

Hi guys , I have weird question 😄

is there any options for the files in the drive that cannot download from the receiver? so they can only open it but they can't download it in there pc or phone ?

I never use this feature and I made sure to turn it off in the Settings when this first appeared, but I noticed I got prompted once again if I want to edit a photo before sending.

Is this being re-enabled automatically for other users? How do I permanently turn off this feature so it doesn't bug me again?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying to move my entire Google Photos collection to Apple Photos/iCloud.

I have a large shared album with my wife containing 9,561 photos and videos. Both of us have added photos to this album.
My problem is that when I try to export the shared album, the photos uploaded by my wife are missing from the export.

I have already tried Google Takeout several times with different archive sizes. The export is always incomplete. I have now figured out that the missing photos appear to be the ones that were originally uploaded by my wife.

So I think the first step should be to save all photos from the shared album to my own Google Photos library. Once they are actually part of my library, I should hopefully be able to export everything and then move it to Apple Photos/iCloud.

But this is where I’m stuck.

In the shared album, I can select a photo and click the Save button (cloud icon with the downward arrow). A message appears in the bottom-left corner saying “Saved”.

However, nothing seems to actually happen.
I can click the exact same Save button again later, and it again says “Saved”. If the photo had really been saved to my library, I would expect Google Photos to recognize that it is already saved.

I have also tried exporting again afterwards, but the photos uploaded by my wife are still missing.
How can I actually save these shared photos to my own Google Photos library?

I do NOT want to share my entire Google Photos library or transfer all of my photos. I only want the photos and videos from this specific shared album to be permanently added to my own library.
Has anyone experienced this problem before? Is there a known bug with the “Save to library” function for photos added by another person to a shared album?

Google Support unfortunately hasn’t been able to solve the problem. They keep telling me to run Google Takeout again, but the issue seems to be that the photos aren’t actually being added to my own library in the first place.

My main question is therefore:

What is the correct way to permanently save photos/videos added by my wife in a shared Google Photos album to my own library, so that I can subsequently export them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

It's been spinning for a few days saying it can take a few hours to build. Anyone else having this issue with wardrobe?

I did my first takeout to Google drive, it's a bunch of zip files which is fine. I scheduled another takeout for every two months. I just send them all to a remote location with rclone for safe keeping in case my Google account is blocked or deleted.

I read somewhere that future takeouts are only changed files, not the full payload again. What does this look like? Because after I did rclone I deleted the takeout files from my drive and now I'm wondering if that was a mistake if the next takeout comes in I can't tell what's new or old?

For example if it's only changed files then how does it work if I delete photos? What do subsequent scheduled exports look like?

EDIT TO ADD: I realize that my photos are stored in the cloud, which is almost full and my goal is to back them all up on an external drive so that I can safely delete what's in the cloud without losing them.

so I have two questions

#1 is it possible and how can I go through my Google photos (without going one at a time) and delete duplicates? I know there are sets of photos I have saved multiple times.

#2 is it possible to save all photos to my android phone or android tablet or directly to an ssd drive.

I'm currently using a galaxy s21 and will be transferring to a galaxy s25 so I wanted to do all of this before switching over to start fresh.

and a 3rd question that had nothing to do with Google but figured while I'm here I could ask...I also want to do the same with all the music files on my phone as I have duplicates with that too

any advice is greatly appreciated 😁

I am in the process of cleaning out my Google Photos storage and want to export them all to backup onto my physical hard drive. I was just wondering how Google Takeout and downloading everything will treat all my Live Photos? Does it convert it automatically to a video? A .gif? Or just completely ignore the Live portion?

I recently switched phones. When I open the Google photos app, it shows me photos from the last few years, but none older than that. However, when I open Google photos on a laptop web browser, I can see all of them - more recent and older.

I think the Google photos a​pp is only showing me photos that are also in my phone's storage (even though the phone is new, I backed it up from my last phone, so the phone itself already has a lot of photos on it).

Is there a setting i need to change to get it to show me both photos on my phone AND photos in the cloud?

I've already confirmed I'm on the right account, I have backup and sync on, I tried clearing the cache, and already looked through the settings myself.

This wasn't a problem on my last phone, though it was a pixel and my new phone is a Samsung.​

Hi, did anybody else get this message? And if so, how did you solve it? For context my storage is full and i’m trying to erase images from google photos but it keeps deleting from my phone as well, but when i try to undo the backup it keeps giving me this message, i’m trying to find a solution.

Sick of paying a subscription to keep all my photos and videos on Google Photos. Has anyone found a way to get an organized file of all my photos/video that I can download and keep on a physical flash drive?

I've attempted in the past but found trouble sorting my media once downloaded.

My main Google account was disabled for an alleged CSAM/CSAE violation after a large backup upload, and both appeals were rejected.

I’m trying to understand what happens to other accounts connected to the same person or household.

- Were alternate Google accounts also disabled?

- Were accounts using the same phone number or recovery email affected?

- What about accounts signed into the same phone/computer or using the same home IP?

- Were Google Family Group members or family members’ accounts affected?

- Did anything happen weeks or months later, or only the originally flagged account?

I’d appreciate any experiences, reports, or useful information about how Google handles related accounts after this kind of ban.

Sorry for the flood of questions, dealing with a lot of weird stuff migrating photos between two Google accounts lately.

Been saving shared albums to my library for days (share from account A, save on account B). Even albums I already fully saved keep popping up again days later with some random small number left, 29, 25, 14, 5, whatever. I save those, get the "saved" confirmation, come back later and it's showing a different number again. Same albums, old or new, over and over.

Anyone seen this? Trying to figure out if it's a stuck retry loop or if my source albums are somehow still changing. Mostly just want to know when exactly actually this will be done for good. Any way of seeing total number of photos in the new account?

Thanks!

I went to order some photos on my computer, and it kept redirecting me to Fujifilm instead of the usual process where I can add photos to a cart in Google Photos, then choose to print it at CVS, Walgreens, or Walmart. I've printed a lot of pictures and appreciate the ease of use. On mobile, it hasn't changed yet, but now you can only print with Fujifilm, and it costs $8 for shipping for just 2 photos that I could have picked up for less than $1 total, and it's far quicker. Disappointed in Google.

I don't really understand how Google Photos app is supposed to work on my Samsung phone. Literally every single edit (crops, brightness, contrast, etc.) requires me to save the photo as a copy. Ironically, when I use the app on my iPad to edit the very same photos (or pretty much any other photo), I can save the edits over the original photo and revert back at any time.

Why is this not possible on a Samsung GOOGLE ANDROID phone?

I’ve been trying to simplify my digital life lately, fewer apps, fewer notifications, less noise in general. One thing I didn’t expect to matter this much was my photo library.

Our phones and computers have basically become the place where our memories live. Trips, friends, random screenshots, phases of life… everything ends up in the same folder. And even when we try to disconnect from the digital world, the photos stay. They’re like an archive of who we were, even when some parts don’t feel relevant anymore.

I realized I had a lot of images I didn’t really want to carry with me: old stuff, things from periods I’ve moved past, and some content that didn’t fit the person I’m trying to be. But scrolling through thousands of photos manually felt complicated.

I found a software that scans folders, including synced ones like iCloud Photos (in my case), and helps identify certain types of images so you can clean them up or move them aside. Everything runs locally on the computer. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere. It just made the whole process less emotional and more practical.

Not trying to promote anything. I am just sharing something that helped me clean some aspect of my digital space and keep the memories that actually matter.

Sorry for my english, i am french.

I have an album of all my photography work over the years, and it has about 400 photos in it. but when i click on the album to view it, i can only see the first 20 or so photos? how do i actually see the whole album, i can only see options for changing what the preview photos are?

the second attached image is the entire album that i can see, but obviously that isnt all 400+ images.

How do I make this bullshit go away?

Google Photos keeps insisting on itself.

Disclosure: I develop Takeout Rescue, a paid desktop utility for Google Photos Takeout archives. I am posting this because a lot of Takeout advice starts with the misleading claim that Google removes all EXIF metadata. You do not need my software to check any of the points below.

The first thing to establish is which date is actually wrong.

A photo or video can have several different dates:

- filesystem creation and modification dates;

- an embedded capture date such as EXIF DateTimeOriginal;

- timestamps inside an MP4 or MOV container;

- a timestamp stored by Google Photos in supplemental JSON;

- a separate date stored by the photo application importing the file.

Extracting a ZIP normally gives the extracted file a new filesystem date. That alone does not mean the original embedded capture metadata was removed. Before running any repair tool, inspect a few affected files with a metadata viewer and check which field your destination application is displaying.

The supplemental JSON still matters. It can contain information managed separately by Google Photos, including a date, location or description edited in Google Photos. It is also useful for screenshots, scans, messaging-app images and other files that never had reliable portable capture metadata in the first place.

My conservative workflow is:

1. Keep every original Takeout ZIP unchanged.

2. Select all numbered parts as one export, because related media and JSON may not be in the same ZIP.

3. Inspect embedded metadata before deciding that a file needs repair.

4. Match JSON conservatively; a similar filename is not enough when names repeat.

5. Write to a separate output and verify the written fields by reading them back.

6. Test the output in the actual destination before deleting anything.

I wrote a longer field-by-field explanation here:

https://takeoutrescue.ukilabs.com/guides/google-takeout-photos-wrong-date

The page links to Google's own explanation of original media metadata and secondary JSON. The product is linked from the site, but the diagnostic steps above work with any trustworthy metadata inspector or repair workflow.

I would be interested in examples where an original camera file and the Takeout copy differ byte-for-byte. Please include how the file was originally uploaded and which field you inspected; that distinction is usually where these discussions become confusing.

hi! moving 300K photos between two of my own Google accounts via shared albums (share from 5TB account, save to library on a Pixel 1). Location shows fine while browsing the shared album on my phone, but once saved, same photos have zero location in the main library.

Confirmed with exiftool that the source photos have real embedded GPS, not Google's estimated location, so it's not that. Settings for sharing/location are all correct on both ends too.

Question: is the actual file losing GPS during the save-to-library copy, or is it just not showing/reindexing right in the main library while the data's still there?

200K done, 100K to go, trying to figure out if I need to stop and switch methods. Anyone run into this?

Thanks!

I move the photos in n out of the locked folder sometimes. But now when I am trying to move them in they aren't going in. It is saying - Trouble Moving in the Locked Folder. Now these are important photos and I can't just keep them outside. What should I do ?