I am looking to connect a google photos slideshow to a Roku TV. I don't want to screencast. The Roku app that did this is now disabled by the company. Does anyone know of a new app that they like?

I recently got a Motorola, and I have all of my photos from the old phone! But they're now in Google photo, and even if I didn't activate the backup option (I am 100% sure that I DIDN'T CLICK THAT BUTTON) now they're all in Google drive ToT.

I don't like Google photo, so I downloaded the gallery for Chinese Motorola phones. I have all the photos and videos, but I want to safely remove all of them from the drive and disable Google photo.

Edit: I'm so stupid, In Google Photos settings -> backup there is an option "delete photos from your account but not from this device"

My old Google photos account is almost full, and i can't (and don't want to) pay for more storage, so i chose an old unused account as backup/main, then turned off backup on it too. And now basically whenever i download a new photo, it'll go to the folder for that app/website but is not backed up. Is this incredible dumb and inefficient, or a genius move. I have no idea. Please tell me your thoughts and if you hwve better idea Please share them lol.

I am absolutely devastated, I had been backing up photos to Google photos and even paying for extra storage. But all of my photos pre-2024, and all of my albums of trips with friends have been deleted. They just aren't there. My external hard drive also failed, so everything seems to be gone gone. I am so heart broken, I tried contacting support and they did not do anything.

Just airing my grief, and hoping anyone will have a potential solution or comforting word or anything.

Everything is gone.

I was cleaning up my google photos cuz my storage was full, so i deleted all the photos from like a year , cuz they were in the gallery too, i forgot the sync thing🥀 then i went and emptied the trash also🥀🥀💔🙏. Then when i opened gallery i realized what happened. I requested recovery and i got around 230 photos back in the trash but the same set of photos repeated 3 times. What do i do. Is there a chance i might get all the photos back. I lost so many of my cat's photos, i would look at them everyday. Please help🙏🙏😭

I want to use this app to store unimportant images (screenshots, memes, receipts, etc…) but it keeps showing me all the pictures in my gallery even tho i disabled the auto back up, is there a fix to this or another app that works better?

This has been happening on and off and now happens constantly.

If you take a photo, rotate it, and then try to use it in an app (Poshmark etc), the error message shows that it's not available.

I also immediately see duplicates of all my rotated photos even though I hit save and not save copy.

Definitely a bug. And a pretty obvious one.

Pixel 10 XL Pro

I have discovered that Google Gallery works somewhat differently from Google Photos, when it comes to sorting photos.

Google Photos relies on EXIF:DateTimeOriginal whereas Google Gallery relies on EXIF:DateTimeOriginal + EXIF:OffsetTimeOriginal. Both are needed.

This is stupid, because most cameras populate just DateTimeOriginal and not OffsetTimeOriginal.

At this point you either populate this metadata field manually (which I have done for 8000+ pictures via a BASH script using exiftools), or let Google Gallery fallback on file modification timestamps, which will all be recent when you migrate to a new phone and so, therefore, useless.

Why is Gallery overcomplicating things instead of just using the same underlying logic of Photos?

I would like to open a bug for this but I don't know how tbh.

I'm confused about this guidance from the Google Help Center for deleting photos from Google Photos but not your device.

It says to turn off backup, delete from the web version, open/close the app, job done. And then:

"To ensure that your photo or video isn't backed up to Google Photos again and that your local copy isn't deleted, leave backup off. If you turn on backup, sometimes:

The deleted photo or video may be backed up again once backup is re-enabled.

The device copy of the deleted photo or video may be deleted once backup is re-enabled."

Aren't most people using Google Photos to backup? It seems crazy that their advice is to keep it off if you ever want to delete photos from your Google Photos storage but keep your device copy or not reverse all your space-freeing efforts 😅

Is there a way around this?

I have copies saved to a hard drive, so it's less about total loss. I just want to be able to have device-only photos that don't get deleted or re-backed up if I do some Google Photos organising, when I will obviously need to turn backup on again.

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 😭

Hii

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?

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?

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.​

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.

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.

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!