Questions tagged [google-photos]
Google Photos is a service for managing all of your photos, introduced May 29,2015. This tag is for questions about the web version of the app.
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How to free up space in Google Storage
My google storage recently filled up, mostly because of google photos. I deleted some things in drive and freed up a couple gb, which was somewhat mysteriously used up again within about a week. Since ...
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How can I exclude shared items from my Google Photos?
Recently someone shared their Google Photos with me and now my timeline is full of theirs and it's really irksome. How could I make https://photos.google.com/ display only my photos?
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A better photos/backup management strategy?
(I'm not sure this is the right stackexchange site to ask this question, if I'm wrong please tell me.)
My current backup strategy for all important files (documents, photos, videos, music, scripts, ...
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Can I automatically add photos and videos that conform to certain conditions to a shared album in Google Photos?
The conditions that I'm talking about would be something like:
photoOrVideo.cameraName == "Apple iPhone X" && photoOrVideo.contains("My friend")
Google Photos is already set up to be able to ...
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I need to delete a Gmail account but don't want my photos associated with that account to be lost
I have three email accounts. I need to delete one that has been found on the dark web. Most of my photos are associated with this account as well as a few games that I am very far on. How can I save ...
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What's the difference between an album, animation, collage & photo book?
I am confused by the technical differences. When to use what exactly?
Appreciate any guidance!
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Sync some deletions to google photos from iPhone
I frequently take redundant photos without deleting them. Yesterday, I was on Apple Photos deleting all the redundant ones on my phone. I did this all the way to February, deleting about half the ...
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How to delete a shipping address in Google Photos (photo book)?
When ordering a photo book within Google Photos, the address is obviously stored in their website.
However, as it seems there is no option to delete an incorrect address. Or not even to edit an ...
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How to show all my private Google Photos on a map?
Sometimes I remember places but not the time when I have taken a photo. Thus it would be super helpful to have all my Google Photos available on a map with location.
Then I could go to a certain ...
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How to move Google Photos albums from one account to another?
I have multiple free Google Photos accounts and I'd like to consolidate them all into a single paid account.
I found a way to move photos from one account to another (basically make a partner account,...
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How can I insert a video from Google Photos into an email using Gmail?
Composing an email in Gmail, I can insert photos from Google Photos as attachments or links easily.
But videos in my Google Photos account do not show in the list of media... is there a way to share a ...
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How do I save a photo including location from a shared album or even see the location?
Google seems to be removing the location from all photos from others in shared albums. Is there any way to get this data back?
I don't see the location in the web UI
I downloaded the album from the ...
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When I share a photo album with others is there a way that other viewers will seen the facial identifications that have already been made?
I have a photo album in which each face has been identified, but when I share the album with others, they cannot see the identification of the faces that I already made. Is there a way for them to see ...
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Google photos link sharing: private or public
I just posted this on the Google product support forum, but I might receive more feedback here.
What I wonder is whether Google photos would detect and stop brute force album share link discovery ...
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Is it possible to use Google Lens from the desktop version of Google Photos?
I frequently use the Google Photos application on my Android phone, where I make use of the Google Lens feature there. Right now I'm managing my photos from the Google Photos web application in ...
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Is there any way to automatically upload things to Google Photos but NOT Google Drive?
I'm using Google's Backup and Sync tool to automatically save photos from my hard drive onto the cloud. The problem is that I want my photos to go into Google Photos but NOT into Google Drive. In ...
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How to create video collage movie with 4k video with Google Photos?
Google Photos 4k Video Bug? By design?
I have hundreds of videos shot in 4k 60fps. I've upgraded my Google One account to a paid account and each individual video I upload shows up in 4k. However, ...
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Syncing Google Photos to Google Drive?
Google previously had a way of having a Google Photos folder in Google Drive. So that anything say automatically synced into Google Photos would be shown in Google Drive. But recently (2019), they ...
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Google Photos keeps redirecting to about page
Why when I type https://photos.google.com or https://photos.google.com/ in my address bar in Chrome (and while I'm logged into Google) does it keep redirecting me to https://photos.google.com/about ...
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Is there a way to find out which photos are taking up space in Google Photos?
I need to recover space due to 1.53 GB of photos taking up my google drive quota. However, before I go ahead and compress these photos using the recover space tool, I want to know which photos I am ...
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How can I automatically sync deleted photos between my desktop and Google Photos?
Now that Google has decoupled Google Photos and Google Drive, Photos no longer syncs with my desktop Mac. Whereas before, deleting an image from the web app/Finder also removed that image from the ...
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Location data missing from live photos downloaded from Google Photos
I am having an issue with the location data missing from live photos downloaded from Google Photos. The photos are a mix of still shots and live shots however only the live shots are missing the ...
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Is it safe now to delete the Google Photos folder from Drive?
Starting in July 2019, Google Photos and Google Drive are no longer synced. That's great.
I still have a Google Photos folder in my Drive, and I understand that's expected. But I can't find any ...
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Why do pictures of my Leaf dash display get tagged in Budapest
I take pictures of my Leaf dashboard display to monitor my miles-per-KWH. I recently uploaded to Google Photos all photos from my iPhone SE (running IOS 12.3.1).
The Leaf display photos have been ...
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How will Google Photos handle Apply Photos folder structure during sync?
I have over 200GB of photos stored on my mac and it's time to move everything to Google Photos. I have over 15 years of photos stored and many of the older images have little metadata associated with ...
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Connect Google Photos to Google Drive
Google Drive Settings list an option to "Create a Google Photos folder." Checking it proposes to "Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive." I want to do this, but whenever I ...
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Where is the “Import from Drive” button in Google Photos
Since July 10th, Google is claiming that there will be an "Import from Drive" option in Google Photos.
I don't see it. Is it available yet?
The release log from "Backup & Sync" mentions July ...
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How to synchronize picture deletion from computer with the new Google Photos
From their website, it is mentioned that pictures deleted from computer will no longer be deleted from Google Photos.
It seems to be an evil way to force people to use exclusively the Google Photo ...
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Which Google Photos are not on my device?
I have Google Photos app on my phone set up so that every picture I take with my phone ends up also on Google Photos online. Sometimes, however, it asks me if I want to free up space on my phone by ...
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How to synchronize deletions between Google Photos web and Android app?
I have Google Photos syncing with my laptop and my phone Android app.
If I create photos on my Android Photos app, they are synced to the Photos website and to my laptop.
If I delete photos from ...
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Is there a way to organize the photos in Google photos besides creating albums manually?
I have a bunch of folders on my Android. I've selected multiple photos to backup to Google photos.
However, I notice that everything gets backed up into one common folder. This is very messy. All my ...
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Is there a way to force Google Photos to recognize new faces?
I have "Face grouping" enabled in my Google account and I can see around 10 faces successfully tagged when I go to my Albums. However, there's a lot of other people who are not tagged, as well as some ...
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Renaming images in Google Photos
How can I rename an image in Google Photos? From the web browser, I can add a description, but when I download the image, it uses the original file name. I need a real rename which changes the name ...
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How to control the order of images displayed within a Google Photo Album?
I want to be able to control the order of the images that are displayed in a Photo Album. I do not want them to be displayed vertically as well. The use-case is to upload scanned images one by one ...
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How can google drive access videos from google photos?
I wanted to upload some videos with live thumbnails on my blog such that the viewer can easily be able to reach that particular video that he wanted to see even without getting the video fully opened ...
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Is it possible to exact search Google photos by filename?
I would like to search Google photos images by their filename but I have a problem when two photos were taken at the same time and therefore their filenames and pretty similar - e.g., 20190430_092841....
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Why isn't “info” icon in Google Photos showing up for me?
I created a link to share a photo in Google Photos. When I view this photo under my own account I see an "info" button (an "i" with a circle around it) that I can click to see things like when the ...
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Show detected faces in Google Photos
Google photos knows about the people in pictures, and can give me a list of pictures every person appears in. When a picture is chosen as the default profile picture for a person, it knows how to ...
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Do Google Photos' images take up quota when appearing in Google Drive's Google Photos folder?
In the following scenario:
Google Photos is set to "high quality", i.e. not included in quota
Google Drive always seems to take quota for media
Google Drive is set to show Google Photos
Will images ...
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Is a shared Google Photos album publicly searchable?
I'd like to share a Google Photos album only with one person and allow them to view and edit the album, but I do NOT want the album or any photos to come up in search results. I saw that the only way ...
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How can I find pictures in Google Photos in which multiple people that I specify appear together?
I know how to use Google Photos to find pictures which have a given person in them, for example showing pictures of "Christopher" or "Michael".
How can I find pictures in Google Photos in which ...
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How To Edit Title Caption?
I am unable to edit a title caption on photos I posted in Google Shared Photos. Is there a way to edit the title caption?
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Migrating from flickr to google photos
With flickr putting the kibosh on unlimited photos with the free account I'm wondering if there is a known automated way to migrate thousands of photos from my flickr account to google photos. I've ...
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Prevent Receiving from Google Photos
When photos are shared from Google Photos, if the recipient is a Gmail user, they are by default shared through Google Photos rather than email to the Gmail account. Is there any way to prevent people ...
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Choose which photos in Google Photos to change from Original to High quality
I want to save some space in my Google storage.
For Google Photos, I am using Original quality, which counts against my 15Gb quota.
I know I can Recover storage, which changes all photos from ...
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Is Google+ takeout including photos and videos already in my Google Photos app?
Since Google+ is about to close, I downloaded the takeout files. What called my attention is that the files downloaded are huge, 2GB and 0.6GB. I searched for one or two videos included in the takeout ...
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Google Drive and Google photos (delete from Drive without losing them on Photos)
All of my photos are on Google photos. They are stored using the free space with Google's quality rather than the original quality. There is a folder on my Google Drive that is called "Google Photos". ...
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Counting files from either Photo or Drive App
The goal is to download all photos stored on Google: then verify that all photos are downloaded with a file count.
Photos were synced / backedup with Google-Photos. The procedure to use Google-...
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In Google Photos, how share (or copy) entire Favorites album?
Unlike other albums, the share icon isn't present in the upper right when the album is open. Is there a way to share it?
Alternately, if I could copy the album as it exists now, then I could share ...
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Deleting photo from a desktop folder synced with Drive Backup and Sync deletes from Google Photos?
I have found what I believe is a bug in Google Photos and Google Backup and Sync.
UPDATE: I got this tweet from Google which basically answers the question, though I think it's still unintuitive at ...
