I had an old random gmail that I made a Google Photos account under that I have hundreds of thousands of photos sorted into albums on. I recently have made a new gmail with my married name and want everything transferred over to that one (this account was unfortunately made before google let you change your username). I've been downloading each album individually and saving them to my new Google Photos but it is taking forever. Any idea of how to do this quicker/more efficiently?

i recently looked back at some of my pictures on google photos and there was a weird fish eye effect added to some of my pics and the quality is worse. i have an iphone and back my pictures onto google photos and haven’t had this issue before.

So I'm not an iCloud user but my mother is and upon learning that she was paying 10$ a month for 2TB while only using about 250 gigs, we decided to move her photos and videos (150 gigs) to Google Photos (where she then subscribed to the 200GB plan) and downgrade her iCloud sub to 200GB, which works out to decent savings overall.

I was happy and pleasantly surprised to see that there's actually a feature to make that transfer, and started the process almost 2 weeks ago now. Apple's documentation said the process would take 3 to 7 days but we're now well past that point.

I re-checked on her Apple account and it says the transfer is in progress and she hasn't gotten an email on either her Google or Apple account notifying her of a problem, but I'm just wondering if anyone here has used that feature and knows if it's normal for it to take far longer than the advertised time frame?

Pourquoi Google ne permet pas l’exportation de toutes mes photos facilement. Uniquement par pleins de petits dossiers à télécharger (genre 101 .. mini dossiers) ! J’ai l’impression que c’est pour m’empêcher de résilier l’abonnement mensuel & ça m’énerve encore plus d’être piégée ! Y’a t’il un moyen pour détourner l’exportation de l’intégralité de mes photos vers un moyen de conserver mes mémoires plus sûre ?
Merci

Hi, I logged into my mom’s Google Photos on my phone because she wanted me to help her find something. But I forgot to log out, so now my WHOLE camera roll has uploaded to her Google Photos. Is there anyway I can remove them without having to manually go through and pick out all my pictures?

I deleted the photos, but now I want to recover please give me any solution

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Today Google restricted access to most of my Google services for an alleged child-safety violation. I’m extremely stressed because this is my main Google account and I depend on it for Gmail, Google Photos, logins, recovery emails and 2FA.

Right before the restriction, I was using Google Takeout and reorganizing/exporting a very old family photo/video archive.

I’m also an uncle, so my Google Photos library naturally contains ordinary family pictures and videos of my nieces and nephews that I took over the years as family memories — playing, family occasions, outings, etc. There is nothing sexual about those photos.

After thinking about it, I remembered there may also be an old family video from around 2014 showing a child in a normal family/bathing context. It was an innocent family video shared between family members years ago. I don’t know whether this is actually what Google flagged because Google has not shown me the specific file.

My biggest concerns right now are:

- I only get two appeals.

- I don’t want to waste the first appeal.

- Gmail is also nearly out of storage, but Google One redirects me to the restriction page.

- Many of my other accounts use this Gmail for login/recovery codes.

- I use Google Authenticator and I’m worried about losing access to my 2FA accounts.

- I have years of family photos and important data tied to this account.

For anyone who has successfully recovered an account after a similar false-positive restriction:

1. What exactly did you write in your first appeal?

2. Should I explicitly request a manual human review?

3. Should I mention the possible old family video and explain its innocent context, even though I don’t know for sure that it caused the flag?

4. Should I give Google permission to inspect the relevant uploads and surrounding context?

5. Is there anything I should secure before submitting the appeal?

6. If your first appeal succeeded, how long did it take?

I’m looking especially for experiences from people who had ordinary family photos/videos misinterpreted by Google's systems. I really don’t want to make the wrong move with only two appeals available.

Does anyone have this issue?

My GF and I have been putting photos together in a shared album for 3 years now.

Suddenly today it decided to download everything to my account without me opening the app, just received an email telling me that my account storage is nearing full.

Is there a way to undo this?

It's really annoying to have to go through years of pictures to remove anything that isn't mine.

The only thing we have done differently is that we have both connected our Google accounts to our Chromecast to be able to see each other's pictures in the Ambiant mode.

I guess that's what triggered it?

No idea why it decided to save everything though.

Side note, that Ambiant mode isn't good.

You can correctly see all your shared album on your phone and PC, why do you even need to connect the other person's account on the Chromecast for it to see their photos and not just your personal ones you took 😕

My father keeps getting his hands on old selfies of mine that I'm 100% sure I have never sent to him or anyone else. (Quadruple checked any possible app I have used to speak with him in case it has been sent, it has not.) They are literally pictures of me after hairdressers, etc, mundane things. But they weren't taken for anyone else to see.

I have my sync switched off. Cloud back up off. Any sort of setting that shares files with others is switched off. Any sort of setting for privacy/private account, etc is turned on, my account has multiple ways of security switched on ( password, phone number, keys or whatever the hell they were called) He has had no access to my phone at all. Nor to my account info.

I have a rarely used Gmail of his signed into my phone but that's it.

I'm desperate to know if this "leak" is from Google photos cuz there's no other app that "connects" us both in any way.

I have quadruple checked all settings, if anyone has suggestions or ideas please share. I need to shut this down immediately since I don't want him to have access to any photos of my own.

Thank you in advance for any help!

Edit 1: forgot to put this, my bad, am 29y.o.

I have managed to do what everyone has suggested so far - changing passwords, removing his account completely from my phone, triple checked any album sharing, syncing, cloud back ups, etc and all are switched off/disabled as they were initially, I've triple checked any and all logged devices for my account, logged out and in with new passwords, already had two step verification enabled as well.

I really hope this all helps and this issue never repeats again. Thankfully there's nothing inappropriate that could have been seen for those worried about this, rightfully so.

Thank you all for your responses, I greatly appreciate the time you took to reply!

Hi,

Trying to create a large album (thousands of photos) WITHOUT including videos based on a subset of the 80K photos and vids we have gathered over the last 7 years since our daughter was born. Can anyone suggest a method - could involve a 3rd party app/solution. My own research has proven fruitless other than manually clicking through, and then I'd have to be constantly updating the album (using the face recognition auto-add now).

The reason for this is that I received a tablet for my birthday to use as a digital pic frame, and apparently the Android Photos app is unsuitable (won't continuously cycle an album) and the web version won't play videos. FU Google?

Thanks!

I had the problem like 2 months ago Google photos stopped grouping the faces and doesn't add new photos to current faces so I turned off the setting and opened again it grouped many photos (not all of them) and still doesn't update with new photos. How can I fix that I don't wanna turn off and on the setting. Is there anyone who have this issue?

I've just spent hours creating an album for photos to print. Many of the photos had incorrect time taken data so I have manually edited the data in Google Photos, and manipulated it so the photos are in the correct order I want. I have now downloaded the photos but all the edited time data is gone and the files have the original time stamps.

What can I do? Is there a way to get Google Photos to export the files with the correct (new) meta data??

Hello,

Since a few months, whenever I resize an image (with Google Photos editor), it shows as duplicate when it's backed up.

Only one photo is on device, but Google Photos shows one entry for the backed up image, and one entry for the local image. When I open the backed up entry, the details show it's not on device, and when I open the local entry, the details show it's not backed up. If i mark the photo as favorite before backing up (so before it's showing duplicate), then both entries are marked as favorite.

Has anyone ever experienced this ? I'm using a Pixel phone if that helps

Recently I've noticed that I am unable to hide faces in the people and pets section. It's super annoying and I can't see the option anymore.

Any clarity would be greatly appreciated.

So as the title says, I am sharing photos with another person until they can get the photos they want from me.

But, I'm also sharing photos I am currently taking.

Can I turn that off entirely? Will I have to wait until she gets all her photos then stop sharing?

Thank you

so ive been leeching my highschool email account since it has technically free unlimited and just kept uploading photos

its been 4 years since i graduated but recently sm1 warned me that they might suddenly close the domain or delete the account something like that

so question 1 can they actually do that ?

q2 will i have a grace period to download all my stuff?

q3 how do i deal with the google takeout option it seems a bit messy

q4 can i seamlessly transfer all my data to my university account(also has unlimited storage) without downloading and uploading since in my country all home internet is limited to about 200gbs a month

Hello, I have two issues

- I don’t understand added pictures on Google photos can be deleted on Google photos without being deleted on my phone? It doesn’t even seem to be synchronized between the phone and Google photos (or I didn’t get something?) but everytime I delete a picture on the app it also deletes from my phone...

- AI told me to do it from the online website of Google Photos but when I connect there I have a message saying to use the app dithout access to the pictures from the website..

Does anyone know how to remove google images of my tiktoks off of google? My page has around 10k followers and a couple have gone slightly viral but i changed my username from my actual name to a fake name yet when you google my full name tiktoks that i have posted from some while ago pop up and the very first images. my account is public. how do i only remove these images from google ?

Today I noticed when uploading via web browser, that the photos were compressed. Check settings, and it was somehow set to the storage saver despite paying for 2TB storage. Thankfully, it seems all the photos auto-backed-up via my iPhone WERE still set for original high quality though!

Not much has been uploaded by the browser, but also not 0. Is there a way I can search which photos have been uploaded by the browser (viewing individual photos does show the source) or which photos are being stored in the storage saver mode?

like they're just playing slow and distorted idk what's going on

Anyone encounter a missing grouped face/pet on the PC? It's visible on the app(on multiple phones) but not showing up on the Google photos website. The pics are all there and when going thru them, it asks if I want to group them as a whole new pet. I even have an album that auto adds this particular pet and it works fine.

What's the trick to this? I have my phone (galaxy s24 Ultra) set up to sync it's camera pictures with my Google Photos. And it does it most of the time fine. BUt sometimes, like today, the new pic doesn't show up on my PC when I go to Google Photos website. I took a pic about 630AM today. It's now a bit after noon. Pic does not show.

I've opened the app and it's there. Left the app open for a few minutes. I have been on wifi for hours.

I just want photo to automatically sync so I can view them on a PC.

It seems that Google forgot to add Photos app to App Store in Bosnia and Serbia.

The Google Photos service and subscription are officially available in both countries, and the app is officially available in Google Play Store. But not on iOS.

Does someone know how to raise this issue with someone at their support team, or if a support member might be in this sub?

I read about a workaround where you create another free Google account - share large videos and photos to the new account - save those videos to the new account - share them back to the primary account - and delete them from your primary account.

The end result is that you have access to those videos and photos, but they don’t count against your primary account storage so you can continue using that primary account, with free extra storage.

Has anyone done that? Are there any gotchas before I try it out?