Google Photos: Backup & Edit

The app is useless without full access and then displays all the random pics from my phone on top of my Library. Crazy.

I mean, how can you revert the settings to default after update? Thats really stupid. And why does the emails share the same storage partition as photos app in the cloud storage and suddenly i cant receive important email. Get it together google.

The most atrocious backup system. The fact that it is a one way sync app is annoyingly horrendous. Some like it but I despise it. Also, the fact that there is no function that makes it easy to delete duplicates like icloud photos; is a big reason to stay away. Idk how yall enjoy this app. Most frustrating app of the century.

Just do a simple search online and you’ll see all the negative reviews from everyone. Please read before downloading: HUGE privacy concerns as the app requires you to allow access to all photos for some reason, even when you just want to edit a few stored photos that you’ve already off loaded to their cloud, there’s no reason to require us to allow access to all photos especially when the photo is no longer on our devices. Second major issue is even after so many years the albums still don’t sync. You organise the photos in your albums, close the app and open it again and all the photos are no longer sorted in the order you spent HOURS on. Third issue is how they constantly try and trick you into backing up your entire phone album to the cloud just so you would run out of space and purchase more cloud storage. One wrong click and suddenly you’re out of storage space because you accidentally turned backup on due to their calculated design into tricking you. Worst part is if you want to delete your backup they’ll start deleting the ACTUAL PICTURES on your device. No one is working on this app anymore, nothing has been done to improve any aspects of this app for years, other than pushing for you to purchase their storage upgrades, and requiring you to give up more of your privacy for no known reasons. Do not download.

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“Backing up…” infinitely

It has been more than a year since a bug i reported was acknowledged. Unfortunately googles worst support and engineering teams have been beating around the bush since then with no fix. Every o quarter i ask them for an update and they ask me to provide exact same details everytime and then they disappear until the next time i ask them again this has been ongoing for more than a year now and i am on there paid plan suffering this bad behaviour. Unfortunately I have decided to discontinue using Google and get tortured by them.

Cloud symbol when photo is backed up gone! Now don’t know which is backed up and which is not.

1. Take away user choice in deciding what to back up. 2. Mix both their locally saved images and camera photos into a single compliation, effectively burning up the storage space 3. Tell the user in the most blatant move ever: “Hey! We realize you’re running out of storage space!! Buy our additional storage service!” Thanks, but no thanks.

What the heck?! I tried to upload a file from Google Photos to my iPhone (Photos) but the file name changed to a previous name i used, but i want to keep the new name NOT THE OLD ONE!