No more laborious cleaning of Google Drive and photos saved (sometimes by mistake) on your smartphone. Google Photos now makes it easy to do this, initially on iOS, and soon on Android.
If you use Google Photos, you must have come across a pop-up offering to preserve your memories in the cloud. This option is one of the great strengths of the application, as it is simple to set up.
However, the reverse maneuver is not the most intuitive and mainly leads to deleting the backups both on Google servers and on your smartphone. This then requires you to go through the application’s web portal to do so without the risk of losing everything. A wound we could do without.
Fortunately, things are changing, and for the better. Spotted for several months by Android Authoritya new feature allows you to easily delete your photos in the cloud. To find it, simply go to the “ Photos app settings ”, then in “ Backup ”, and finally click on “ Cancel backup for this device ».
This allows you to delete copies stored in the cloud without touching the originals on your smartphone. Be careful though, photos saved from devices other than the one from which the option is activated are not affected. A good idea, which allows you to avoid doing the irreparable and delete your entire photo library in a few clicks.
Deployment on iOS now, and later on Android
While this feature will be useful for many users, it should especially be appreciated by those who have chosen another solution to save their memories. Unfortunately for them, it is quite common to start backing up an entire photo library on Google’s servers by mistake. Photos regularly displays the pop-up offering to do so, and the option to refuse it is not the most readable.
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At least that’s my case, and my few gigabytes available with the free Google One plan are filled with these accidentally uploaded photos and videos. This Photos update will therefore be saving, but some of its users will have to wait a little before having access to it. Indeed, the Mountain View firm is initially deploying it on iOS, and Android should only follow suit in the days or weeks to come.
