It appears every few times I open the app and the usual android back button doesn’t make it go away, and there is no cancel button. What you have to do is toggle the toggle, then the button will change to “do not back up” and then you can press it. It annoys me how easy this makes it to accidentally turn on backup.
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I used this feature for the longest time back when Photos storage didn’t count towards your free 15 GB if you used the compressed option. And then they went and made it so everything counted towards your 15 GB, no matter what quality you were backing up at, and suddenly my account was using too much storage space to keep receiving email. I go into Google Photos to clear out some of the largest pictures and videos to get a few gigabytes back, and it tells me that if I do that it’s going to also delete those photos stored locally on my phone. So now Google Photos is uninstalled because if I ever let it back on my phone it’s going to delete all my pictures.
Yeah, I had a photo album back when I regularly used Photos, and for some reason the photos would be backed up and the older ones would stop loading on my device? Which was a problem as I don’t have any cellular data. It still happens for some reason, even though I no longer have backup enabled.
Google also has an app called just Gallery which didn’ty pull this crap.
I was surprised to find ads in my phone and realized it’s shitty google again… Of course.
You can go into notification settings and turn off all notifications for this app, and problem solved.
Honestly I’m done with Google Photos, I mean I get that it was free and that I shouldn’t complain about that, but I already pay with my privacy, so why pay money and have my data abused everywhere I go?
I now have a home server (second hand mac mini m2) with PhotoPrism installed
I was feeling smug that being on LineageOS and now GrapheneOS for almost a decade I’ve never seen this.
…then I remembered my fucking iMac seemed to turn on iCloud photo backup last week after updating and next thing I know all the obsolete iPads I get from work are telling me how my iCloud storage is full
Seriously this iCloud shit is on by default, predatory ass tech companies. I’m pretty sure I disabled it on that iMac but it’s so possible that my own device can gaslight me that I’m left unsure. It’s off now and I spent an afternoon removing all those photos.
I recently picked up an iPhone as a secondary device, pretty much immediately disabled iCloud and installed Mobius (Syncthing) so the photos get sync’ed over to my fairphone’s SD card.
Now i’m second guessing whether it’s actually disabled, or if I’m going to get an iCloud full warning in a couple of months…
It’s ridiculous, its enabled by default on any new device you set up and sign in to. I could have missed turning off iCloud on my iMac, but I didn’t have any problems before updating it, and then after I updated it I had iCloud full notifications, so I’m pretty sure it was off.
Rapist mentality
Why would you use Google photos as your gallery if you’re not using the backup feature? It’s like the only reason to use it over a different gallery.
This is auto backup of a certain folder. You may not want every photo you take. I turn it off so I can manually select them.
it’s the other way around. you turn on auto backup and turn off specific folders. it doesn’t ask you to turn them on.
no it’s not, it’s for the entire device
I’m always conflicted on this kind of thing, because for every person annoyed that it’s asking there’s a bunch that are complaining that they lost all their photos because their phone was stolen or something like that, and had no idea that they need to backup their stuff.
I didn’t realize that I had turned it on on my prior phone. Welp, my phone absolutely died one day and would no longer power on. I was really sad about losing my photos and videos, but then when I got my new phone I was happy to find out that at some point I turned on photos cloud backups.
Having a notice that doesn’t occupy the whole screen and can be dismissed temporarily or permanently is a much better and less predatory solution to this problem. This isn’t looking out for the end user, this is urging them into a system where the host can profit off of the user’s data, that also happens to provide a benefit to the user.
Maybe, the average user really doesn’t understand backups though and would be more likely to ignore it then.
That’s too bad for them, but at a certain point, people should be expected to have some level of understanding of the technology they are using. Giving people the information via a highly visible yet unobtrusive notification is more than enough to guide people that don’t understand. If they decide not to follow the clear instructions then that’s on them.
It’s kind of like no child left behind. In theory, it’s a good idea to make sure everyone is in a good position for success, but it’s not good in execution because it negatively impacts more than it helps.
Ran into this asshole the other day, got me because I needed to show someone a contact card for them to scan. Fucking google.
There are open source alternatives to Google photos, a good example which uses material 3 (you) is fossify photos
fossify photos
Yeah, forgot the name
Yeah I use aves, it is much nicer then Google photos, but photos has a locked folder so I use it occasionally
I tried to install aves but as I opened it, it told me “this app doesn’t support the latest Android version” or something, so I just uninstalled. 🫤
You must have installed it from the wrong place, you can get the latest versions from fdroid.
Huh.
I installed “aves” from Droid-ify. That’s the one that I described.
When searching for aves through F-droid Basic, I got only the Aves Libre as a result. Installing that and opening it doesn’t result in any Android version warning. 👍
Thanks!
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Asshole Google is doing asshole things. Before switching to Lineage OS this thing annoyed me so much. A few days ago I saw this prompt when using my father’s phone and I couldn’t believe that this thing is still happening. Google is so stubborn.
100% asshole design to fill up cloud storage and taking gmail “hostage” - pay for google one or all your emails will bounce back
I believe they want to process photos and videos to train their AI.
That was in the past, it was the reason they gave free unlimited backups. Now that they have enough data, once everyone got hooked to it, they enshittened the shit out of it
Toggle the toggle?
Toggle the switch?
Toggle the toggle switch
Next you guys will tell me you need to itch an itch.
Disable the network access to the app.
google’s android camera app is designed to open google’s gallery app. Google built an OS that has support for user selected app launching. They built a system that lets an app request the user’s preferred gallery app to view photos, but then chose to not use it to force anyone using google’s camera to also use their photos app. fuck google
Was super disappointed to figure this out after installing a different gallery. And AFAIK, there’s no alternative camera app that actually works properly, either.
I’ve always liked Open Camera. Of course YMMV depending on your device.
I use Open Camera on my device, there are some very rare instances where it shows an obscure error saying it can’t find a gallery app. Most of the time though it opens Fossify Gallery just fine
I’m rooted and Google Photos was removed from my device before a single photo was taken, so never seen or heard even a peep from it
Ya, ran into this one recently. Had to install gcam instead of stock camera on my OnePlus just so I can use alternative gallery. Android is not truly open source project anymore.
And then if u try using alternative roms - half the cameras your phone has and banking apps are not going to work - Google intentionally castrated the functionality like this.
Can you tap outside the popup to make it go away? Or maybe swipe it down? Agree that Back should be enough, how annoying!
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No, you cannot.
Ugh.
It used to be even more annoying. Until a couple of months ago, after you tapped the No option, it would bring you to a full-screen screen where it asked you to select specific photos you’d like to backup anyways.
I know, and then they did switch over and you got both popups for a bit.
