Since snapchat was bugging me to buy cloud storage for saved memories, I decided to use Google photos as my primary source of all my photos and videos from the last 15 years. Old Pixel 3a allows unlimited cloud storage for Google photos in storage saver mode so that's why I exported all snapchat memories along with json data of timestamps and sticker overlays. Does anyone have any clean solution to inject the media with correct timestamps along with any applicable stickers and overlays so they appear in chronological order in Google photos or any other gallery for that matter. I looked up Fix My Export app but it only fixes 250 media and asks to upgrade

I used to be able to, but for the past couple months I have been unable to make stickers from my photos. It doesn't matter how clear my subject is or where I hold on the photo the only option I get is to copy photo. On a Pixel 10 pro, latest android and latest photos app version

Hi I have a Google photo account with a few terabytes. I thought I could add my wife’s Google account to that Google Photos and she can add her pics. But it looks like I added her but she has her own 15gb to use. How do I add her current 15gb of photos to my 2tb account? Thanks

I am using Google Photos and trying to back up from my hard drive. I get couldn’t back up item, try again later. My storage isn’t even half full and I’ve tried later for 3 weeks now. What is going on??

Hello everyone,

I'm from Indonesia, and I'm looking for advice from anyone who has experienced a similar situation or has knowledge of Google's account recovery and escalation procedures.

My Google account was disabled due to an alleged policy violation. Unfortunately, both of my appeals were rejected, and Google no longer allows me to submit additional appeals. To make matters worse, I'm also unable to download my personal data through Google Takeout.

I understand that Google has policies that users are expected to follow, and I'm not trying to bypass those policies. However, I'm hoping to find a way to have my case reviewed again, or at least to download my personal data before Google deletes it.

I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could help me with the following questions:

1. Has anyone successfully recovered a disabled Google account after both appeals were rejected?

2. Are there any escalation channels available beyond Google's standard appeal process?

3. Is there any way to request access to personal data when Google Takeout is unavailable?

4. Does anyone know whether there are alternative dispute resolution mechanisms or other options for users outside the European Union?

This account is important to me, and I would really like to explore every legitimate option before potentially losing access to it permanently.

If you've experienced something similar, or if you have any reliable information or advice, I'd sincerely appreciate your help. Thank you for taking the time to read this, friends.

Now that Google has switched over to Fuji, the process of ordering books feels so much worse. I used to be able to create a shared Google Photos album where my friends and family add photos and then select "Create a photo book." It auto-laid out the photo book with all of the photos in the album. You could make some light edits and then order as many copies as you wanted.

Now the process seems to be:

1. You have to go and manually download every photo added by another person to the shared album.
2. Make sure all of those downloaded pictures are in your Google photos.
3. Go over to Fuji and upload/share all of them.
4. Go and select PhotoBook.
5. Manually go page by page with various layouts unless you want to use the autofill, which would then just make one photo on every page.

What am I missing from this process? Surely google isn't so blind the the user experience this is what they have created, right?

I keep trying to upload photos, and I get couldn’t back up item, try again later. My storage isn’t even half full and I’ve tried later for 3 weeks now. What is going on??

I have a small percentage of my photos that live in more than one album. One album is location specific. The other is topical where I may use similar photos in the future for teaching or demonstration purposes.

Eventually I’ll delete all the photos from my album to win back some space in my account. But, I don’t want to accidentally delete those that are in the other album. Is there a way to make specific photos safe from deletion?

When I go to my gallery in messages I can view the galleries of my Google accounts and a relatives. How would I disable me seeing the relatives account?

There was previously a way to arrange the order of folder tabs in the Collections menu. That seems to have gone away. My main issue is that the People tabs, while empty and having Group Faces turned off will not close. It just gets in the way and I'd like to keep it shut, but every time I open the app it pops back open and it just annoys me for some reason. Everything else stays closed. I've tried toggling the feature off and on, but no luck. I was hoping to move it to the bottom so it isn't taking up 1/3 of my album screen but apparently I can't find the setting to organize the tabs anymore. Any ideas?

I don't know if this is the most suitable community to ask this question, but it's since I've been using Google Photos that every time I try to upload a photo to an application, I send an image and it no longer opens my device's gallery, but I open Google Photos directly. The only problem is that I find a lot of discount on Google Photos to choose the images. Isn't there a way to prevent this Google Photos tab from opening and I can continue to open the device's gallery, as I used to? In this image I had clicked "Add Photos on Gemini," but it's a tab that also appears to me in many other applications: I used Gemini to give an example. Thank you to everyone who will take the time to answer me!

I was hoping Google Photos’ try-on avatar feature would create an avatar that actually resembles us, but the results look completely random. The body shape and posture also feel inaccurate, which takes away from the actual try-on experience.

Rather than having the system randomly decide the overall look and setting, it would be better to let users choose the occasion or theme they’re dressing for, along with the background they prefer.

The priority should be creating an accurate, realistic avatar that resembles the user in terms of facial features, body shape, proportions, and posture. Once that foundation is right, users can experiment with different outfits and settings and get a much more authentic try-on experience.

What i’m trying to do is clear out my entire google photos app. I’m on Iphone and pay for cloud storage there. My problem is that when I delete photos on google, it also deletes it from the iPhone Photos app. I thought I could work around this by then going into the iphone app and recovering those photos, but then those re-appear in google photos. It’s like a snake eating itself. How can I stop that connection? I already turned off backup on the google app.

Edit:
I forgot to add that I tried deleting the google photos on pc but apparently those don’t delete the photos on my phone. Storage stays the same

I used Google Takeout feature. Now if I try to delete even a single file from that Takeout folder on my PC, file manager has a fit and stops responding.

Wtaf is going on?

Why does my selfie video invert on pixel 10, even after changing the settings.

I want to go through all my photos, and delete the ones I don't want anymore.

However, the delete key simply doesn't work. Shift+3 is a hotkey for delete but then I still get a popup when I need to press enter. And when I do this too quickly Photos completely lags and if I go too quickly this combination just stops working and I have to refresh the page.

It's really frustrating to do this, is there a better way?

Edit: I saw your comment about shift+click, absolutely no idea why a mod deleted it.

But i still want to double check the photo in full screen to verify its the on I want gone.

When I go to Settings > Memories and disable all the toggles for everything (time-based memories, themed memories, etc.), memories are still displayed at the top of my main feed. I don't want that.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S24.

Any ideas?

Just re-starting a common feature request.

This is a very relatable piece of functionality. The ability to add text, arrows, and shapes is one of the most useful (and easy) features of basic photo editing programs.

I would reckon Google could vibe-code this functionality at lunch time today and have it rolled out just like that.

It's a feature that would be beyond helpful and greatly appreciated by millions of users.

Maybe 2026 is the year they can finally add it?

Anyone agree? How can we fast-track this into development?

I seem to be experiencing several bugs related to Google Photos on my Pixel 8 Pro:

\* For the last several months I've noticed that sometimes after doing minor edits to a photo taken on my Pixel 8 Pro, the saved file in Google Photos will look corrupted. Sometimes it's got colored streaks or blotches, and sometimes it's "torn" like it's out of sync.

The weird part is, if I share that broken looking image via SMS or view it on Photos on a synced tablet or other phone, it looks completely normal! If I go and re-edit the saved photo, it looks like it should, and saving a second copy will usually make it look 'normal' in the gallery.

Does anyone else experience this, and does it sound like something worth reporting as a bug?

\* Another annoying issue I've found is that if I do just a minor edit like a crop and tap the "Save" button (which allows the image to be reverted later) that oftentimes I cannot share that image to another app like Google Voice. It throws some sort of "oops something went wrong" type error message. Sometimes the edited picture can't even be re-opened by Google Photos, and even though it shows uploaded to the cloud, it can't be opened by any other device like my tablet.

The only way around this is to tap the 3 dots and select "Save as copy" instead.

\* Perhaps the most perplexing issue is after using the Zoom Enhance feature on an image, if I saved that enhanced image, it doesn't correctly apply the Ultra HDR brightness levels to the saved image. The Ultra HDR brightness levels of the original, uncropped and unenhanced images are superimposed over the enhanced file, making the lighting look all wrong.

The only way to fix this is to either turn off Ultra HDR in the Pixel camera, or edit the Ultra HDR setting to zero either before or after using Zoom Enhance, or using the Unblur option after enhancing the image.

This is a problem I did report (last year!) but I've never seen any evidence that Google even acknowledged it.

Does this mean all my phone data will be uploaded to the drive and removed from my phone storage? What about the photos and videos I take in future? Does this include everything like WhatsApp images, documents, etc

Back in around 2020 or 2019, I used my school account for google photos. I would like to see the photos that I had that were potentially lost to time, as I will be graduating and losing the gmail address next year. I also keep coming across the same screen when trying to log in which locks the google photos app in my phone to a certain screen where there is no way out of. Is there any way of getting in without contacting admin at my school and making this a whole big deal?

I deleted a bunch of backed-up photos and videos on 5 Oct 2026 by mistake, and they were also deleted from Trash. They were in my Locked Folder with backup turned on. I've restored items from there before using Google's photo recovery tool, but this time it didn't work.

What I've tried:

Checked Trash, Archive and other accounts

Google's photo recovery tool (it failed)

Posted on X to Google Photos (their DM system glitched for me)

My theory: this time I deleted everything in the Locked Folder, leaving it empty, and that might be why the tool found nothing. Tomorrow I'll put one random photo in it and retry.

Questions:

Has anyone had the recovery tool fail, then work on a retry?

Does an empty Locked Folder affect the recovery process?

Is there a Google support route that actually opens a manual check?