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.
If you don’t use cloud backup there’s much better gallery apps
Google also has an app called just Gallery which doesn’t pull this crap.
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.
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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
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
Ran into this asshole the other day, got me because I needed to show someone a contact card for them to scan. Fucking google.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do they use backed up photos to train Gemini? Could be they do and hence need all the user photos they can get their hands on.
I’ve accidentally turned on backup this way and lost a ton of storage. Definitely an obnoxious way to push your product.
Couldn’t you delete them if you need the storage?
The biggest problem is that deleting them from cloud deletes them from the phone automatically.
So you need to backup the photos manually on your phone, then disable the Google backup feature for the photos, then delete them from the website, which will still show a very worrying warning that photos will be deleted on the phone too
it’s EXTREMELY INFURIATING, my relatives always accidentally enable backup on google photos and the following day have their google account blocked for data overuse, and need to choose between pay for google one, or waste a day deleting the data on google photos making sure that it doesn’t delete the ones on the device
for me i use aves, but they don’t like it, they aren’t used to it…
and then every month or so, again “why u no enable cloud backup??” I already disagreed to it!
This and the monthly reminder from whatsapp to give all my data unencrypted to google and LEOs as a “backup” on google drive
Oops I installed Google photos and now my Gmail is full. Sooo dumb.
pay for google one
LOL, that’s the idea all right! I pay $99 year for 2TB of storage, so I’m a happy camper. My Windows libraries, movie storage and such is backed up offsite in addition to local backups.
Same. My whole family uses it and we still have half left. I got a ton of 4k video in there too. Not sure what all these people got on their phones to use up all the storage.
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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Immich!
I switched to Immich and will never look back.
I love the idea.
My old server wouldn’t run it in docker for some unknown reason…
I’ll have to give it a whirl again.
I’ve got both going for dual cloud backup. Immich is hosted local so I’ve got a backup at home, and I pay $5/month for 500GB storage with Google
For me the main issue with that is giving Google money. I’m already paying with tons of my data, that’s enough to me
I prefer paying someone else
Also: in this way when you delete something from a backup it doesn’t get deleted on the other
I can’t wait until the immich photo editor gets enabled and hopefully it eventually duplicates all the google photos editor features because that’s the only reason I keep around the google photos app.
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
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.
Toggle the toggle?
Toggle the switch?
Toggle the toggle switch
Next you guys will tell me you need to itch an itch.
