I hate Google photos because I feel it’s too invasive with that cloud backup that you never really know if a photo is online or on device, so I disabled it in my Google Pixel.

Now Google camera is broken, says it can’t show previews until I enable Google photos again.

Is there any workaround? Tried with many other galleries, but seems it’s hard coded to Google photos…

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOP
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    1 year ago

    the issue is that i want to delete all the photos that i uploaded before 2021 on the website, but at the same time i don’t want to delete them locally from the phone (delete from web = delete from all the devices)

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      1 year ago

      If you’d like them out of Google, but still on your phone:

      You can use Google takeout to download all of your photos. Then delete them from Google, and copy the images you downloaded back to your phone manually. Finally, use a gallery app that can access files stored anywhere on the file system to view them (Simple Gallery seems to work pretty well - it should automatically find the images regardless of which folder you stick them in).

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        1 year ago

        Good god. Why is Google trying to act like Apple now? I had no idea they were building such a gross walled garden. Thank you for giving OP a way out and warning the rest of us what kind of trap the Pixel has become.

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      1 year ago

      Since I do like Google Photos integration, I’m loathe to try this, but if you disable the auto-backup then delete, would that work?