How to delete Google Photos without Deleting from Phone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Unfortunately, deleting photos & videos from Google Photos without deleting from your phone is a bit tricky! But don't worry, I'll show you 2 solutions to delete photos & videos from Google Photos finally!
IMPORTANT: Different phones call different names their default app for photo viewing. In the above phone (Sony), it's called "Album", Samsung = Gallery, etc. What is it called in your phone?
Free up space from Google Photos why deleting photos from the cloud!
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Google Photos is called Photos on Android phones & Google Photos is called Google Photos on iPhone & Photos App on iPhone is Apple's Photos App
On android phones, in addition to Google Photos app, you'll have another photo viewer app!
Your photo viewer might be called a different name depending on your phone's company. For example, on Samsung it's called Gallery, & on Sony it's called Album.
What is it called in your phone, please let me know in the comments?
Album = Gallery
In album or gallery, you can only find photos & videos that are stored on your phone!
In Google Photos, you could see all the photos & videos that are stored on your phone as well as all the photos & videos stored online in the cloud.
All the photos in here have got the cloud icon, it means they're stored online in Google Photos. These photos are also stored in the phone. But, it's also possible to have photos that are stored in the cloud but not in the phone!
"Delete from device" will delete the photos or videos from your phone but it'll keep in the cloud. It's a good option to save space from your phone while still having access to the photos & videos through Google Photos.
1:15 - First time deleting a photo. Later, you'll get a more simple message.
IMPORTANT: It means if you'd select "Move to the bin", Google Photos will delete your selected photos & videos from both the phone & the cloud.
It also means that if the selected photos & videos is stored in another phone, tablet, pc, etc. that has got the backup turned ON, then it'll also delete them from those devices too!
Since these photos were stored on my phone as well as the cloud, now they're deleted from both.
Step 1: Turn OFF the backup
IMPORTANT: Turning off backup doesn't mean that you could now delete photos from your Google Photos & it'll just delete from the cloud!
In the Album or Gallery, those photos are also deleted.
Feel free to skip to
2 solutions to delete photos & videos from Google Photos
Solution 1: 3:54 minute
Solution 2: 5:15 minute
Basically not giving access to your storage will disable your Google Photos & make it redundant! Not a good idea!
In fact Google Photos is one of the best photos & videos apps. You just need to learn how to use it properly.
WARNING:
If you haven't turned off Google Photos backup on any device (such as your phone) that contains the original photo or video, then irrespective of which method you follow, the original photo will also be deleted.
These are all the photos & videos that are stored online/cloud. Original photo or video could still be stored in your phone (or any other device).
WARNING: It'll delete it from your phone too if you got the backup ON on your phone.
Solution 2: Deleting the photos & videos from Google Photos cloud but not from the phone but in the phone.
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*IMPORTANT: Different phones call different names their default app for photo viewing. In the above phone (Sony), it's called "Album", Samsung = Gallery, etc. What is it called in your phone?*
🔥 All Google Photos Tutorials (playlist) - th-cam.com/play/PL6oDA8S3RmtGNN878zGGlSeBHVL-S_UqM.html
🙏 Please like and/or subscribe to help others to find this video. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments below? 😊
More Google Photos tutorials below 👇
👉 How to turn OFF Google Photos sync - th-cam.com/video/MmCQJYRSWGA/w-d-xo.html
👉 How to recover deleted photo from Google Photos - th-cam.com/video/9kVnGw_x0CM/w-d-xo.html
👉 How to DOWNLOAD ALL photos in Google Photos on computer - th-cam.com/video/rvwSsaAHxz8/w-d-xo.html
👉 How to select multiple photos in Google Photos on computer - Step by Step - th-cam.com/video/u2_lX3Jp8I4/w-d-xo.html
👉 How to DOWNLOAD multiple photos in Google Photos on computer - th-cam.com/video/kF2cAmSKB58/w-d-xo.html
👉 How to empty Google Photos bin - th-cam.com/video/WjqU5KxgFUs/w-d-xo.html
👉 How to free up space from phone using Google Photos - th-cam.com/video/v6WjvxtFH-g/w-d-xo.html
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👉 How to turn ON Google Photos sync - th-cam.com/video/zZuW4_ndHbo/w-d-xo.html
👉 How To Create An Album In Google Photos - th-cam.com/video/_6vlgcGodP8/w-d-xo.html
👉 how to select multiple photos on google photos on phone - th-cam.com/video/ZXdwLoCYDa0/w-d-xo.html
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God dam legend, the day i started to use google photo is the worst day of my life
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The more people make these videos, the more tricky google has made it. I turned off back up, deleted some photos, and google still deleted them both in my phone and on the sd card. They really are evil. There is no end to what lengths they'll go to in order to coerce more money out of us.
You have to delete it from a browser. If you use the phone app it will delete both.
Use a pc
@@TheOpinionationer
Correct
righttt
goated tutorial, still works in august 2024
quick summary, disable backup, go to google photos in browser, delete photos from there
Yes it works
Can confirm that it works! Even as up to February of 2024! Thank you very much for this tutorial🎉 I've been struggling for a while with this Google Photos app
Great to hear!
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Hi..Im using pixel 6a and i followed your steps. I turned off back up, deleted some photos from browser using photos, and google still deleted them both in my phone and cloud.Kindly suggeste solution?
@@bhupindertube Hello brother, if my Google account deletes my photos or video from the Google Photos site because it has not been activated for two years, will this affect my TH-cam channel account So they delete my videos on TH-cam channel or not? I say no
Great! It works! I deleted pictures and videos from the cloud without deleting from my phone while only using my phone instead of a PC. Thank you!
I have watched a dozen videos on how to delete Google Photos, without deleting them from my iPhone. You are the first approached that worked. Thank you!!!!!
Why would you have google photos on an iphone? 🤣
Just get an android phone if you're gonna use g photos
You're most welcome!
@@CartoonWeasel Google Photos is better than iPhone's Photos in iPhone, just like everybody is using Google Maps on iPhone. As well as you could get 5 GB free cloud storage on Google Photos on iPhone.
not working 😢 it is deleting both cloud and device photos
even after turning of backup option
Omgosh thank you so much- this has been a really annoying issue for me because my storage is constantly full and I can't make edits to documents in my Google account - so I turned off the sync and deleted from the account like you suggested. Really appreciate you making this video with step-by-step instructions!!
First of all, I'm glad that this video helped you to manage your google account. I've to confess, Google Photos has made this process too complicated & just because of this many people are turned off from using Google Photos App, which in my opinion is one of the best apps for viewing Photos & Videos on Any Phone!
@@bhupindertube You're so right!!
I appreciate this so much. I found out the hard way google make all their apps share the same storage. Had some important emails that I needed to receive and its been full for a while, I can't thank you enough!
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much my storage was full and i didn't know what to do but you helped me alot💚
Glad I could help!
@@bhupindertube I have moved the photos in SD card. Now if I delete from Google photos and it will also delete from SD card?
Thank you so much for this! I have been trying to figure out this Google Photos thing for weeks and everywhere just says turn off the back-up which as you know does not solve the problem of it not deleting my photos from my phone. Thank you so much! You are amazing!
You're most welcome. It's astonishingly complicated to delete photos.
Jesus bro, you are a hero! This is the only viable solution. Huge thanks
This worked terrifically. Thank you for sharing this tip!!!!
You're welcome! I'm glad to hear that 🙏
I am not sure if the second option works or not. For me, I have my app backup in off mode, but when I try to delete the photo on website, it just delete my photo on the app, too.
me too
same any luck??
Me too,
Me too 😢
It won't delete anything for me😭
thank you so much! i was so confused what the rules were regarding deleting photos from the cloud but your explanation was super clear! also as a tip, it takes less time to delete when you're using a a keyboard. you can zoom out by a lot in the browser and hold "shift" + "left click" to select a lot of photos at a time. it took me a min at most to delete all my photos & videos after i used this method
You're most welcome! Thanks for your tip for selecting photos.
I have made another video for selecting photos on computer - th-cam.com/video/u2_lX3Jp8I4/w-d-xo.html
Or if you want to download all your photos to your computer from Google Photos Cloud in one go - th-cam.com/video/rvwSsaAHxz8/w-d-xo.html
Godddddd....you don't know what you just did❤thank you sooo muchhh
I appreciate this so much. I found out the hard way google make all their apps share the same storage. Had some important emails that I needed to receive and its been full for a while,I can't thank you enough!how to stop photos backing up to google photos
Glad I could help! Many years ago, Google Photos was allowing people to backup unlimited number of photos without taking the storage. Nowadays, it doesn't make sense to backup as it'll get full pretty quick. After deleted the backed up photos as shown above & having your back up off, Google Photos won't backup your photos from that device anymore.
my sister help me find this video, and it works🎉🎉 thank you so muchhhh!!! ❤
You're welcome!! Great of her for sharing it 🙏
omg this is truly working! I've done so many research regarding this issue but I don't fins the reliable one until I decided to watch in TH-cam. Thank you very much! Im so happy it works even if it's June 29, 2024 now.💜
not working 😢 it is deleting both cloud and device photos
Bravo!!! Thank you for the solution. Google Photos is very useful but also INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING.
So helpful ivee been stuck on this for two years
Thank you for this, turns out to be way more complicated than it should be, thanks google.
Glad it helped!
You have told us a very important thing.Thank you very much sir
Thanks and welcome
Great work. There is no helpful videos out there in this topic. Thank you so much for this video
Glad it was helpful!
Still its deleting my gallery
Very very very thank you brother..my google account storage had filled up and so I could not get any messages on gmail..but couldnt delete the already backed up photos from photos...For many days was in tension..but bow itll be solved
And the patient and gradual way you explained..step by step everything 👍👏
Definitely works! But once we turn back on the synch/backup, won't it just put everything back to the cloud?
Excellent, solved the problem, well explained and it did practically solve the issue!
Most welcome 😊
hello I did exactly as you did on your video however when I want to delete the photos on PC and I select them then I click on the trash icon to delete nothing simply happens (only this either with a single photo or 20) I really don't understand can you help me? Thanks
Thank you so much, your explanation is the only one that makes sense and I appreciate you so much for making this video!!
You're most welcome. Glad it was helpful! I put a lot of efforts in making this video as clear as possible as it's a very complicated thing to understand.
@@bhupindertube Yes I find that no one else could explain it the way you did, so I greatly appreciate it!
Thanks you so much for the help 🥰
You’re welcome 😊
Thank you very much! Does this work for videos too? It's not working for me for videos.
Thanks for the great video however once you turn the backup and sync to on, because you have taken more photos and want them saved to the Cloud, then the photos earlier deleted from the Cloud, will now sync and get deleted from your phone ie you always have to keep the back up turned off to stop this but then you are not backing up your photos anymore.
I'm glad you like the video and thanks for the comment. I would have to further investigate this issue. For example, could it be that Google Photos remembers what's deleted from the photos that are in Bin Folder? 👉 How to recover deleted photo from Google Photos - th-cam.com/video/9kVnGw_x0CM/w-d-xo.html . I wonder if you remove the photos from the bin (permanently delete), and then turn back ON the sync whether it'll still be able to delete from the phone? However, if you'd turn back on the sync then all your photos & videos will be backed up again - even the ones that you've already deleted from the cloud.
Instead, I recommend these steps 👇
1) Turn Off Google Sync - th-cam.com/video/MmCQJYRSWGA/w-d-xo.html
2) Download all your google photos & videos from the cloud - th-cam.com/video/rvwSsaAHxz8/w-d-xo.html
3) Backup all your downloaded photos & videos to 2 different external drives (2 copies) & store the SSD/HD Drives in 2 different locations (eg., 1 home & 2 office) for physical safety (SSD - th-cam.com/video/wUvrXOCi9WA/w-d-xo.html or hard drive - th-cam.com/video/Oqg8iUFJHsU/w-d-xo.html)
4) Delete All your photos & videos from Google Cloud as shown in 4:07 (IMPORTANT - TURN OFF SYCN FROM ALL YOUR DEVICES FIRST!)
Now, simply keep your sync off and use Google Photos app as a photo viewer/editor app only, happily ever after again! Any questions, please let me know?
June 23 2024 I can confirm that this actually still works guys tysm sir
That's so useful!!!! I have a question though. Let's say we turned backup off and delete the photos we wanted from Google photos. If we turn back up on the photos we already deleted from photos but not device will be deleted too? Also currently I have photos in my Google photos, PC and phone so what's happening in that case?
Yes a bit tricky is right. I think it is crap that we have to go through so much when we had no idea that we even allowed it. I am really tired of having to delete photos multi times to find out all the hours I took to delete them one was for nothing. This is NOTHING against your video. It's great but just too much for me. I just want google photos to STOP saving my photos when I have them saved in other ways. I want the warning to quit from being out of storage after deleting my entire google drive. This has been going on with Google and I for about 6 months now and now there is yet more steps I have to waster time doing. Your video is great this rant isn't about you.
Thanks for this video, I tried this method and it did work (deleted photos still stay in Apple Photos). BUT the deleted photos don’t show entirely in Google Photos gallery. In the video, the photos still show but just without the cloud icon (not backed up) 4:45 . On my device, the whole photo just doesn’t show entirely. Is there a way to unback up a photo but while the photo still shows in the Google Photos gallery? Pls help, thanks 😭🙏🏻
Very informative and helpful thankyou! But I have a query.. what will happen if I turn on the back up afterwards to back up some future photos that I really want backed up online.. shall my previous cloud removed photos be deleted from my device?
Happened to me. Once I turn on backup after a week all the old deleted automatically. This options is useless .
Thank you so much for this video, it's so helpful!
You're most welcome!
Thank u so much!! U explained everything and it really worked!!!
Thank youuu sooo much for this!! It really works!!
Glad it helped!
Hey Bhupinder! This video was really helpful. I've one doubt, after doing this process and clearing the cloud storage, when we'll turn on the back up option again in Google photos- all the photos we have in the phone storage will again start uploading on the cloud?
Hi there. Good question. Yes, as soon as you turn ON the back up again, it'll start uploading all your photos & videos that are stored in your phone!
THE ONLY TUTORIAL THAT WORKED HUHU
Hi..Im using pixel 6a and i followed your steps. I turned off back up in phone and deleted some photos from laptop browser llike u told and google still deleted them both in my phone and cloud.Kindly suggeste solution?
Thank you so much. But I still have a problem! After deleting it as instructed, it still says in google drive that google photos is taking up all the space.
He explained in a very correct manner .....👏👏👏👏
Thank you so much for this! However I have a question. If I turn back up back on, won't be photo on my phone just be re-backed up to Google photos again?
You're most welcome. Yes, if you'd turn backup on again, then Google Photos will start to uploading all your photos again until it's full. I suggest you to instead manually backup to Google Photos when needed.
I cannot wait to try this. I have lost so many pics.
Thank you . I wish you could mark photos rather than tapping on each end, individual photo such as hold one photo and drag down the screen
THANK YOU, note: i got confused and started deleting on the photos app wher eit shows the cloud icon, this does not work, u must delete photos on the browser and sign in t ogoogle photos there
This is the reason why i hate internet online shit. Just put it on USB of a fotoalbum!
So so help this was.Thank you.
You're most welcome!
Thank you so much 🙏
It really works and helped me a lot ❤
Glad to hear that
You are the best!!❤
My problem has ben solved thanks!
Thank you so much for this. (Why does it need to be so complicated? Oh wait I know… 💰)
You're most welcome. And yes, it's pretty complicated. But once you learn, it'll work to your benefit.
Thanks a lot 🎉🙏🏻
You're welcome 😊
If I already backed up all photos from my Samsung to a portable drive, is there a faster way to delete some photos on Google and free up spaces? Thanks for your advice.
You are literally a life saver🤗
You're most welcome 🙏
Lifesaver, thank you so much!
You're welcome!
what if i turned the backup back from google photoes on? will the pictures i deleted from pc browser be deleted from my device ??
Hi bhupinder. I am trying the solutions given. however, after selecting a photo to delete in the google photos browser, i cant delete the picture even when i press the trash/delete symbol. seems like access is not allowed. Nothing appear when i press the delete button. Please assist.
Thank you sooo much. Very helpful video👍👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thank You so Much brother. Great video MAN.
Glad it helped
I have a question, after deleting it and after 60 days, it'll be permanently deleted on google photos, will it affect the ones in my gallery?
I don't think it should? I tried this with a video I didn't care about and it looks like it's still on my phone but not taking up storage. And I did go and permanently delete it from google photos. Not sure if how it works as a long term thing tho?
@potato8631 thank you !
Thank you for making such a clear and helpful guide to such a bullshit problem from google :D
I did the first method, and the photos I deleted are still in my album app, and my google photos on my phone, but they still have the cloud icon? I followed all the instructions, so I'm unclear why this is?
Hi, initially it was working but now everytime i click a picture it shows in google photos too and also get deleted from my gallery when i try to delete from google photos, although backup and sync is off
Thank you soo much!! It works great! :))))
You're welcome!
Hello , I deleted the photos from my laptop but they are still there on my Google account on my phone 😭😭😭 I can't understand what's going wrong
Hi. When you say Google Account on your phone, do you mean Google Photos App or Google Photos Cloud? Please watch the video again from the beginning till the end. It's a very complicated procedure & if you miss a step, you'll get confused. All the best!
@@bhupindertube hi i meant Google photos app
Thank you..
It really helped ☺️❤
You're welcome 😊
Video was really helpful.... subscribed your channel
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks, but there is also a problem..if we use browser to delete on same phone then browser also can acess to phone's storage and can delete from device too..to avoid it, storage access permission to browser needs to be withdrawn.
But it will work for all photos except camera folder photos in Xiaomi, Vivo, oppo and realme.These phone have thier photo app integrated with google photos.
To work this trick , you just have to turn off your phone's photo app access in google photos app setting.
It worked! Thankyou
Thanks so much! You are a saviour!
Great, many thanks!
Welcome!
thank you so much , you save my day
You're welcome!
Your video was very helpful. However when I try to delete some photos from Google Photos on my Apple iPhone I get a message that states “if deleted, they will also be deleted on the Apple iCloud. How do I prevent this? My goal is to have only some photos from my iPhone on Google Photo.
Nice content to understand to all thankyou
Absolute gigachad, thanks
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
You are so welcome!
Why does google make this shit so complicated for no reason? Why would the default choice be to delete from backup AND your device? stupid af
Backup is off even deleting from Google photos by browsers, it is deleting from phone also....
It's not working please help
thank you for the solution, but if I turn the backup option back on, it would update my photos and delete the picture from device as well, right?
You're most welcome! No, it'll back them up again.
@@bhupindertube I meant the ones I just deleted from Google Photos, but not from the phone
OMG YOU HELPED ME THANKYOU SO MUCH BRO!!!
I have followed your advice carefully, but have to say that when deleting from a pc, - with backup turned off on my phone the picture on my phone is also deleted. Also, there is no "Album" app. Maybe the issue here is because I have Google Pixel mobile, and the facility to follow your method is somehow blocked?
Hi it does work i used the very last step to open via chrome on Mobile phone, my question is i don't wanna keep pictures on Google photos that are already backed up, how i can delete them all in one go?
Hi. When you say google photos, do you mean google photos on your phone or cloud? Once you turn off the sync, google photos app on your phone is just used for viewing /editing the photos and videos on your phone.
@@bhupindertube i want to delete pics from Google photos application bcz it's constantly showing full storage everytime i open gmail, i have turned off back up
I did not know that google is uploading all my pictures into the cloud for the longest of time and was wondering why my gmail is always full. and now i know why thanks so much for the video of de syncing and this vid. And Not thanks google for uploading my pics without me knowing. : /
Glad I could help
thanks!!
You're welcome!
Thank you, Sir.
You are very welcome
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I have a doubt after deleting the items on PC "by turning of the backup" button, do they get removed from device when we turn backup option back on again on mobile?
Good question. When you say deleting the items from PC, do you mean from Google Photos on the PC? You have to turn off the backup in order to prevent the same photos from deleting from other devices, particularly the device were the original photos are saved. Then, after turning back ON the backup from the device where the original photos are saved, then those photos would be again backed up & get uploaded to the cloud.
Thank you so much ❤
You're welcome 😊
i have backup off but still it deletes the photos from my gallery how can i fix it plz helppppp
Thanks a lot bro 🥳❤️❤️
Any time
Hi if I turn off back up. But than turn it back on say in 6 months time will all photos taking on my phone in that time period automatically back up to the Google photos again? Could I just manually back up the photos I want to back up and keep ? Thanks for help
Thanks
Welcome
thanks! that was helpful
I accessed Google Photos through Chrome and it doesn't let me delete photos. I literally press on the bin button and it does nothing. wtf is this
Same thing to me. I don't know if it's a problem of my devices but with both phone and pc i can't delete the photos. if anyone knows hot to resolve it, please let us know
That's strange! Have you first turned off the backup on the phone? When you refresh the page after deleting, does it still shows it? It seems to me there is something wrong in Chrome. Please try another browser & see whether it works?
@@bhupindertubeI’m having the same problem, tried this both on chrome and Edge but no success
@@Hi-xh8kr me too. I don't understand what can be the problem
Me too
Delete button not working
Sir my phone is tecno pova 5 and your solution is doesn't work for me tell me how to do
Its working thank u so much