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…
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Ah, subscribed to that, I searched but my instance returned only this
Next time I do there
Thanks and benvenuto!
I thought you can choose to not backup photos in Google Photos, so it’s just a normal gallery program?
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)
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).
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?
Yes. You’re right. OP is unaware of this. The solution is just to log out in the google photos app. Done.
Use an alternative camera app. Preferably one from f-droid
Another alternative is the GrapheneOS camera app.
I don’t use GrapheneOS, but their camera is available via GitHub
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
If you want, you can use Obtainium to keep it up to date.
Of course, Open Camera and Simpl Camera are great options too.
I really hate the UI of Google photos and much prefer their Gallery app
Do you mean an alternative camera? Libre Camera is free and on Fdroid.
But in this way I lose the exclusive pixel camera features 😢
Have you tried Open Camera or Cymera? May be easier to use another camera app.
Nope, other then try a different Camera app. That’s why I keep two installed and have to manually go into gallery. Yes, it’s extremely annoying and against Google’s own design decisions.
I even tried three different patched gcam but none of them has this patched
Best thing I can come up with is use a third party camera app, like Simple Camera. Since Google decided to hard-code this into the app, this is your only option aside from using really inconvenient solutions
This post confuses me. You can log out of google photos. You in no way need to link it to your account and you aren’t forced to upload your pics to the cloud. Am I missing something here?
The pics were already uploaded to the cloud, but once you delete from cloud, they get deleted from the phone automatically. I want to keep them instead
I’m so confused. Sorry. Can’t you just unlink your account from photos and then delete them from cloud on desktop? I am currently using photos without an account and have never had an issue like this. And I HATE things that make you use accounts.
it has automatic login? Can’t try as now it’s disabled
No it doesn’t. I mean maybe initially but just log out! I mean by all means keep it disabled. Do whatever you want. But there is an easy solution for your issue and it involves literally like 2 clicks. Sorry if i am misunderstanding the issue.
Theres gcam photos preview on the izzy fdroid repo. I think that fixes it.
Google’s own Go Gallery worked for me.
The irony.