![]() Android users wanting to do the latter have to know to access the Google settings page on their phone in order toggle the backup function off. Turns out deleting the Google Photos app from an Android device is not the same thing as specifically telling Google to switch off the Google Photos backup syncing feature. My phone must have been uploading pictures to Google Photos even though I didn’t even have Google Photos on my phone. They weren’t synced from my phone in that moment, because I always delete photos from my device once they’ve been uploaded. Instead of my pair of test photos, I saw hundreds of images. ![]() Google’s recently rebooted Photos app might be syncing your photos without you realizing it. David Arnott, an editor at the Nashville Business Journal, writes that he found it was doing just that after he installed the app to test it out and subsequently changed his mind about using it - deleting it from his Android phone and thinking that was the end of Google’s access to his photos.
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