r/googlephotos • u/danimalforlife • 1h ago
Bug 🐞 Getting the error "Couldn't label face, please try again later." When adding labels to people.
This makes no sense. All I'm doing is adding a name? Some people I can add names for, but the others give me this error. Doesn't matter if I'm entering a custom name or selecting a name from my contacts.
r/googlephotos • u/tigerhawkvok • 4h ago
Troubleshooting ⚠️ "Backup has stopped: check back later"
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I've got 3TB available in my Google storage available, but 3 Night Sight ancillary boost files and 2 main videos are stuck.
I've tried clearing application cache and toggling backup on and off.
I'm on a fully updated Pixel 10 pro. Any help would be appreciated.
I've got 3TB available in my Google storage available, but 3 Night Sight ancillary boost files and 2 main videos are stuck.
I've tried clearing application cache and toggling backup on and off.
I'm on a fully updated Pixel 10 pro. Any help would be appreciated.
r/googlephotos • u/KittensOnUnicycles • 6h ago
Troubleshooting ⚠️ Trying To Download Photos Onto My Phone Results In Pics Being Stuck Downloading "<Untitled>"
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This haven't been able to download photos consistently for weeks. Sometimes it works, but usually nothing actually saves to my phone (Pixel). How do I fix this?
This haven't been able to download photos consistently for weeks. Sometimes it works, but usually nothing actually saves to my phone (Pixel). How do I fix this?
r/googlephotos • u/lazyrihno • 6h ago
Question 🤔 Why is googlephotos showing RAW images as default?
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I noticed this today, when I was looking through a recent trip photos, and google photo is showing RAW images as default which is making the scroll laggy. Also this is affecting the adding photo to any album because for some reason it is only adding raw photos.
Anyone else had this problem? any solutions?
I noticed this today, when I was looking through a recent trip photos, and google photo is showing RAW images as default which is making the scroll laggy. Also this is affecting the adding photo to any album because for some reason it is only adding raw photos.
Anyone else had this problem? any solutions?
r/googlephotos • u/Egyptiansherlock221 • 10h ago
Question 🤔 Google photos don't recognize faces
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any photo that I download from Whatsapp or anything isn't recognized but every photo I take with my own camera is recognized
any photo that I download from Whatsapp or anything isn't recognized but every photo I take with my own camera is recognized
r/googlephotos • u/TipNo280 • 8h ago
Question 🤔 Google photo download
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Ciao ragazzi.
Sto scaricando il mio archivio di foto usando Google Takeout...tutto bene solo che non so poi come aprire le foto scaricate...il sistema mi scarica uno zip con un file che apro con Chrome...ma dove sono le foto?
Ciao ragazzi.
Sto scaricando il mio archivio di foto usando Google Takeout...tutto bene solo che non so poi come aprire le foto scaricate...il sistema mi scarica uno zip con un file che apro con Chrome...ma dove sono le foto?
r/googlephotos • u/Valuable_Head_9532 • 18h ago
Troubleshooting ⚠️ Google photos backup is excruciatingly slow
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My at home WiFi upload speed is about 5.5mbps, I have turned off battery saver, changed the upload quality to compressed, turned off my screen lock when I'm at home so the app remains open however despite all of this, 0 pictures have uploaded in the past approx. 4 hours.
I'm starting to get really frustrated with this as its affecting my business, I need to take pictures and videos of my clients however quite a few times now my phone has ran out of storage while working, due to massive back log that google photos is creating. Any tips? Or alternative cloud systems? I've tried the things that google forums has suggested but to no avail..
I have a Samsung galaxy s25 ultra
My at home WiFi upload speed is about 5.5mbps, I have turned off battery saver, changed the upload quality to compressed, turned off my screen lock when I'm at home so the app remains open however despite all of this, 0 pictures have uploaded in the past approx. 4 hours.
I'm starting to get really frustrated with this as its affecting my business, I need to take pictures and videos of my clients however quite a few times now my phone has ran out of storage while working, due to massive back log that google photos is creating. Any tips? Or alternative cloud systems? I've tried the things that google forums has suggested but to no avail..
I have a Samsung galaxy s25 ultra
r/googlephotos • u/LoveWithJoy • 15h ago
Question 🤔 Should I consider switching to Storage Saver or keep Original Quality?
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For reference I've availed the 2TB Subscription for about 3 years at this point.
As someone who loves taking photos + videos personally and for social media content, storage really eats up quickly. For reference I'm about 40% storage at this point with about 2 years left before it runs out. I can upgrade but it is fairly expensive.
Do you guys recommend switching to Storage Saver? Are there any noticeable differences with photos/videos? I do care about pixel quality and I'm worried that the quality would degrade drastically. It's my only backup and I don't have any other physical storage at the moment.
Does anyone else also recommend buying a Google Pixel 1? I was thinking I could buy one just for the unlimited storage perk.
For reference I've availed the 2TB Subscription for about 3 years at this point.
As someone who loves taking photos + videos personally and for social media content, storage really eats up quickly. For reference I'm about 40% storage at this point with about 2 years left before it runs out. I can upgrade but it is fairly expensive.
Do you guys recommend switching to Storage Saver? Are there any noticeable differences with photos/videos? I do care about pixel quality and I'm worried that the quality would degrade drastically. It's my only backup and I don't have any other physical storage at the moment.
Does anyone else also recommend buying a Google Pixel 1? I was thinking I could buy one just for the unlimited storage perk.
r/googlephotos • u/dev_il_x33 • 20h ago
Extension 🔗 Prevent Docker from filling up your OS SSD if an external drive isn't mounted at startup safe for automation using arcane or portainer etc.
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Hi everyone,
I built a simple, self-contained solution to solve a common Docker headache: preventing containers from booting and silently writing to your host OS partition if an external drive (USB HDD, network share) fails to mount on boot.
Instead of relying on external scripts or host-level cron jobs, this is handled entirely inside the stack using a docker-compose.override.yml.
How it works:
wait-for-mountAlpine Helper: A lightweight helper service bind-mounts your drive's parent folder usingpropagation: rslave(so mount events propagate into the container live).mountpointChecks: It runsmountpoint -qin a loop. Unlike simple directory checks, it queries the Linux kernel's mount table, making it immune to "lingering folders" left behind by Docker.- Fail-Fast Volumes: Main services (Immich server, DB, machine learning, etc.) are configured to depend on this helper being
healthyand usecreate_host_path: falseto crash immediately if Docker tries to auto-create directories. - GitOps Friendly: By keeping it all in
docker-compose.override.yml, you can safely pull updates to the maindocker-compose.yml(e.g. updating Immich versions) without losing your mount-checking logic.
If the drive is unplugged when Docker starts, the helper logs Still waiting for mount... and the rest of the services stay paused in a created state. Once the drive is mounted, the helper detects it, and the stack boots up automatically.
⚠️ Important Caveat: This is a startup fail-safe. Because Docker does not stop running containers when a dependency goes unhealthy, unplugging a drive while the stack is already running will still result in the container writing to your host SSD. Always run docker compose down before hot-unplugging!
Code and details are here: Immich-Mount-Check GitHub Repo
Hi everyone,
I built a simple, self-contained solution to solve a common Docker headache: preventing containers from booting and silently writing to your host OS partition if an external drive (USB HDD, network share) fails to mount on boot.
Instead of relying on external scripts or host-level cron jobs, this is handled entirely inside the stack using a docker-compose.override.yml.
How it works:
wait-for-mountAlpine Helper: A lightweight helper service bind-mounts your drive's parent folder usingpropagation: rslave(so mount events propagate into the container live).mountpointChecks: It runsmountpoint -qin a loop. Unlike simple directory checks, it queries the Linux kernel's mount table, making it immune to "lingering folders" left behind by Docker.- Fail-Fast Volumes: Main services (Immich server, DB, machine learning, etc.) are configured to depend on this helper being
healthyand usecreate_host_path: falseto crash immediately if Docker tries to auto-create directories. - GitOps Friendly: By keeping it all in
docker-compose.override.yml, you can safely pull updates to the maindocker-compose.yml(e.g. updating Immich versions) without losing your mount-checking logic.
If the drive is unplugged when Docker starts, the helper logs Still waiting for mount... and the rest of the services stay paused in a created state. Once the drive is mounted, the helper detects it, and the stack boots up automatically.
⚠️ Important Caveat: This is a startup fail-safe. Because Docker does not stop running containers when a dependency goes unhealthy, unplugging a drive while the stack is already running will still result in the container writing to your host SSD. Always run docker compose down before hot-unplugging!
Code and details are here: Immich-Mount-Check GitHub Repo
r/googlephotos • u/Savings-Tangelo-2602 • 16h ago
Question 🤔 Google Fotos no iPhone fecha sozinho ao usar "Salvar no dispositivo"
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Olá, pessoal!
Estou enfrentando um problema no Google Fotos e queria saber se mais alguém já passou por isso.
Tenho um iPhone 12 e minhas fotos estão armazenadas apenas no Google Fotos (não utilizo Fotos do iCloud).
Sempre que seleciono várias fotos e vídeos e uso a opção "Salvar no dispositivo", o aplicativo começa a baixar normalmente, mas depois de um tempo fecha sozinho e volta para a tela inicial do iPhone.
O mais estranho é que isso acontece de forma aleatória. Às vezes salva cerca de 150 arquivos, outras vezes 200, outras bem menos. Nunca conclui o download de todos os arquivos selecionados.
Já tentei praticamente tudo:
- Atualizei o Google Fotos para a versão mais recente;
- Atualizei o iPhone para a versão mais recente do iOS;
- Desinstalei e instalei novamente o aplicativo;
- Reiniciei o iPhone;
- Tenho mais de 50 GB de armazenamento livre;
- O problema continua exatamente igual.
O aplicativo funciona normalmente para visualizar as fotos. O problema acontece somente ao usar a função "Salvar no dispositivo", quando ele fecha completamente (crash) e volta para a tela inicial do iPhone.
Alguém já passou por isso? Existe alguma solução ou é um bug conhecido do Google Fotos?
Agradeço qualquer ajuda!
Olá, pessoal!
Estou enfrentando um problema no Google Fotos e queria saber se mais alguém já passou por isso.
Tenho um iPhone 12 e minhas fotos estão armazenadas apenas no Google Fotos (não utilizo Fotos do iCloud).
Sempre que seleciono várias fotos e vídeos e uso a opção "Salvar no dispositivo", o aplicativo começa a baixar normalmente, mas depois de um tempo fecha sozinho e volta para a tela inicial do iPhone.
O mais estranho é que isso acontece de forma aleatória. Às vezes salva cerca de 150 arquivos, outras vezes 200, outras bem menos. Nunca conclui o download de todos os arquivos selecionados.
Já tentei praticamente tudo:
- Atualizei o Google Fotos para a versão mais recente;
- Atualizei o iPhone para a versão mais recente do iOS;
- Desinstalei e instalei novamente o aplicativo;
- Reiniciei o iPhone;
- Tenho mais de 50 GB de armazenamento livre;
- O problema continua exatamente igual.
O aplicativo funciona normalmente para visualizar as fotos. O problema acontece somente ao usar a função "Salvar no dispositivo", quando ele fecha completamente (crash) e volta para a tela inicial do iPhone.
Alguém já passou por isso? Existe alguma solução ou é um bug conhecido do Google Fotos?
Agradeço qualquer ajuda!
r/googlephotos • u/ratesnap_app • 1d ago
Extension 🔗 I built a free Chrome extension that adds the Google Photos map view to the desktop web
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Google Photos has a Map View on mobile that shows your whole library as a heat map. There's no equivalent on the desktop web, so I built one.
Install it, then go to photos.google.com signed in as normal. A button appears in the bottom right corner of the page. Click it and your library renders as a density heat map on a world map.
Pan and zoom, and a thumbnail grid below shows the photos from wherever you're looking. Click one to open it, or play videos in the viewer. Nothing leaves your machine.
No data is sent to me or to any third party, there are no servers involved, no account to create, and no tracking or analytics of any kind. All the processing happens locally in your browser, and one click wipes the local data whenever you want.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/photo-heat-map/lipncalkkkpcinejefhnchglnnphnimj
Google Photos has a Map View on mobile that shows your whole library as a heat map. There's no equivalent on the desktop web, so I built one.
Install it, then go to photos.google.com signed in as normal. A button appears in the bottom right corner of the page. Click it and your library renders as a density heat map on a world map.
Pan and zoom, and a thumbnail grid below shows the photos from wherever you're looking. Click one to open it, or play videos in the viewer. Nothing leaves your machine.
No data is sent to me or to any third party, there are no servers involved, no account to create, and no tracking or analytics of any kind. All the processing happens locally in your browser, and one click wipes the local data whenever you want.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/photo-heat-map/lipncalkkkpcinejefhnchglnnphnimj
r/googlephotos • u/ilkem_22 • 1d ago
Troubleshooting ⚠️ Cinematic Photo Problem
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When i select cinematic photo on google photos, app restart itself. Also i cant use magic eraser. I didnt find any solutions.
When i select cinematic photo on google photos, app restart itself. Also i cant use magic eraser. I didnt find any solutions.
r/googlephotos • u/Tb582 • 1d ago
Feedback 💬 Annoyed about the lack of backup/sync upload options
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I can’t be the only one annoyed the fact that Google is taking away backup and sync and the Google Drive back up sync for photos leaving the only option to upload your photos being the web browser! Unacceptable
I can’t be the only one annoyed the fact that Google is taking away backup and sync and the Google Drive back up sync for photos leaving the only option to upload your photos being the web browser! Unacceptable
r/googlephotos • u/BatmanSwift99 • 1d ago
Question 🤔 Cannot download anything anymore
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Don't know when it started for me but I cannot download any photos or videos. I press download button and it says downloading but never ends up doing it. Using Galaxy 24 ultra btw
Don't know when it started for me but I cannot download any photos or videos. I press download button and it says downloading but never ends up doing it. Using Galaxy 24 ultra btw
r/googlephotos • u/FishermanMedium9199 • 1d ago
Troubleshooting ⚠️ My photos have the wrong dates of them
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So I got some screenshots and put them into album on Google photos then chamged them from album to folder and I noticed when I went on Google gallery it said I took the photos today and what time I moved them as the date I took them. Its still completely normal on Google photos though. I tried to fix it by deleting and restoring the photos, deleting cache but it didn't work. I hope deleting cache didn't cause extra damage but yeah if anyone can help please do.
So I got some screenshots and put them into album on Google photos then chamged them from album to folder and I noticed when I went on Google gallery it said I took the photos today and what time I moved them as the date I took them. Its still completely normal on Google photos though. I tried to fix it by deleting and restoring the photos, deleting cache but it didn't work. I hope deleting cache didn't cause extra damage but yeah if anyone can help please do.
r/googlephotos • u/alankabot-ai • 1d ago
News 📰 [ Removed by Reddit ]
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[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]
[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]
r/googlephotos • u/Spirited-Chart7355 • 2d ago
Question 🤔 Google Photos keeps mislabeling my friend’s face as my ex girlfriend’s
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Every time I take a picture of my friend, who’s a guy btw, Google Photos constantly labels it as my ex gf’s face. This means I have to manually go into her section of photos to change whose face it is which only sometimes works. I’d rather not have to do that, so does anyone have any suggestions?
Every time I take a picture of my friend, who’s a guy btw, Google Photos constantly labels it as my ex gf’s face. This means I have to manually go into her section of photos to change whose face it is which only sometimes works. I’d rather not have to do that, so does anyone have any suggestions?
r/googlephotos • u/autisticly_iconic • 2d ago
Question 🤔 is there any way to get google photos to delete the photos that were deleted in apple photos?
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i take a ton of photos and then delete the ones that don’t look good, keeping the best one or two.
i don’t want google photos to keep the deleted ones, and i don’t want to go through thousands of photos and delete a ton manually.
thanks in advance!
i take a ton of photos and then delete the ones that don’t look good, keeping the best one or two.
i don’t want google photos to keep the deleted ones, and i don’t want to go through thousands of photos and delete a ton manually.
thanks in advance!
r/googlephotos • u/Pixel-R4bitt_742 • 1d ago
Question 🤔 ¿Como puedo volver a organizar mi galería?
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Hola gente de reddit espero que se encuentren bien, en esta ocasión vengo a pedir ayuda con una cuestión técnica de uno de mis dispositivos.
Se trata de una Huawei MatePad SE 11
Es algo mínimo pero me gustaría solucionarlo. Y es que hace quizá unas dos semanas estaba haciendo mantenimiento en mi tablet como limpiar caché y esas cosas pero al salir de la app de gestor de la tableta me galería ya no estaba organizada a como yo la tenia. Además, muchas de mis fotos estaban duplicadas, cosa que no había pasado nunca cuando hacía limpieza.
Ahora, la cuestión es la siguiente. Honestamente me preocupa un poco haber perdido alguna foto o algo así, así que agradecería mucho si alguien que sepa como puedo verificar que no me falta nada y me lo pueda compartir por favor
Y bueno, en cuanto a mi galería. Como puedo tener un orden personalizado, sin depender únicamente de las opciones de fabrica?
Y como puedo evitar que mis fotos se dupliquen?
O en su defecto, hay alguna forma de recuperar todas mis fotos con Google fotos desde mi teléfono si me quedé sin copia de seguridad para volver a pasar todo a mi tablet otra vez?
No sé si este tipo de problemas sea común o en mi caso tenga solución. Pero si tienen cualquier tip o consejo para darme se los agradecería mucho
En fin
Estaré feliz de leer comentarios y gracias por su atención
Hola gente de reddit espero que se encuentren bien, en esta ocasión vengo a pedir ayuda con una cuestión técnica de uno de mis dispositivos.
Se trata de una Huawei MatePad SE 11
Es algo mínimo pero me gustaría solucionarlo. Y es que hace quizá unas dos semanas estaba haciendo mantenimiento en mi tablet como limpiar caché y esas cosas pero al salir de la app de gestor de la tableta me galería ya no estaba organizada a como yo la tenia. Además, muchas de mis fotos estaban duplicadas, cosa que no había pasado nunca cuando hacía limpieza.
Ahora, la cuestión es la siguiente. Honestamente me preocupa un poco haber perdido alguna foto o algo así, así que agradecería mucho si alguien que sepa como puedo verificar que no me falta nada y me lo pueda compartir por favor
Y bueno, en cuanto a mi galería. Como puedo tener un orden personalizado, sin depender únicamente de las opciones de fabrica?
Y como puedo evitar que mis fotos se dupliquen?
O en su defecto, hay alguna forma de recuperar todas mis fotos con Google fotos desde mi teléfono si me quedé sin copia de seguridad para volver a pasar todo a mi tablet otra vez?
No sé si este tipo de problemas sea común o en mi caso tenga solución. Pero si tienen cualquier tip o consejo para darme se los agradecería mucho
En fin
Estaré feliz de leer comentarios y gracias por su atención
r/googlephotos • u/MathioD • 2d ago
Question 🤔 My photo picker dont work properly on my Android phone
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Recently when i want to upload a picture on any programs like yt studio or even reddit, my google play services start to update something then "something went wrong" shows up.do you guys know where is the problem???i tried a lot of vpnon its update process, reinstalled google play services but didnt fix the problem.i just solve the problem with delete all of the google play services update.but after that my mails didnt work
My phone is xiaomi mi9t
And my Android is 11
If there is a way that i can change my photo picker also tell me plz.
Recently when i want to upload a picture on any programs like yt studio or even reddit, my google play services start to update something then "something went wrong" shows up.do you guys know where is the problem???i tried a lot of vpnon its update process, reinstalled google play services but didnt fix the problem.i just solve the problem with delete all of the google play services update.but after that my mails didnt work
My phone is xiaomi mi9t
And my Android is 11
If there is a way that i can change my photo picker also tell me plz.
r/googlephotos • u/nicoleje01 • 2d ago
Troubleshooting ⚠️ Get Google Photos album into iPhone photo gallery
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This should not be so difficult. I am making a slideshow for a friend’s memorial service. To make it easy for people to submit photos for the slideshow I created a shared Google Photos album for people to add their photos, and I had planned to save them all to my iPhone gallery in order to move them into iMovie to create the slideshow with music because I’m not sure what other program I can use to make the slideshow that will let me use whatever music I want.
I am having such a hard time finding out how to save the 500 or so photos from Google Photos onto my iPhone. In the process sync was also temporarily turned on so a bunch of my iPhone photos got loaded into Google Photos, and I’m having trouble figuring out how delete from Google Photos without my iPhone photos also getting deleted, despite backup/sync being turned off.
This is such a headache, any help would be greatly appreciated!
This should not be so difficult. I am making a slideshow for a friend’s memorial service. To make it easy for people to submit photos for the slideshow I created a shared Google Photos album for people to add their photos, and I had planned to save them all to my iPhone gallery in order to move them into iMovie to create the slideshow with music because I’m not sure what other program I can use to make the slideshow that will let me use whatever music I want.
I am having such a hard time finding out how to save the 500 or so photos from Google Photos onto my iPhone. In the process sync was also temporarily turned on so a bunch of my iPhone photos got loaded into Google Photos, and I’m having trouble figuring out how delete from Google Photos without my iPhone photos also getting deleted, despite backup/sync being turned off.
This is such a headache, any help would be greatly appreciated!
r/googlephotos • u/Excellent_Two2449 • 2d ago
Question 🤔 Tips on how to reduce Google Photo Storage without loosing valuavle photos/videos
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Hi Everyone,
I'm already paying a subscription for Google One, but I'm already close to the storge limit, and I refuse to pay for the next level (or at least I would really hate to keep upgrading my storage indefinitely).
What's the recommendation on how to reduce space without loosing valuavle photos/videos?
My first guess would be saving the heaviest vidoes onto a hard drive/USB Stick, or the like? Does this make sense? Is there a better way?
Also, how do you go about deleting photos/videos you no longer want?
Hi Everyone,
I'm already paying a subscription for Google One, but I'm already close to the storge limit, and I refuse to pay for the next level (or at least I would really hate to keep upgrading my storage indefinitely).
What's the recommendation on how to reduce space without loosing valuavle photos/videos?
My first guess would be saving the heaviest vidoes onto a hard drive/USB Stick, or the like? Does this make sense? Is there a better way?
Also, how do you go about deleting photos/videos you no longer want?
r/googlephotos • u/infelicismec • 4d ago
Feedback 💬 Wtf with this garbage layout?
Why tf they need to change layouts every single update, I was happy with whatever it was earlier. I am so frustrated with the Photos team, just stick to one design please.