Google photo QA: Google photos now removed the dark theme option,previously it has dark theme, please bring back it

Question: Google photos now removed the dark theme option,previously it has dark theme, please bring back it

I want back the dark theme option in google photos settings,the theme option was completely removed …

I want back the dark theme option in google photos settings,the theme option was completely removed from google photos settings,now it has only white permanent theme,no dark theme option available only,so please bring back the theme setting in which dark theme will be included in next update .Thank You.

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Hi Rana

Google Photos should obey the system settings for a dark theme.

If you turn on dark theme (All apps > Settings > Display > Dark theme) or via Battery Saver (Settings > Battery > Battery saver toggle on) then Google Photos will have a dark theme.

If you would like to make a feature request so that Google Photos uses a dark theme independent of the System's theme setting (e.g. the system is normal, but Photos is dark theme), you can use the menu option at: Photos > Profile icon > Help & feedback to do so.

Enjoy!

Joe

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My android version was android-8.1,so i do not have the option to change all apps together to dark mode so please give the dark mode option in next update

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Question: Why won't my photos more from one folder to another. I could before my phone updated

I have tried uninstalling still the same problem.

@Lisa

Please give an example and explain why you do want to do that.

Then we can test that.

And about which update are you talking?

From Android 10 to 11 perhaps?

PS: almost bedtime here, so don't expect a fast answer, unless from another expert-volonteer.

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I am trying to move a photo from the camera album in to a album I created. I recently had a software update android 10 to 11 and can no longer do this.

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@Lisa

Are you talking about an album or about a folder?

Because the Camera-album is no album, but a folder.

Everything in the row under Photos on device are folders.

And why do you want to do that, because you may live with a wrong idea about Google Photos.

Is syncing switched-on or off?

Back to bed for a while again :-)

PS: re-installing makes no sense, but the recent "upgrade" to Android-11 has caused some changes we need to test ourselves if you are clear about your goal. No Google here - just helpfull volonteers.

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Sorry not good with tech stuff. I was sent a photo on WhatsApp in went into WhatsApp folder I want to move photo into another folder I have labeled garden pics. I could do this before the update and now I can't.

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@Lisa

Thanks for being a bit more clear now - always wise to tell such innocent details immediately - else we (volonteers) are not able to check any behavior on technical changes or problems.

The Whatsapp-folder is not a neutral folder because the WA-app uses it for backupping the received pictures. So no pictures should be "moved-out" unless you accept that these pictures become vague in the original chats and need to get downloaded again to be able to view them.

Apart from that: if the WA-folder is synced within Google Photos, the received pictures are uploaded to Google almost immediately (when having wifi), so move to another folder is making that folder connected with Google also. So deletions on the Photos-page in the app, also will delete pictures in your Garden-folder and that behavior is not expected.

But what is new in Andorid-11 is that there are more safety warnings and permissions needed. So when I try to move, I get a warning like below in Dutch (see https://support.google.com/photos/thread/107314330?hl=en):

It asks if it is allowed to change the picture which is nonsense, because the picture is not changed, but just moved. Nevertheless you need to allow this by tapping the red circled permission and then you will see your folderlisting and can choose your Garden-folder.

Nevertheless it maybe much more simple to install the Google Gallery Go app where you can do the same operation in a much more simple environment.

Just try and good luck

PS: in fact your actions does not have much to do with Google Photos at all, but it is rather simple to create a shared garden-album at photos.google.com

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Question: I lost of my photos in Google photos app, now how process in restore in my photos?

My photos lost in Google photos app

Hello Sir,

You can just shortlist the photos by looking with a specific date or year once you found it just downloaded it if you want

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

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Question: Fix my phone now bitchs thank you blood on the mob game

Hi Almackin,

This is a public forum, so please watch your language and your spelling.

If you need your phone fixed, the Android Help Community will prove to be more useful https://support.google.com/android/community?hl=en

If you have a Pixel phone, you can go to All apps > Settings > scroll down to Tips & support > and browse help articles or use the 'Contact us' option.

Cheers,

Joe

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Question: Why can't I take any pictures on my at&t radiant max

I've tried everything but still can't take pictures

Hi, Fred Frank 30

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

However, regretfully, your query is not related to any feature in the Google Photos app.

You should look into the documentation provided by your phone's manufacturer.

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Question: میں اپنے حذف شدہ تصاویر کی بازیافت چاھتاہو

Hi, بطور رازی

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

Did you delete the pictures either on the phone or in Google Photos, inadvertently?

When we delete something from the phone, the sync action in the app removes it from the cloud also & vice versa,

Nevertheless, any deleted picture is retained in the bin for sixty days,

If your delete action is recent, you will find all the items in the bin. The bin icon becomes visible in the library view. Tap that & recover everything available in the bin.

However, if your delete action has already crossed sixty days, or you have emptied the bin inadvertently, there is no way to recover anything through Google Photos.

However, you may install to your Android device a deleted photo recovery app (be sure to not pick one that requires rooting) https://play.google.com/store/search?q=recover%20deleted%20photos&c=apps 

and run a scan for anything to recover.

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Question: I want subtitles how do I get subtitles I want subtitles because it's in French and I want English s

Backing it up, looking everywhere for subtitles, trying it on a different app

Hi, Bella Thompson

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

However, regretfully, the video player in the Google Photos app doesn't support subtitles.
You will have to look for some proprietary app to do so.

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Question: There is no option of download for a movie made in google photos

I am trying to download a movie i made using google Photos but there is no option to download it.

Hi, Ritu Mehta 7806

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

Tap the move once. That will show the three dots at the top right corner. Tap on that & then bewlo the movie you will find the option to download.

However, instead of download, if you see text "delete device copy" that means the movie is already downloade.

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Question: I want delete google photos but not from device

Want to delete google photos but not from device

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Jennifer Eloisa C. Pepito Original Poster

9/16/18

HOW TO DELETE PHOTOS IN GOOGLE PHOTOS WITHOUT DELETING IT ON MY DEVICE? 1 Recommended Answer

My Samsung S7 has been automatically synced to Google Photos so every time I took a photo it automatically sync and back up to my Google Photos account. Now, I am trying to delete some of the unwanted or not so important photos saved or backed up in Google Photos to free up some space since it took 3.17GB of data. However, when I try to delete some of the photos in Google Photos it also deletes the photos saved in my phone/device. (FYI. I would like to automatically save and back up all the photos in my device to Google Photos so every time I accidentally delete a picture in my device I could always look back in Google Photos, I know this could be hard or confusing just want to ask some suggestions though)

1. How can I changed this? or How can I delete photos in Google Photos that will NOT delete in my phone/device?

Thanks in advance to those who can help me.

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janvb Diamond Product Expert

11/2/20

This very long thread becomes almost unusable without having some "Recommended answers" on top. Because the subject is important to many, I collected some suggestions. Comments are welcome: I will edit this post when incorrect or when other (simple) solutions are posted.

This are some suggestions to delete from Google cloud without deleting from your device, without turning Backup and sync permanently off :

Copy (or move) the pic into a different non-synced folder in the Gallery or another File manager.
My best workaround has been to make a copy of the pic on the device and save it into a different non-synced folder. Then delete it on google (and thus the synced folder on my device). After that I can move it back to my regular pics folder so that it can backup at the resolution I originally intended. It's a real pain though, so I do it as infrequently as possible.
The following simple option seems to work for me (janvb).
I checked that with Backup and sync ON photos in the same folder are deleted immediately from device when deleting from the cloud.
- Turn Backup and sync OFF
- Delete the photo from Google Photos web version https://photos.google.com/
  The photo is NOT deleted from the device because B&S are turned OFF
- Turn B&S ON again: the photo was NOT deleted from the device
I set my camera to save to the SD card. Google Photos backs up that folder to the cloud, and I can clean things out of my cloud storage without affecting the SD card.
- Note that this depends on the access authorization to the SD card in Android settings > Apps > Google Photos. When full access is denied, deleting in the Google Photos app on my phone (Samsung A40) says "Cannot remove n items - Google Photos has no rights to delete items from your SD card. Go to Gallery to delete." When I delete in the web app on a computer, it deletes the web copy. On the phone I see it disappear, and after a second it is replaced by the device copy on the SD card.
- Michael Zehr (Feb 2019) said: "I checked and now it's one permission setting for read and write to both internal and SD card.". But it still works for me. You will have to check this for yourself. Let us know how it goes.
- Shawna Seto wrote (May 2019):
  I found that the photos that I moved to my sd card won't get deleted when I remove them from google photos. It will ask me for permission to access my sd card and I just decline.
- Hope this helps.
- Thanks

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Question: Phone file is nowhere to be found when I downloaded it pisses me off

Using Google photos and I have a video and I tried to download it and it says it downloaded it and t…

Using Google photos and I have a video and I tried to download it and it says it downloaded it and then I look for it I try all these different file systems and nowhere can I find that goddamn video it's not the first time this has happened it's many times it happens seems like they prefer that I get a link and I send a link it seems like they're creating a wall garden sort of like Facebook I am pissed

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Mike,

If you downloaded a video from the Google Photos app, and received a notification that the download was completed successfully, then it's just a matter of finding out where that video file was saved to on your device.

Go back into the Photos app, tap the Library icon at the bottom of the screen. You should see "Photos On Device" section with a few thumbnails. Tap the link "view all" to see a screen with thumbnails for every folder on your device that contains pictures or videos.

Often, when you download a picture or video from the Google Photos app you can find it in the Camera folder here. Files will be arranged by the date the pic was taken, so you might have to scroll to the bottom if it's an older pic or video.

If you're using a file browser app to find pictures or videos you downloaded from your account with the Google Photos app, you'll find them usually in a folder named Restored. The exact file path may be different depending on your device, but on my Pixel 3 it is as follows:

/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Restored/IMG_20210424_085709.jpg

If you're still not finding your downloaded video file, go back to the video in the Google Photos app and look at the Information panel (swipe up in the app when viewing the pic/vid). In the Details section you'll see the local storage location of that file if it is on your device. If you don't see the folder location like I described above, and you only see a file name, this means that file is not stored on your device.

Regards,

~ Greg

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Question: My picture parmanent deleted my google photos drive please recover my picture please

Please recover my picture

If you are not the Original Poster, please DO NOT add you problem/issue to this thread as it will NOT get you an answer. Please create your own thread , in the proper Product Forum, concerning your problem/issue.ThisThis will enable us to give personalized help concerning your problem.

Now- with that out of the way let's deal with Shabbar Ali's post in Google Photos.

Please note that, due to a variety of reasons, not all files can be recovered - but you can try!

1. Items deleted from your photos.google.com are stored in trash for 60 days and then are Auto-Deleted from trash and can not be recovered.

2. Items deleted manually from photos.google.com/trash can not be recovered.

3. Items deleted from your YouTube Channel can not be recovered.

4. Items deleted from your Gmail are stored in trash for 30 days and then are Auto-Deleted from trash and can not be recovered.

5. Items manually deleted from Gmail trash can not be recovered.

6. Items deleted from your Google Drive will be stored in Drive Trash for 30 days and then be Auto-Deleted from Trash and can not be recovered.

1).If you are using a regular personal account

You will have to contact a Google Drive Specialist who *MAY* be able to restore it. Use this link:

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/5032072?hl=en#contact=1

2). If you use a work/student account (G Suite), you should contact your Account Admin as they can restore files up to 25 days after deletion.

If the answer is helpful, please click "Recommend" to help other users of the community.

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Question: what if I cancel the subscription and already consumed 50gb of Google photos space, What will happn

What will happen If I consume 50 Gb space and then cancel my subscription , will all the data be del…

What will happen If I consume 50 Gb space and then cancel my subscription , will all the data be deleted or I just won't be able to store more data but previous data will be remained as it is ?

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Hi, isha sandhu

Welcome to Google Photos Community Support Forum & thanks for your query.

If you cancel your subscription, your storage limit will come down to 15GB
Since you have consumed 50GB of space, you will lose access to your Gmail & photos, until you bring down the storage below 15GB.

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Addition

And you can bring down your usage via the recover storage button on photos.google.com/settings and then wait a few days before canceling your subcription.

Also switch the backupsetting in the app to high quality to prevent this happening again. But after June 1 new shoots also will start to count for storage, however much less fast then original quality.

So in 2022 you may need to start paying again, unless you stop with backupping at Google completely before June 1 :-)

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Question: My picture parmanent deleted please help me recover my picture please

My picture parmanent deleted please recover my picture