Avoid Duplicates on iOS Google Photos
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In this video, I'll show
In this video, I'll show you how I avoided getting duplicates on Google Photos.
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*** A full transcript can be found at www.marblejar.net. ***
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I avoided getting duplicates on Google Photos.
I'm a big fan of Google Photos and I have been urging folks to offload photos from their iPhones onto Google Photos to save space and as a long-term photo storage solution.
A little while ago, I started getting duplicates on Google Photos. I have an iPhone, so this video is specific to iOS issues. My duplicates looked like this. So, I would go through my photos and arbitrarily delete one of the duplicates. The problem was -- I would go back later and I was losing some of these. Instead of just deleting one of the them, Google Photos would have neither of them!
This was clearly an unacceptable situation. After some trial and error, what I realized is that, for nearly all of my duplicates, I would have one that would look like this and one that had a tiny round arrow icon at the bottom. I determined that the icon meant that that photo had NOT been uploaded to the cloud yet. Meaning that photo was only on this specific device. So, if I looked at Google Photos from another source -- say my computer, I wouldn't see any of duplicated photos -- only the ones that had been synced and uploaded. The reason I was losing photos is that I was arbitrarily deleting one of the duplicates and sometimes that was the one that I had already been uploaded to Google Photos.
So, for a while my fix was to go in and only delete the photos that had this little cloud icon on them. Well, this started to become an enormous pain in the butt. I would delete photos on my iPhone only to have to delete THE VERY SAME PHOTOS on my iPad. Last month both of my kids went to a school dance which produced a ton of photos and I spent multiple sessions determining which photos to keep -- only to have to do it again on another device. What was going on?
The first thing I tried was going into Settings, scrolling down to Camera, and turning off Keep Normal Photo. I had read that this is a new setting recently implemented that keeps 2 copies of a photo on your phone. Unfortunately, this didn't seem to take care of the issue entirely. What worked for me was turning off Photo Stream, which I stupidly still had turned on. Photo Stream is an iOS feature that allows for you to share photos across devices. I tend to take pictures with my iPhone (the camera's better), but view them on my iPad (the screen is bigger). Photo Stream allows you to do that automatically (and pretty much) immediately. The thing is -- Google Photos allows you to do that as well -- it just takes a little longer for the photos to upload to the cloud and then be available on a separate device. I turned off Photo Stream by going into Settings, then Photos, then toggled this off by Photo Stream.
Okay -- so the sharing between devices is not quite as seamless as through Photo Stream. I either have to wait a while for the photo to show up on Google Photos, or I can force it to happen by opening the Google Photos app on my phone and manually triggering a backup BUT I no longer have to worry about duplicates, which means saved time and not losing photos. Let me know what you think! Comments are always appreciated and thanks for watching!
Please subscribe and leave comments below!
*** A full transcript can be found at www.marblejar.net. ***
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I avoided getting duplicates on Google Photos.
I'm a big fan of Google Photos and I have been urging folks to offload photos from their iPhones onto Google Photos to save space and as a long-term photo storage solution.
A little while ago, I started getting duplicates on Google Photos. I have an iPhone, so this video is specific to iOS issues. My duplicates looked like this. So, I would go through my photos and arbitrarily delete one of the duplicates. The problem was -- I would go back later and I was losing some of these. Instead of just deleting one of the them, Google Photos would have neither of them!
This was clearly an unacceptable situation. After some trial and error, what I realized is that, for nearly all of my duplicates, I would have one that would look like this and one that had a tiny round arrow icon at the bottom. I determined that the icon meant that that photo had NOT been uploaded to the cloud yet. Meaning that photo was only on this specific device. So, if I looked at Google Photos from another source -- say my computer, I wouldn't see any of duplicated photos -- only the ones that had been synced and uploaded. The reason I was losing photos is that I was arbitrarily deleting one of the duplicates and sometimes that was the one that I had already been uploaded to Google Photos.
So, for a while my fix was to go in and only delete the photos that had this little cloud icon on them. Well, this started to become an enormous pain in the butt. I would delete photos on my iPhone only to have to delete THE VERY SAME PHOTOS on my iPad. Last month both of my kids went to a school dance which produced a ton of photos and I spent multiple sessions determining which photos to keep -- only to have to do it again on another device. What was going on?
The first thing I tried was going into Settings, scrolling down to Camera, and turning off Keep Normal Photo. I had read that this is a new setting recently implemented that keeps 2 copies of a photo on your phone. Unfortunately, this didn't seem to take care of the issue entirely. What worked for me was turning off Photo Stream, which I stupidly still had turned on. Photo Stream is an iOS feature that allows for you to share photos across devices. I tend to take pictures with my iPhone (the camera's better), but view them on my iPad (the screen is bigger). Photo Stream allows you to do that automatically (and pretty much) immediately. The thing is -- Google Photos allows you to do that as well -- it just takes a little longer for the photos to upload to the cloud and then be available on a separate device. I turned off Photo Stream by going into Settings, then Photos, then toggled this off by Photo Stream.
Okay -- so the sharing between devices is not quite as seamless as through Photo Stream. I either have to wait a while for the photo to show up on Google Photos, or I can force it to happen by opening the Google Photos app on my phone and manually triggering a backup BUT I no longer have to worry about duplicates, which means saved time and not losing photos. Let me know what you think! Comments are always appreciated and thanks for watching!
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