This is a recurring concern, especially for users of this cloud solution in its free plan. Owners of the Google Photos application were until now limited to syncing their photos between their smartphone and online storage space. It was possible for them to choose folders to sync with their online storage – their camera feed, logically – but in the case of photos being deleted on the cloud, photos and videos from Google was deleted from the memory of the connected smartphone. Photo account. were, because it is now ancient history.
Through a support page for its Photos service, Google has announced the possibility of enabling an option that’s certainly not complete yet, but at least gives you better control over your online storage. allows to. It is currently, and will remain, exclusive to iOS, meaning iPhones. “Soon. Deployed on Android. Undo the backup. The goal is to allow people who have uploaded their entire photo library to Google Cloud to change their minds without deleting their photos from their smartphone. Simply open the Google Photos application on mobile, then click on your profile photo at the top right of the screen, go to the tab Settingsthen finally Backup (hence the backup). An option Cancel backup for this device. Lets you go back to syncing smartphone content with the cloud, and save a few GB of online storage in the process. However, it is not possible to partially select images to be asynchronous to the cloud.
This option makes more sense because Google Account users have 15GB of free storage to split between their Gmail, their Google Drive documents, and their Google Photos. Suffice it to say that unfortunately sync can quickly saturate such a space, forcing those who want to be satisfied with the free offering to switch to the paid one.
Finally, remember that, conversely, it is possible to delete photos from a smartphone as well as delete them from the cloud. To do this, select the images you want and click on the menu that appears. Remove from device.. An interesting option for those who have a mobile with less storage space.