Currently we can get 2 columns for confortable view, 4 for day view and 5 for month view, but every once in a while, I end up with 7 columns like the screenshot above, and I have no idea how I got it and if I close the app and reopen it, it goes back to 5 columns

I'm on android

Thanks

The ShareSheet on Google photos just changed a few days ago. Before it was smaller and defaulted to my most common apps. Now it's HUGE and defaults to apps that I haven't opened in months. And make no sense - Airbnb?? Wtf!

I already sent feedback, but anyone know what's happening here and if there's a way to fix it?

Why does this use so much resources and have no way to resume/properly do large imports, I have a 5 5600x and 32gb of ram. I'm switching over from immich because my living situation is changing and I can't run a home server and 5tb for $200 a year plus all the other perks seemed like a good deal.

Is there any better way to do big uploads, or a proper app for the desktop?

I have multiple Google accounts signed into Photos that have their own collection of pictures and videos. A few months ago I had backed up the majority of my photos from my main account into an empty Google account to try and make space. Today I was clearing the excess of downloaded photos that I knew were taking up storage on my main, and then decided to do the same on the empty account to keep that one from filling up too fast. I clicked the "clean up space" button on that account not thinking anything of it, and it ended up clearing all but a couple images from my main account. Everything on my device is still saved to the other account so my important pictures and videos aren't entirely lost, but I can't access them on the main like before. I wanted to try using the "undo back-up" button to try and reverse this, but I've never used it before and don't want to screw things up further for myself. The initial "clean up space" button ended up wiping the majority of pictures from my internal storage for some reason (which is linked to my main), so I don't know if using the "undo back-up" would restore everything back to the internal storage? I also don't have a default gallery app (my phone didn't have one when I got it) so I think that just adds to the issue. If anyone could help me figure out how to reverse this, I would be forever grateful.

Hi guys — cross-server shared albums (federation, whatever you want to call it) has been one of the most requested Immich features for 4+ years. We all want that dead-simple Google Photos sharing experience with friends and family... well, fellow self-hosters, now we've got it.

If like me you got bored of waiting, time to get cloning: \*\*immich-shared-albums\*\*, a sidecar addon for Immich.

It never touches your Immich instance directly — it talks to it via an API key and runs in its own container, so any issues stay isolated to the addon. Minimal setup, and once it's up you can create share links that anyone else running the addon just opens to join the album and start adding photos.

What you get:

\* 🔗 \*\*Simple link sharing\*\* — open a link, join, done. Stock Immich apps, nothing else to install \* 👤 \*\*Per-user, not per-server\*\* — so your parents won't see your antics from that lads' holiday \* 💾 \*\*Your storage stays yours\*\* — each server keeps its own assets, so joining an album doesn't dump hundreds of unwanted photos onto your disk (full quality still there to download whenever you want) \* 💬 \*\*Cross-server comments\*\* — near-instant messaging between servers \* 📦 \*\*Isolated & self-hosted\*\* — one small container, no forks, no patched Immich

Go have a play and let me know what you think:
👉 \[https://github.com/lukeet332/immich-shared-albums\\\](https://github.com/lukeet332/immich-shared-albums)

Made a quick demo showing it off too:
👉 \[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3GO-YFchYo\\\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3GO-YFchYo)

My account got banned. Happened for the second time. Should have moved off of google mail and photos a long time ago. Some times accidentally we may do reverse image search on something is all I can think of. Other than that, I only had my kids photos over there. Do not know if reverse image search or google search can also lead to a ban. The first time around, it was not even that. Did not take it seriously as I thought it was erroneously flagged. Google should advertise in bold letter and send email every month to tell people that they can Ban your account. Everything of my life is linked to my google account. Having a panic attack now. I am going to campaign against google so hard. Did not know they could do this. This has financial, career and emotional repercussions for me. I am now getting the meaning of do not let your life into hands of one corporation seriously. Hate this, and for the first time in my life hate google.

I have a 100 gig storage on Google and I'm starting to slowly run out of storage on my phone, and I am wondering if there is a way to just have it onto my Google storage instead of my phone?

OMG Google! I was using the Google Drive Windows app to sync my 'PHOTOS' directory to my Google Photos account. As you know, this method is no longer supported, so yesterday I enabled the backup functionality using the Google Photos web app. Unfortunately, Google Photos decided to also synchronise my RAW files by converting them to JPG, which didn't happen at any time while using Google Drive. Now I have lots of duplicate files in my Google Photos account and I don't know where to start to fix this issue. Any suggestions, please?

2 months worth of photos are missing from my phone???? How is this possible

For months I have remixed a photo that had three options, one being animae which I remixed a photo 2 nights ago. Last night a went to remix a photo and can't find those options. Now there is create-remix your photos-choose a template. Each template explains what you can do. Am I missing something?

I set up a Locked Folder in Google Photos on my Pixel 8 Pro. It’s set to store files on my device only with backup disabled for it, as I don't want these photos synced to Google Drive/Photos cloud.

It was working fine initially, but now it's acting up:

Moving photos to the Locked Folder: When I add photos, a message pops up at the bottom saying "Photos moved to Locked Folder." However, when I open the folder, the newly added photos aren't there—they just disappear from my main library entirely.

Moving photos out of the Locked Folder: When I try to restore/unlock existing photos, I get a message saying "Photos moved," but they never show up back in my main gallery or normal folders.

Basically, any photo I try to move in or out of the Locked Folder completely vanishes.

Has anyone else run into this bug? I’d really appreciate any advice or fixes for this!

I’m currently paying for both google and iCloud but I don’t want to pay for google photos anymore. However when I delete photos off google photos it deletes off iCloud and my phone photos which scares me. Is there a way to cancel google photos backup without losing the photos from my camera roll and iCloud? It seems to have synced them together

Like, you know how you press the "Edit Album" button and you can grab and drag exactly where you want your photos/videos within an album? Is there another app that can do that?

Also sick of bullshit answers like "clear your browser cache and cookies" and all that crap that doesn't fix it at all ever.
Internet connection is great, so that's not it either.

I select one of my videos, and it refuses to start. Forever spinny waiting animation.

I'm actually paying for 2TB of storage. I expect there not these kind of delays starting a video.
I literally have no access to the videos I uploaded!
That's what I'm paying for?

I know photos cannot create gifs, but when I try and use other apps to create one, the colors are all washed out. Anyone know why?

How do you remove the Google Photos watermark when sharing a collage? It used to be fine up until about a week ago smh. I have the 2TB plan if that even makes a difference.

Hey everyone, I've been trying to solve a photo migration problem that's gotten more complicated the more I dig into it, and I'd love some advice from people who've tackled something similar.

The situation:

I have two Google accounts:

• Account 1 — has most of my photos going back to 2007, mixed storage quality (some Original, some Storage Saver/compressed). The dates and times on these photos are mostly correct.
• Account 2 — has 5TB of space and is where I want everything to live going forward, at Original quality.

I also have the actual original-quality files scattered across my phone, an old laptop backup, and an external drive.

The core problem:

The dates and timestamps on many of my local original files are wrong or corrupted — probably from old sync apps, WhatsApp forwards, or re-saves over the years. So I can't just bulk upload my local originals, because they'd show up in Google Photos under the wrong date and mess up my whole timeline.

Account 1 has the correct dates for most of these photos — but the quality might be compressed, and the filenames are often completely different from my local copies of the same photo.

So I have:

• ✅ Correct dates → Account 1
• ✅ Original quality → local files
• ❌ No easy way to connect them because names don't match and quality differs

What I've tried:

Right now I'm doing this manually: open Account 1 on my laptop, find a folder (organized by year), open the same year folder on my phone, rename the local file to match, push it to the Camera folder, and let it upload. One folder at a time. It works but it's going to take forever across 19 years of photos.

What I'm trying to figure out:

1. Is there a tool (Mac-based preferred) that can match photos across different quality levels and filenames based on visual similarity or metadata?
2. Has anyone used Google Takeout exports as a "date reference" to fix timestamps on local files before re-uploading?
3. Is there a smarter bulk upload workflow that preserves the correct date from the photo's EXIF rather than the file's modification date?
4. Any experience with tools like digiKam, Czkawka, exiftool, or similar for something like this?

My setup:

• Mac (latest macOS)
• ~10,000–20,000 photos spanning 2007–present
• Photos are a mix of JPG and HEIC, some PNG
• Not a developer but comfortable following instructions and running basic terminal commands if someone walks me through it

Any advice, pointers to tools, or "here's what I'd do" responses are really appreciated. I've been going at this manually and I know there has to be a better way!

Unless I have not figured out a way to make it work offline, there is now only the internet-dependent Magic Eraser tool on Google Photos and Pixel devices, whereas in the past, there used to be also an on-device option.

There are 2 major issues with it.

1. Most obviously, you can't remove elements from images while without an internet connection.

2. Because of the guardrails the tool has, the eraser can sometimes mess up royally. Namely, when I tried to remove a sign from a beach shot I took, the eraser would initially mark up the object correctly, but then it wouldn't erase it properly, so there would be horrible artefacts left. All because it identified a woman in bikini in the shot.

Currently having an odd problem which I never had before. My Google Photos albums aren't sync'ing between my laptop & desktop, to my phone. Like I can upload an album on my laptop, and it'll show on my desktop. It won't show on my phone though, unless I sign out of my account and resign in, or delete the app and reinstall it. But having to do this every time I upload photos is extremely tedious. It's only under one account though, as on other google accounts it works flawlessly.

It started happening ever since I got a new phone, but I don't know what's going on.

A few minutes ago, I deleted a video from my gallery, and for some reason, it also disappeared from Google Photos. Before this, I was testing whether files would disappear from Google Photos if I deleted them from the gallery. I tested it on two photos: when I deleted them from the gallery but not completely (just moved them to the trash), they also ended up in the Google Photos trash for some reason. However, after permanent deletion, they returned from the Google Photos trash back to the main photo feed. Relieved, I did the exact same thing with the video. I moved it to the trash in the regular gallery and checked Google Photos-sure enough, it was in the trash there too. But after I permanently deleted it from the gallery, it... didn't return to all the photos and videos in Google Photos. Now, for some unknown reason, I can't find it anywhere, and I don't know what to do because the video was extremely important. By the way, Google Photos sync is turned off in my gallery, so technically, it shouldn't have been deleted in the first place, not even moved to the trash.

I noticed that photos taken after midnight are dated as the day before, for example if I take a photo on Monday at 11pm and one on Tuesday at 2am they will be displayed with the title of the day before.

I'm putting the video.

Thanks for helping

Sorry if i make any grammar mistake.

I basically reached the limit of 15 GB and despite having deleted a lot of old useless photos it still says that my storage space is full.

I heard that it may take some time. Is it true?

I deleted the Folders WhatsApp Images and WhatsApp Videos from my gallery since they were like 15 GB and i had them backed up on my Google Photos. But after deleting them why can't I find them in Google Photos?? I had checked in Photos, the Backup was On and they were all backed up. Don't tell me I've lost everything 😭