It appears every few times I open the app and the usual android back button doesn't make it go away, and there is no cancel button. What you have to do is toggle the toggle, then the button will change to "do not back up" and then you can press it. It annoys me how easy this makes it to accidentally turn on backup.
Honestly I'm done with Google Photos, I mean I get that it was free and that I shouldn't complain about that, but I already pay with my privacy, so why pay money and have my data abused everywhere I go?
I now have a home server (second hand mac mini m2) with PhotoPrism installed
I'm always conflicted on this kind of thing, because for every person annoyed that it's asking there's a bunch that are complaining that they lost all their photos because their phone was stolen or something like that, and had no idea that they need to backup their stuff.
I didn't realize that I had turned it on on my prior phone. Welp, my phone absolutely died one day and would no longer power on. I was really sad about losing my photos and videos, but then when I got my new phone I was happy to find out that at some point I turned on photos cloud backups.
Having a notice that doesn't occupy the whole screen and can be dismissed temporarily or permanently is a much better and less predatory solution to this problem. This isn't looking out for the end user, this is urging them into a system where the host can profit off of the user's data, that also happens to provide a benefit to the user.
google's android camera app is designed to open google's gallery app. Google built an OS that has support for user selected app launching. They built a system that lets an app request the user's preferred gallery app to view photos, but then chose to not use it to force anyone using google's camera to also use their photos app. fuck google
Ya, ran into this one recently. Had to install gcam instead of stock camera on my OnePlus just so I can use alternative gallery.
Android is not truly open source project anymore.
And then if u try using alternative roms - half the cameras your phone has and banking apps are not going to work - Google intentionally castrated the functionality like this.
Was super disappointed to figure this out after installing a different gallery. And AFAIK, there's no alternative camera app that actually works properly, either.
it's EXTREMELY INFURIATING, my relatives always accidentally enable backup on google photos and the following day have their google account blocked for data overuse, and need to choose between pay for google one, or waste a day deleting the data on google photos making sure that it doesn't delete the ones on the device
for me i use aves, but they don't like it, they aren't used to it...
LOL, that's the idea all right! I pay $99 year for 2TB of storage, so I'm a happy camper. My Windows libraries, movie storage and such is backed up offsite in addition to local backups.
I was feeling smug that being on LineageOS and now GrapheneOS for almost a decade I've never seen this.
..then I remembered my fucking iMac seemed to turn on iCloud photo backup last week after updating and next thing I know all the obsolete iPads I get from work are telling me how my iCloud storage is full
Seriously this iCloud shit is on by default, predatory ass tech companies. I'm pretty sure I disabled it on that iMac but it's so possible that my own device can gaslight me that I'm left unsure. It's off now and I spent an afternoon removing all those photos.
I recently picked up an iPhone as a secondary device, pretty much immediately disabled iCloud and installed Mobius (Syncthing) so the photos get sync'ed over to my fairphone's SD card.
Now i'm second guessing whether it's actually disabled, or if I'm going to get an iCloud full warning in a couple of months....
The biggest problem is that deleting them from cloud deletes them from the phone automatically.
So you need to backup the photos manually on your phone, then disable the Google backup feature for the photos, then delete them from the website, which will still show a very worrying warning that photos will be deleted on the phone too
Asshole Google is doing asshole things. Before switching to Lineage OS this thing annoyed me so much. A few days ago I saw this prompt when using my father's phone and I couldn't believe that this thing is still happening. Google is so stubborn.
I can't wait until the immich photo editor gets enabled and hopefully it eventually duplicates all the google photos editor features because that's the only reason I keep around the google photos app.
It used to be even more annoying. Until a couple of months ago, after you tapped the No option, it would bring you to a full-screen screen where it asked you to select specific photos you'd like to backup anyways.
I used to be annoyed by this. I'm running GrapheneOS so I denied Google Photos access to the network but it didn't stop it from asking every few times I started the app. Sometimes it even ignored my response and tried to connect to the network anyway.
I just uninstalled it and installed Fossify Gallery instead from F-droid. Haven't looked back since.
Ever had issues with FDroid getting stuck during updates, it would get stuck for me every day or 2 until I just uninstalled it. I don't install apps enough to bother with it, so I figured I'd reinstall it when I eventually need it again.
I used this feature for the longest time back when Photos storage didn't count towards your free 15 GB if you used the compressed option. And then they went and made it so everything counted towards your 15 GB, no matter what quality you were backing up at, and suddenly my account was using too much storage space to keep receiving email. I go into Google Photos to clear out some of the largest pictures and videos to get a few gigabytes back, and it tells me that if I do that it's going to also delete those photos stored locally on my phone. So now Google Photos is uninstalled because if I ever let it back on my phone it's going to delete all my pictures.
Yeah, I had a photo album back when I regularly used Photos, and for some reason the photos would be backed up and the older ones would stop loading on my device? Which was a problem as I don't have any cellular data. It still happens for some reason, even though I no longer have backup enabled.