Google camera requires Google photos, is there any workaround?
I hate Google photos because I feel it's too invasive with that cloud backup that you never really know if a photo is online or on device, so I disabled it in my Google Pixel.
Now Google camera is broken, says it can't show previews until I enable Google photos again.
Is there any workaround? Tried with many other galleries, but seems it's hard coded to Google photos...
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Ah, subscribed to that, I searched but my instance returned only this
Next time I do there
Thanks and benvenuto!
I thought you can choose to not backup photos in Google Photos, so it's just a normal gallery program?
the issue is that i want to delete all the photos that i uploaded before 2021 on the website, but at the same time i don't want to delete them locally from the phone (delete from web = delete from all the devices)
If you'd like them out of Google, but still on your phone:
You can use Google takeout to download all of your photos. Then delete them from Google, and copy the images you downloaded back to your phone manually. Finally, use a gallery app that can access files stored anywhere on the file system to view them (Simple Gallery seems to work pretty well - it should automatically find the images regardless of which folder you stick them in).
Since I do like Google Photos integration, I'm loathe to try this, but if you disable the auto-backup then delete, would that work?
You can disable Google Photos, but as you've learned, you won't be able to preview the photo you just took in the camera app (i.e., pressing the thumbnail on the circle on the bottom right).
From what I can tell, your 2 options are to complete disable Google Photos but then accept the limitation that you'll have to use a 3rd party gallery app to view your photos. However, this is an inconvenience and adds friction, as it will be a multi-step process to quit the camera app and go into another gallery app just to view your photos. I personally just disable the Google Photos back up and use Immich in parallel.
The other option is to unfortunately use a different camera app. But, most people will get Google pixels for Google's software processing in their photos, so this is the less likely option for people, in my opinion.
Another alternative is the GrapheneOS camera app.
I don't use GrapheneOS, but their camera is available via GitHub
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
If you want, you can use Obtainium to keep it up to date.
Of course, Open Camera and Simpl Camera are great options too.
Use an alternative camera app. Preferably one from f-droid
I really hate the UI of Google photos and much prefer their Gallery app
Google's own Go Gallery worked for me.
The irony.
This post confuses me. You can log out of google photos. You in no way need to link it to your account and you aren't forced to upload your pics to the cloud. Am I missing something here?
The pics were already uploaded to the cloud, but once you delete from cloud, they get deleted from the phone automatically. I want to keep them instead
Nope, other then try a different Camera app. That's why I keep two installed and have to manually go into gallery. Yes, it's extremely annoying and against Google's own design decisions.
I even tried three different patched gcam but none of them has this patched
Best thing I can come up with is use a third party camera app, like Simple Camera. Since Google decided to hard-code this into the app, this is your only option aside from using really inconvenient solutions
Theres gcam photos preview on the izzy fdroid repo. I think that fixes it.
Big oof.
I got nothing.