Guide: How to Add/Remove an Account in Google Photos
While technology makes our lives easier, it gets on our nerves. That’s right when it comes to our personal items, such as photos. One such interesting yet confusing apps is Google Photos. Here we will tell you how to disconnect your account from Google Photos on iPhone and Android. Many users are surprised to see their gallery or when they first use the Google Photos app Camera Roll photos in the app. Since Google Photos is known to store images in the cloud, it is clear that people may be concerned that their photos are now being stored online. Even worse, if you had previously added images from the web or the app itself to Google Photos, they will automatically appear on your phone For the same reason, people may want to disconnect their Google account from it. To delete an account, you need to know how Google Photos works. So let’s start with that, followed by how to remove an account from Google Photos.
How Google Photos works
Google Photos performs three basic functions. First, it acts as a gallery app on your phones, tablets and iPad. So every photo available on your device will show up in the Google Photos app. Just like any other gallery app, you can manage and edit your offline photos in the app. However, it is different from the usual gallery apps in a way. For starters, Google Photos allows you to store your photos in the cloud. This feature works if you use the backupup turns on feature in Google Photos settings. A Google account is required to back upup of data. So, unless it’s not enabled, Google Photos will only act as a gallery app. Once enabled, all photos are available on your phone will be synced with your Google account. Tip Google Photos shares the available 15 GB storage space with other Google apps, but if you use a high quality setting instead of the original quality, you can upload unlimited photos. Finally, it continuously syncs your photos between different connected devices. This means that any image or video available in the Google Photos cloud will automatically sync with your phone both on Android and iOS.
How accounts work in Google Photos
For starters, Google Photos only works with Google accounts. However, you can also use it without an account – more on this below. When you first start the app on your phone, you will notice that your Google account is displayed automatically up in Google Photos. That happens if you use a Google account on your device. If you now have multiple Google accounts, they will all be listed in the Photos app. And you are not signed in to a Google account, you will be asked to sign in. You can do that or skip it.
Now you have to wonder if your images will be uploaded to all your accounts in Google Photos. The answer is no. The images you see in Google Photos are the images available on your phone nothing but. The app will ask if you want to enable the backup function.
If you want to enable it, you have to choose the Google account. Once enabled, the images will only be uploaded to that account. As mentioned earlier, all the photos already available in your Google Photos account will be displayed up in the Google Photos app. You must switch accounts to view such images.
How to Unlink Google Photos
Now we come to the main question – how to remove an account from Google Photos. The answer to that question is complicated. You must first ask yourself why you want that. Let’s take a look at the different cases along with their steps that may correspond to your reason.
Case 1: Stop uploading photos to Google
If you are concerned that your photos will be uploaded to the cloud, as explained above, this will only happen if you have enabled the backup setting. And once you’ve done that, you can turn the setting off without logging out of the app. No new photos will then be stored in the cloud. And existing photos remain untouched. Here are the steps: Step 1: Open the Google Photos app and tap the three-bar icon at the top. Select settings.
Step 2: Tap Back up and sync and turn off the switch next to Back up and sync.
Case 2: Log out of Google Photos
If you are not familiar with the online factor of Google Photos, you can opt out of it. However, if you have multiple Google accounts on your phone, you can’t sign out of just one account on Photos and keep the rest signed in. You will be signed out of all accounts. And when you do this, images will no longer be uploaded to Google if the feature was turned on and the synced photos will be deleted from your phone but not from Google Photos. Here is how to sign out of Google Photos on Android. Note: This feature is not available on iPhone and iPad. Step 1: In the Google Photos app, tap the three-bar icon in the top left corner.
Step 2: Tap the small down arrow next to your name. Next, tap on Use without account option.
The Google Photos app now functions as a true offline gallery app. You should also try the lighter and offline version of the Google Photos app known as Gallery Go.
Case 3: Delete Google account completely
Note: Use this method to sign out of Google Photos on iPhone and Android. In the second case, you will still see the Google accounts listed in the Google Photos app. You can tap on any account to use it.
However, if you want to remove the Google account from the Google Photos app, you will need to remove it from your phone self. Doing this will also log you out of other Google apps like Gmail, YouTube, Drive, Calendar. You will also lose all your synced data on it phone, such as contacts, files in other apps such as Google Drive. Note: The data will be deleted from your phone nothing but. It will not be removed from Google. The steps are the same for both Android and iOS. Step 1: Open the Google Photos app. Tap the three-bar icon at the top. Then tap the small down arrow next to your email.
Step 2: Select Manage accounts on this device.
Step 3: On the iPhone, tap Delete from this device button present under your Google account.
On Android, tap the Google account, followed by Remove account button on the next screen. Note: If you delete a Google account, all data will be lost from your phone, As mentioned above.
Case 4: Switching between multiple accounts
If you have a back-up To transfer your photos to another Google account, you must save the backupup disable on the first account and enable on the second. Here is how to go for it. Step 1: Go to the settings of the Google Photos app via the three-bar icon at the top.
Step 2: Tap Back up & sync. Google Photos will show you the email ID where the photos were uploaded.
Step 3: Turn off the toggle next to Back up & sync.
Step 4: Go back to it home screen of the app and tap the three-bar icon. If the Google account is signed in, tap it or tap Add another account.
Step 5: After logging in with the new account, tap the three-bar icon again. Then select Settings.
Step 6: Tap Back up and sync. Turn on the switch next to Back up and sync. The photos are now uploaded to the new account.
Case 5: Sign out of Google Photos from other devices
Finally, if you’ve signed into your Google account with someone else phone and forgot to log out, your synced photos will be displayed up in their Google Photos app when they switch accounts. Don’t worry though. You can log out of Google Photos remotely. For that, you need to unlink your Google account from their device. By doing this, your friend’s phone lose access to your Google Photos account. However, it also means that you will also be logged out of other apps on that device, such as Contacts, Calendar, Drive, YouTube, etc. To do this, follow the steps below. They work on all devices such as Android, iPhone and desktop. Step 1: Open the Google device activity link on your device. You will be asked to sign in with your Google account. Use the same account that you want to log out on the other device. Step 2: All your connected devices are listed. Click on the device you want to unpair.
Step 3: Click on Logout. Tip You can also change your Google password to sign out of all devices.
Is it safe to log out?
Yes. Log out of the Google Photos app on it phone will not back-up delete up data. The images and videos are still available in Google Photos. You can check it out by going to photos.google.com on the web. If you sign in to the Photos app again, the information will be displayed again. The next up Are you considering getting the Google Photos app from your phoneWill your photos be deleted? Find the answer in our guide from the following link.
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