![]() ![]() Check your photo applications (in both the settings of the application itself, and the settings section of your device as above) and check the privacy settings. This is especially important if your photo app is Google Photos. Check your privacy settings on your photo apps On a smartphone, scroll down to the Google Maps app within settings, and under Photos, click Never to never allow Google Maps to access them.ģ. Here you should be able to manage permissions, and turn off any questionable features. Once you’ve found Google Maps, click Advanced. On a computer, look for the Apps and Features, or Apps tab. On both a smartphone and a computer this will probably be represented by a small cog icon. Next, head to your device’s personal settings. Then scroll down to Photo Library, and you should be able to see a button that says, ‘Check for Photos’ and turn this off too. At the top, turn off, ‘Show your Google Photos in Timeline’. If you scroll down, you should see ‘Personal Content’. First, in the Google Maps application, click the menu button (the three lines) and then head to ‘Settings’. To check your privacy settings you’ll need to do a couple of things. Check your privacy settings for Google Maps You should then see the option to ‘Delete this photo’.Ģ. To delete a photo, just head to ‘Photos’, find the photo you’d like to remove, and click ‘More’ in the top right corner. Here you should be able to see all of the photos, feedback and ratings you’ve provided. You can remove a photo from Google Maps by opening the Google Maps application, heading to the menu (which looks like three lines), then to ‘Your Contributions’. If you’ve found that Google Maps is uploading your photos without you realising, or you’ve accumulated a lot of views on a photo you didn’t know was public, we’d recommend the following. How do I stop Google from uploading my photos? It might be that some of your privacy settings aren’t as locked down as you would like particularly in the Contributions section of Google Maps. It could be that a photo was shared with a friend or family member, who has then linked to it elsewhere, and views have accumulated that way. Our best guess is that at one time or another, consent has been given for a single photo to be shared. Although we did find some evidence in the threads that this wasn’t an isolated issue, we’d expect the problem to be far more widespread if Google was uploading everyone’s private photos when they reviewed a location, or visited a new place. According to Google, they do not share private photos without your consent. Wait, is Google uploading my photos without my permission? I don't have any photos uploaded to maps’, ‘ Why is Google maps/photo distributing my personal pictures across the internet without my permission’, ‘ Why did Google share photos from my phone without my consent?’Ī number of users claim they did not give their consent to upload anything to Google, that they’d never set up photo sharing on maps, and yet have received the emails and found their photos online. ![]() For many, it was reportedly the first time they’d been informed that their photos were available publicly.Ī brief search on the site reveals a number of these worrying posts, titled, ‘ Individual photos being shared without my permission’, ‘ I just got a notification that my photo has 5500 views. We looked into the issue and found lots of people had received the same emails announcing that their photos had received tons of views on Maps. It seems that our support engineer isn’t alone. They then realised that every time they’d submitted a review for Google Maps, a photo that they’d taken at that location had been uploaded too. One of our IT support engineers received a message from Google this month, congratulating them on a thousand views on their public photos.but to their knowledge, none of their photos were public. ![]()
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