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Can I delete photos from my iPhone if they are on Google Photos?

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That’s up to you; if you don’t want the photos stored in two places, then it’s fine to remove the photos from your iPhone. If you want the photos stored in more than one place, consider keeping the photos on your iPhone or back them up to a computer or external hard drive or the cloud. It’s a good idea to have more than one backup of precious data, as backups can fail or services can be stopped or changed over time.

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Can Google Photos remove duplicates?

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Google Photos itself doesn’t have a feature for removal of photo duplicates. You’ll have to find and remove duplicates manually, as explained in the article above. There is software available online that claims it can sweep your Google Photos app for duplicates; research its worth and safety carefully before choosing this option though, as it's not something we've tested.

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How do I delete all photos from Google Photos?

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Select the first photo to be deleted by clicking on the circle in the upper left hand corner. Scroll down to the last photo to be deleted, then press the Shift key down and click on the upper left hand corner circle of that last photo. This will select all of the photos from beginning to end. Then press Delete and all the selected photos will be removed. If you have a lot of photos, it is easier to do this in batches (also tedious but it’s not easily designed for big deletions), especially if your internet connection is slow. Note that the thumbnails must all have loaded before selecting everything; using the scrollbar can be too quick to allow this to happen, so either do smaller batches or scroll through the images by mouse, slowly.

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How do I delete more than one photo on Google Photos?

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You can batch delete photos from Google Photos by selecting the circle in the top left corner of the first photo to be deleted, then holding down the Shift key and clicking the same circle of the last photo in the batch, then click Delete. This will delete all photos in the selected batch, so unfortunately if there are some photos inside that group you want to keep, you’ll need to select the batch before each photo to be kept, to avoid losing the wanted ones. Also, be careful to select the image, not the date.

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Is there no automatic way to do this or an app that can do this? It's a real pain Google doesn't offer such a service.

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Sadly, no. There used to be, until Google stopped allowing downloads from Picassa. Picassa had a experimental tool that would find duplicates.

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How secure is Google Photos?

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It's very secure. As it is a service from a big company like Google, it must be very secure so they don't encounter breaches and lose clientele.

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