Google Photos may be uploading photos even after being uninstalled

[Spacescreamer]

Don’t be surprised if your Android smartphone continues to upload your photos to Google without your knowledge, even if you have uninstalled the Photos app.

David A. Arnott of Upstart Business journal found out that Google Photos app showed all his personal photos synced to his web account even after uninstalling it.

On reaching out to Google, the Search giant said, “The backup was as intended” and users will have to turn off the feature in phone’s Google Play Services settings. The phone’s settings are interconnected with the Play store.

So, those users looking to avoid personal photos on your phone being automatically stores on the web need to change those settings.

It was just recently that Google announced its revamped Photos app, which was so far integrated within Google+, with some interesting features at the Google I/O 2015 developers conference on May 28. The show-stopping feature being the ability to support unlimited photos and video storage.

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[nRiTeCh]

No idea about uninstalling the app but I have my selves restricted from all sync activities to google etc. and have manually set on all apps not to sync or share my data with either google or gdrive or any other cloud storage.
And yes that really worked for me.
In fact I dont even or have never ever even synched my contacts as well with google.

Dont need it. I prefer some things manually.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

^ Earlier with our dabba phones, we would need to remember each number as searching was slow and not intelligent. Not anymore.

 

[babhishek]

No idea about uninstalling the app but I have my selves restricted from all sync activities to google etc. and have manually set on all apps not to sync or share my data with either google or gdrive or any other cloud storage.
And yes that really worked for me.
In fact I dont even or have never ever even synched my contacts as well with google.

Dont need it. I prefer some things manually.

How???