Google Photos Introduces “Undo Device Backup” Feature: What You Need to Know

Google Photos has launched a new feature “Undo Device Backup” which will give users more control and better experience on Google Photos. With this new feature, users can remove all videos and photos that are backed up on a device from their Google Photos account. And the best thing is that it will not affect the local stored photos and videos of the device.

This update is very good for those users who use Google photos a lot and want to use Google photos more effectively, and this will also improve the privacy of the user, so today in this blog we will learn about this new feature, what is this feature and how can you use it.

What is Google Photos’ “Undo Device Backup” Feature?

This “Undo Device Backup” feature has been launched so that users can have more control over their Google Photos and can use the cloud storage better and this feature helps users in all these:

• Remove synced content from a specific device: Such photos and videos which were previously synced with a Google Photos account from a device can be easily removed with this feature.
• Retain local files: The best thing is that even after your photos and videos are removed from the cloud storage, those photos and videos will still be safe on your local device.

How to Use the “Undo Device Backup” Feature in Google Photos?

To use the Undo Device Backup feature, you have to follow these steps. Currently, with these steps, you can use this feature on your iOS device and soon this feature will be released for Android as well.

1. Open the Google photos app on your iOS device.
2. Tap on your profile picture which is found on the top right.
3. Go to the Google photos settings option and tap on the back-up option.
4. Scroll down the page and tap on “Undo backup for this device”.
5. Confirm by tapping on the box and tap on the Delete Google Photos backup option.

As soon as you confirm, all the photos and videos that were backed up on that device will be removed from your Google Photos account without affecting the local photos of that device.

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Benefits of the “Undo Device Backup” Feature

After the arrival of this feature, Google Photos users will get many benefits:

• Efficient Cloud Storage Management: By removing unnecessary backups, a lot of space will be freed up in your Google Photos account, which you will be able to use to save your important photos and videos in cloud storage.
• Enhanced Privacy: With this feature, you can easily remove your personal photos and videos from cloud storage, which increases privacy.
• Simplified Backup Management: With this feature, you can easily manage backups and using this feature, you can easily remove the data which you do not want to back up. And with this feature, there will be no need to manually delete a single picture.
• Device-Specific Customization: After the arrival of this feature, you can easily manage which device’s photos and videos you want to save in your Google photos account and which device’s data you do not want to save.