One of the most used applications for organizing pictures and using them as a gallery is Google Photos. The complete photography app it is also a cloud service where we store our immortalized memories and have many arguments to lure us in. After moving the editor to the web version and importing two focused changes into backup, the next step won’t please many.

According to private media Android Police, Google has been pushing users to enable automatic backup of photos. Yes, it’s a useful function, but some users don’t want to leave all their privacy to Mountain View’s servers. let’s see now which banner is added and how can we remove it.

No thanks. I already have my own backup

Google Photos is an excellent service as it has a powerful photo editor as well as very useful functions like image search. But lately, it has become one of the most typical places for Google to monetize its services ecosystem.

This will try to persuade Google to enable the backup. Android Police Image

Saying goodbye to free storage and exceeding the free quota of 15GB we have to go through the box to get more space. And here Google has a good argument to persuade the user to make backup copies. Now the app has started showing a permanent banner at the top of the homepage.

It reads: “Unleash the power of Google Photos: Get more out of your memories.” This is accompanied by an exclamation point and an arrow indicating that it can be clicked. By touching a new setup screen where we are shown a progress bar, just below it we will see three actions related to the backup.

If we are not interested, just hit the back button (or perform the gesture) but the title will still be in the first section. As they commented in the environment, it is not clear what the purpose behind the change is because not all users want to use the app to create backup copies or enable notifications.

it would make some sense present a reminder on the occasionHowever, if the user decides not to accept these recommendations, he should not insist again. Fortunately, with a little trick, we can remove this banner without opening notifications.

It will be as simple as holding down the Google Photos icon to navigate to your file, then go to Permissions > Notifications and enable the public key. Then at the bottom we will find the different notification channels of this application, we have to disable them all holding the first key acting as the leader.

Now when we reopen the Google Photos app, the annoying banner will be gone. While the intentions are not entirely clear, it’s easy to think badly about this move. Google wants to make all its services profitable, and there is no better way than to get in front of users.

via | Android Police

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