Google’s Android operating system is the most used smartphone operating system in the world. Moreover, it launched its recent version, Android 10 back in September 2019. The Android operating system comes with a lot of pre-loaded Google applications like Google Map, YouTube, Drive, Gmail, Calendar, etc which should not be treated as bloatware. However, there is one more app that comes pre-installed i.e. the Google Photos application that has so many features apart from just being an image gallery. And in this post, we will be guiding you on how to make sure the images stored in Google Photos are private.
Many times, users have a question regarding the privacy of the images in the Google Photo app, are they publicly visible? How can we make images stored in Google Photos private? etc. And if you are also having some doubts then, this post is exactly for you. So, without any further ado, let us get straight into the article itself:
How to Make Sure Images Stored In Google Photos Are Private
Once you install and open Google Photos application on your device, it will straight away ask you for your Google account. There is some important use of the Google account for this app which we will tell you below.
Google Photos as Image Gallery
You can treat Google Photos application as your image gallery application. It shows you all your images and videos in one place and even sorts them intelligently. Moreover, even if you have your Google account connected, you do not need to worry about the privacy of your images and videos as they are private unless you enable the backup feature. So, they are private by default.
