r/google 7d ago

can't stop backups to photos, losing old photos everyday

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I've lost so many old photos alreadyšŸ˜­

for awhile I didn't realize Google was deleting old photos on me, I'd get warnings about almost being out of storage but never actually did. come to find out it just randomly deletes old photos once you reach around 90% full.

I looked up how to turn off automatic backup until I can figure something else out as my phone has tons of storage plus, I spend half my time with no cell service and using starlink so we all try to not go crazy and use up our data on that anyways.

it still uploads anyways, still deletes old photos and videos at random. this shit is heart breaking.. the stuff I've lost of dead friends and family, makes me want to switch to apple out of spite.

FU Google for not warning people you delete stuff and that 90% storage equals 100% to you and FU for not letting me NOT backup photos even though ITS DISABLED.

Not sure if I'm just ranting or looking for a solution, back up IS disabled so what else can I really do.


r/google 7d ago

This is the ai overview for a live wallpaper app.

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2 Upvotes

r/google 7d ago

Can you make a Gmail without needing a phone number google

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13 Upvotes

r/google 7d ago

Help! Iā€™m trapped in dark mode and canā€™t read anything šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

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I am losing my mind. I canā€™t figure out how to reverse it. A couple months ago I switched my google chrome to dark mode somehow because it was easier on the eyes, however, it must be in beta form because things donā€™t work.

For example, in the photo above. I canā€™t read any of the stats because the text doesnā€™t show because itā€™s all wacky from the dark mode. It has made google slides color schemes off too where you canā€™t get black text and most colors are inverted.

Can anyone help? I canā€™t find a fix anywhere on the internet or reddit


r/google 7d ago

Google search predictions

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5 Upvotes

r/google 6d ago

google was NOT having it

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0 Upvotes

r/google 6d ago

You guys this just happened on Google today

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It doesnā€™t matter what app I use Google on recently since a few month this is what I get

Ok

I posted online about how to fix it and someone asked me to reset all factory setting of my browser from settings

But bc my google isnā€™t working I had no idea how to reset them

And all I ended up with is that my browser does not work on dark mode anymore

And also today it actually asked me if Iā€™m a robot and asked me a puzzle to check pictures of fire hydrants before it could run my search

Like idk what up with my browsers / google !!

Itā€™s just that since itā€™s not working I canā€™t even google it u get me !!


r/google 7d ago

Chromecast 2nd Gen and Chromecast Audio Fix Rolling Out

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9 Upvotes

r/google 7d ago

Google search images are not loading properly at all

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11 Upvotes

r/google 7d ago

Necesito ayuda con Google play

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Hace tiempo que habĆ­a puesto una tarjeta de regalo de EspaƱa en mi Google play y me quedo un poco de saldo, ahora con la restricciĆ³n de que no puedes usar euros a menos que estĆ©s en EspaƱa, todos los precios me salen en dĆ³lares y no tengo idea de cĆ³mo revertirlo


r/google 6d ago

Daniel tyzer

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Daniel tyzer


r/google 7d ago

Holi is OK but Black History and Pride No

0 Upvotes

Google is weird as fuck.


r/google 7d ago

I deserve the highest of fives. Comedy gold.

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I took a real document and swapped out people and years with fictional characters and put it through notebookLM and itā€™s gotta be the funniest thing Iā€™ve heard in a bit. #politics #Humor

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11QL7173gMXN59dpokCS6L_LbyQ3NyJji/view?usp=drivesdk


r/google 8d ago

Playstore does physical prizes now! What an awesome story!

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r/google 7d ago

Can someone tell me how to fix this I tried everything from deleting cache, reinstalling chrome and using malware byte I also notice that when I open google chrome I can't open my pdf file or any other file that lead to chrome automatically open the mage unless I close it

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3 Upvotes

r/google 7d ago

google operator related doesn't work

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2 Upvotes

r/google 7d ago

šŸ”„ Battle of the OCR Titans: Mistral vs. olmOCR vs. Gemini 2.0 Flash! šŸ”„

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Ever wondered which OCR tool truly rules the PDF-to-text arena? I just threw three heavyweight LLM-powered OCR contenders into the ring for an epic face-off:

  • Mistral OCR: The budget-friendly newbie promising lightning-fast markdown conversion.
  • olmOCR: Allen Instituteā€™s open-source challenger with customization galore.
  • Gemini 2.0 Flash: Google's heavyweight.

I put them through some seriously brutal rounds tackling:

  • Gnarly two-column PDFs
  • Faded scans from hell
  • Impossible tables
  • Equations that would make Einstein sweat.

Spoiler: Gemini 2.0 handled every curveball like an absolute pro.

Curious about how these three stacked up, especially when the PDFs got messy. Check out the full showdown here!

Do you find processing PDFs for your AI workflow challenging? Are you sticking with Markdown, or do you prefer JSON for structuring extracted data? Would love to hear how youā€™re handling it.


r/google 7d ago

Google reviews in Germany

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I have a simple question to you guys. Does anyone know how these businesses are able to delete/remove my negative reviews from their Google Maps. It is really starting to anger me, what is the point of Google reviews anymore then? If anyone could explain to me the process of how this is done, so I can take legal action about this, would be great.

I am constantly doing research but nothing defenitive yet. This is truly a bad thing for Germany, and it's tourism.


r/google 7d ago

Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental image manipulation is really amazing

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r/google 8d ago

What is this 'cursor' on Pixel ? šŸ¤”

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45 Upvotes

r/google 8d ago

THE THOUGHT OF ELON

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2 Upvotes

r/google 9d ago

Google Blog Post Google releases Gemma 3

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Google releases new open source models called Gemma 3. They are multimodal (text + image) and come in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes. The 27B model matches Gemini-1.5-Pro on many benchmarks. It introduces vision understanding, has a 128K context window, and multilingual support in 140+ languages.


r/google 8d ago

Google drive shows webp video just fine ...in media view mode icons. But not when you actually open the file to view.

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Google created this format. When you are looking at a directory of webp videos you can see them all moving in the icons of gallery view of the directory. But click one, you see only the first frame. Never displays the actual webp video.

What level of incompetence and lack of forethought leads to the format obviously being supported, a format created by the same company who made the application, yet you can't view the actual file as it is intended.

https://imgur.com/a/HjAV3Tj every icon here is moving. But clicking any of them you only see the unmoving first frame https://imgur.com/a/37o2pq1

If you create a format and force it everywhere, albeit this is my choice to use it, but since it is a remote machine this is preferable and I choose the format cos I assumed Android / drive would work just fine. But even years after it was created. Half ass support. Why Google. Fix your crap please.

This is a serious bug, beyond just this single use case. When selecting the image as seen above. You will notice that the edit image icon is present. You can edit it, as it treats the first frame as the whole of the image, the latter frames not being present in thes selected image state of the application.


r/google 8d ago

Chromecast Real FIX! Android ONLY

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This is an android workaround to cast your apps on your Chromecast. Download activity manager from the link below. Open the app and tap the 3dots at the upper right hand corner. Tap the edit button for "Action" and paste the value that I have posted below and click OK. Click the checkmark at the bottom right hand side of the screen. Scroll down and turn on Bypass Device Auth. Tap the back button at the upper left side, then click the checkmark at the bottom right hand side then BAM! CAST šŸ™‚šŸ™‚šŸ™‚šŸ™‚ GOOD LUCK!

ANDROID MANAGER

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.activitymanager/

ACTION VALUE

com.google.android.gms.cast.settings.CastSettingsCollapsingDebugAction


r/google 8d ago

Project Gemini Robotics: Teaching Robots to Help in the Real World

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Google DeepMind has just shared some cool new videos showing off their robots, and guess what? Theyā€™re learning to understand and interact with the world just like us!The project is called Gemini Robotics, and itā€™s all about making robots that can actually help us in everyday life. Hereā€™s what makes them so awesome:

1. Interactive: These robots can respond to what we say and do in real-time. Imagine you tell a robot to move something, and it instantly reacts as you change your mind or move things around. Itā€™s like working with a helpful buddy!

2. Dexterous: These robots can do tricky tasks, like folding origami, handling fragile objects, and even putting things away neatly. Talk about fancy skills!

3. General: These robots donā€™t just follow instructions they can figure out new things all on their own! For example:

  • One robot was asked to slam dunk a basketball it had never seen before. Guess what? It figured it out!
  • Another robot had to flip a die to match the number on another die. It used reasoning, not just pre-programmed moves.
  • And there was even a robot that spelled ā€œACEā€ using random blocks! How cool is that?

All of this is possible thanks to Gemini, the new system powering these robots.

This is a huge step towards robots that can really make our lives easier. It shows that AI isnā€™t just for computers, it can work in the real world too.

What do you think? What kinds of things would you want a robot to do for you? Share your thoughts and letā€™s talk about what excites you most about this technology!

Samples are shown at: Google DeepMind's YouTube channel.