{"id":309943,"date":"2019-06-13T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=309943"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T07:33:48","slug":"google-to-stop-syncing-between-drive-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/309943-google-to-stop-syncing-between-drive-and-photos.html","title":{"rendered":"Google to stop syncing between Drive and Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/photos\/simplifying-google-photos-and-google-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that from 10 July, new photos and videos in Google Drive won&#8217;t automatically show up in your Google Photos account, and new content in Photos won&#8217;t be added to Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, this change is designed to prevent the accidental deletion of items across products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal with these changes is to simplify some features that caused confusion for our users, based on feedback and our own research.&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Google also announced that it would be bringing a new feature to Google Photos called &#8220;Upload from Drive,&#8221; which allows users to manually copy images from their Drive account to the Photos app.<\/p>\n<p>These images will not be linked however, meaning that if you delete the image from your Google Drive, it will remain in your Photos app.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any photos or videos from Drive in Photos that you have uploaded prior to this change will remain in Photos,&#8221; added Google.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/309929-google-reveals-pixel-4-design.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google reveals Pixel 4 design<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that new photos and videos from Google Drive will no longer automatically show up in your Google Photos account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":127652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[167,10232,30680],"class_list":["post-309943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-google","tag-google-drive","tag-google-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309955,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309943\/revisions\/309955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}