The fundamental pillar of Google Photos is its cloud backup. If we don’t use this feature due to the end of free unlimited storage on non-Pixel devices, we lose other important features like recommendations, auto-create, albums, search engine, or search. face detection, with which the application loses much of its appeal.
Even like that, Google photos without saving it remains a good gallery. In addition, the app includes a mode to activate your “lighter gallery”, as an alternative to Gallery Go. Then we will see how to activate this Google Photos “Lite” on our Android device.
Use Google Photos without an account
By default, Google photos Sign in with our Google Account to show yourself in all your glory and recommend that we activate your cloud backup. If we enable this backup, the gallery will start uploading the previews of our photos and videos to the cloud, which may cause the app to exceed the GB of storage in use.
If we are no longer interested in viewing the saved photos, either temporarily or because we are using an alternative, we can free up storage space by using Google Photos without an account. To do this, just follow these steps:
- Click on the your profile icon that you will find at the top right.
- Click on the drop-down list for your Google account.
- Press on Use without any account.
Why is it
When activating the option to use Google Photos without any account, the gallery stop showing all the photos and videos you have in the cloud, Consequently free up space
Local gallery
The main screen of Google Photos directly displays the list of folders with local photos and videos, preserving the recycle bin. Therefore, we will only see the photos and videos that we have on the mobile on the mobile, no photos and videos in the cloud.
The gallery has no more albums but it allows us to manage our photos via the local files
Your powerful editor
We keep its powerful photo and video editor, with tools not found in Gallery Go, or in Snapseed like its video editor full of settings and filters. Google Photos editing tools are very good.
Google Goal
Its integration with Google Goal is maintained, so that we can continue to recognize objects, landscapes or texts with our local photos.
Google Cast
Its integration with Chromecast Yes Android TV to be able to reproduce our photos and videos on our television even if they are not hosted in the cloud.
Go back to connect
If we want to reconnect to Google Photos, we will only have to click on the user’s icon, tap select an account and tap our google account. Google Photos will activate all your options and start showing our photos and videos in the cloud.
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