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Access Locked Folder in Google Photos across your devices with cloud backup (blog.google)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] imrichyouknow 7 points 1 year ago

Unless it's end to end encrypted it's useless, false sense of security is worse than insecurety.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sick, nice addition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's c/selfhosted opinion on something like this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

kinda useless if youre gonna self host something, but like if you're not it's google so your trust may vary

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

finally. it was basically useless before this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be so definite about that

Having the possibility to have a local secure folder was already a useful feature

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do you use it and if so, what kind of photos are you putting in there? If you don't mind sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Useless? Really?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me? Absolutely. I would like to be able to keep my (and my SO's) main photos app PG-13. Unfortunately, previously, if you lost your phone or it got destroyed all your private photos in the "Locked folder" would be gone forever, so it wasn't a viable option for anything you cared about. Now there's at least the option to keep intimate photos and not risk losing OR exposing them accidentally when passing your phone around to show non-intimate photos you've taken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's still mostly useless. You get one giant locked folder. You can't have multiple locked folders or categorize the contents within it in any way. You can't put photos in the locked folder into albums or search through them (by face, location, etc.) or even edit them.

You also can't share photos within the Locked Folder. But if they were already shared before being moved there, and you have backup enabled for Locked Folder, then they somehow remain shared?

What they really need to do is fix up the album feature.

Right now you can hide an album from your library, but only if you are already sharing that album in some way. And accessing them once hidden is unintuitive, because unless you already knew about that sharing requirement, how are you to know that they will still show up in the Sharing tab (and that they won't be hidden from there too like you would expect)? I hid one as a test and then had to Google how to find it again.

There should be a Locked Albums feature:

  • Albums hidden from Library and Sharing (unless you enable the toggle)

  • All photos in those albums hidden from Photos and Archive and Search (unless you enable the toggle)

  • Require password or biometric to access