Google is alerting users of its Photos app on both iOS and Android that it will remove estimated locations of photos and videos you've taken by May 1st.
reports that Google is warning both iOS and Android users about estimated photo locations. This feature, which is used with photos stored in the Google Photos app, looks at the background of photographs and videos you've taken with your phone's camera and using landmarks visible in the image, tries to figure out where the picture or video was taken.
Google's alert pops up in the Photos app and says,"Photos locations come from multiple sources, including locations estimated by Google Photos. We stopped using Location History to estimate photo locations, but we'll continue estimating using other sources when 'Estimate missing locations' is on." The alert also asks whether you want to keep any existing estimated locations or have them removed.
As Google notes,"Choosing 'Keep' means that you can use existing estimated locations to organize and find photos." If you choose to delete them, you will get a message that says,"Deleting estimated photo locations based on Location History may result in permanent loss of those estimated locations. Your photos will be kept."You might have estimated photo locations toggled on by default.
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