Users of Google Photos, the tech giant’s service to back up and share pictures, are reporting that older images have been corrupted, with discoloration, lines, and other artefacts appearing on old photos.
to complain about the problem. The reports first started popping up about two days ago, and all of the affected images share similar damage. There are seemingly random lines and dots of missing pixels, replaced by either black or white pixels at random. Most of these artifacts form random-looking lines, like there is just missing data for a few points in the photos.
The good news is that the issues have been resolved automatically for some people already. On their end, they can’t see the artifacts anymore.and opening the affected images again and then see error-free versions., the company said “we’re aware of the issue and are rolling out a fix. The original photos are not impacted.”
Cloud services like Google Photos should not be relied on as a backup for personal files, most of all the family memories captured by photos. The best and safest backup option is an external hard drive or USB thumb drive that is store in a safe location.
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