Google Photos has starred this past weekend in a huge scare for some of the users who rely on this service to support their best memories lived over time.
And it is that as numerous reports, complaints point out, and it is even talked about in several Reddit threads, photographs that are more than five years old are being affected by the appearance of a series of elements as if they were mistreated analog photographs. treat.
In this sense, cracks, lines and points distributed throughout the images have been seen, as well as blurred or distorted areas, considering these affected images as corrupt.
Waiting for official report
The thing is that corrupt images are present on all platforms (Android, IOS and the web), even in individual images that are downloaded individually, even through tools such as Google Takeout.
At the moment we are waiting for Google to make an official announcement reporting what happened and the measures taken, for which we can understand that they are still investigating this problem.
Some users have found that clearing the cache removes artifacts from images. Others have chosen to open the photos in the image editor of Google Photos, completely disappearing the problems.
This can be interpreted as the images edited by Google Photos, which are the ones that finally appear on the screen, are affected, but not the original copies of the photos, which makes it a lesser evil.
This situation has reached a significant number of Google Photos users, the exact scope being unknown at this time, but users have not stood idly by, showing their discomfort on the different social platforms.
It never hurts to have local copies of your photos, and not only on mobiles, but also on other backup devices, such as Monument, and even if necessary, you can also use cloud-based alternatives, such as Internxt .
