Android phones have the capability of not only showing what you have inside the memory card but also from your google picasa web albums, even your profile pictures google and facebook profile. This is done through sync feature of web accounts which is a very nice feature of android OS. You can synchronize much more accounts than google or facebook by navigating into Settings > Accounts and Sync in your android phone.
But for most of the users have complaints about showing their private photos on gallery app. This is quite frustrating where there you have blogger accounts and your uploaded images are shown up in your smart phone gallery. however the removal of these pictures from gallery is not direct but is related to account sync. Here's how to remove picasa web albums from gallery of your android smartphone.
To disable Web pictures from gallery:
1. On your android phone, goto Settings > Accounts and Sync settings > manage accounts.
2. This will show up the internet accounts that you've currently synching. Open your gmail account and uncheck Picasa web albums. you're done.
3. After the media scan you'll notice that the picasa images are being removed from gallery.
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26 comments:
Doesn't work. There is no such listing (no doubt to compromise privacy) on Galaxy 4GS Gingerbread. I think I have to delete all my Picasa albums. HOw devious is Google?
gr8 thanks it works...cheers
great post... thx..
Thanks, very helpful :)
This didnt work for my Samsung galaxy tab 10.1. Any other solutions?
Doesn't works on Iconia A500 with Android 3.0
Just found the addition step. After uncheck the sync setting like on the article, goto Application -> Manage Application -> All, click on Gallery and Delete All Data. This will clearup the Picasa only, not pictures on local.
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my name is patrick . i just tried the last step but it says all data settings and accounts will be deleted, does that mean the gallery app will not be able to work ? please advise for i have private pics i need to delete...i have an motorola atrix and an a500 icona tablet where i can't delete picasa gallery pics .
thank you
Very nice article. Thank you
They only way to remove them from my XYboard was to use picasa's migrate option via PC and move the photos temporarily to a different account. Then turn off picasa sync on the device after they are removed.
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Worked for me on my Incredible 2. Thanks so much!
Yes yes yes am so happy it work for my lg optimous thank you
thanks it really helped and Aryo Sanjaya thanks to you as well as it made it completly satisfied.
attention
"automatic synchronization" have to be checked, becasue if is not checked, you dont have possibility to check/uncheck picasa, concatcs....
Thank you, Tomin Markose, that worked beautifully. I would never have figured that out on my own!
thanks man... u save my life from seeing the annoying folder
simple n helpful
Anonymous said...
attention
"automatic synchronization" have to be checked, becasue if is not checked, you dont have possibility to check/uncheck picasa, concatcs....
April 2, 2012 12:20 PM..............................................................................................
thank u.
Anonymous said...
attention
"automatic synchronization" have to be checked, becasue if is not checked, you dont have possibility to check/uncheck picasa, concatcs....
April 2, 2012 12:20 PM..............................................................................................
thank u.
thanks u ... for drawing thae attention to check the automatic syn box....:)
It worked with last comment's help.
Tried the same it works..but i want to know where are these pictures stored since i cant find them on google+ nor picassa webalbums..
Kiran - Samsung galaxy Ace Plus
excellent it worked on galaxy s after clearing gallery data
Yayyyy thx , it works for my tabs
I have a Nexus4G. This doesnt work! I need help
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