This Google Photos bug made edited photos disappear

A simple photo edit could send Android apps on a wild goose chase. This Google Photos bug made edited photos disappear, and there’s finally a fix. Google Photos fixes bug that hid edited pictures from apps.

Mobile This Google Photos bug made edited photos disappear, and there’s finally a fix A simple photo edit could send Android apps on a wild goose chase. The issue affected photo pickers and apps like Google Messages, Gemini, and WhatsApp. Your perfectly edited photo is ready for its grand WhatsApp debut.

You open the app, tap the image picker, and suddenly your masterpiece pulls a disappearing act. Just an empty spot where your picture should be. For some Google Photos users, this wasn’t a magic trick.

It was an irritating bug that turned a routine photo edit into a game of hide-and-seek across Android apps.

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Over the summer, some folks found that these snaps were missing from the image picker in other apps, such as messaging and social media services. Saving an edited image as a copy rather than overwriting the original was said to work.

But for those who preferred to only have the edited version of a photo and ditch the original, this could have been an annoyance. It took Google some time to squash this bug but, according to APK Mirror founder Artem Russakovskii and the issue is resolved.

Your edited images should at last be free from Google Photos purgatory. This isn’t the only major Google Photos bug that popped up recently.

Last month, Google acknowledged an issue with the app that made the Share, Edit, Add to and Trash buttons on the bottom of the screen unresponsive on certain devices after a user made an edit.