What could be a major cause of concern for customers as it turns out to be a breach of privacy is a fact that Google Photos, the recently launched app, will continue to upload pics unless manually disabled from doing so. This remains valid even when the app is deleted from the user's device, creating a failed user experience and affecting the popularity of the app adversely.

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According to Android Authority, Google Photos, the photo uploading app that was launched last month, has a major flaw. Due to this fault, the app will continue to upload photos until users go to the main settings menu and disable it.

Even when the app is deleted from the device, it will continue to do the upload unless blocked through the disable option. Until users don't turn off the Google Photo Backup option in the Android settings menu, their pictures will be uploaded to the web. This creates quite a confusion for the end user. The pictures are uploaded to cloud and stored even when the users may probably not want to do so.

Irish Examiner points out that the Google Photo Uploader settings are somehow linked to the Android settings option and therefore will upload pictures in spite of being uninstalled from the device. On its part, Google was quick to respond to the problem, spotted by Nashville Business Journal writer David Arnott. Answering the queries raised by Arnott, Google said that the app was working fine and exactly as intended; however, disabling the auto backup is something that most users are not going to be aware of.

For users who are not clear about how the app works, seeing their personal photos on the web, especially after the app has been deleted, can be quite shocking. Given this problem, the app is most likely to lose its popularity to other viable options, like Flickr, that are easy to use and relatively easy to manage. The issue has recently been highlighted and its impact is yet to be witnessed.

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