How To Delete Photos On Google Maps, Easy And Not Hard

How to delete photos on Google Maps (Blogspot)

YOGYAKARTA - Google Street View often displays photos of places in their application, which are taken from public uploads on the internet. It also makes some people object because it is considered a violation of privacy, especially if the photos shown show their homes.

The photo display on Google Street View was originally intended to make it easier for users to find the location they are looking for. However, this has often been protested by people around the world because it is considered not to have permission to display the image.

However, users can actually delete photos displayed by the Google Street View feature in a way that you can find in this article.

Therefore, if you are one of the people who have been harmed because pictures of houses or streets around where you live are displayed on Google Street View, users can delete them through the Google Maps application. However, if the photo is not yours, the user can only blur parts of the house without being able to delete it permanently.

However, if the photo is an image that you take and upload to the internet, users can delete it permanently with the steps that have been compiled by VOI team below.

How to Delete Photos on Google Maps

To remove a photo that is considered a violation of your privacy, users can open the Google Maps application, and enter your home address or other places that belong to you and is the location of the object from the photo displayed by Google Street View.

Next, click the "Contribute" icon on the Google Maps page, and go to your "Profile" page. Click the "Photos" menu and select the photo you want to remove from Google Street View.

For the record, by deleting your photo that appears on Google Street View, it will also disappear from Google search engines as well as other uploads on the internet.

However, the photos will still be accessible via Google Drive, if you have sync enabled and also available on Google Photos, if you've enabled the backup and sync features in the service.

Apart from deleting via the Google Maps app, you can also delete photos directly in the Street View app, in much the same way.

That's the way that can be used to delete photos that are displayed by Google Street View, but are considered to violate your privacy.

Users can take the steps above to delete photos that are considered to violate privacy, instead of making a fuss about it on social media.