On January 3, 2024 Syracuse University will stop use discontinue availability of Google Photos as a supported app in the g.syr.edu domain Google Workspace. Before this application is discontinued, users should make an effort to migrate photos to a personal Google account or download them to a personally owned device.Google Photos is primarily a personal photo backup and storage system with no known ( or limited) use-cases, for teaching and learning, in the g.syr.edu domain. Google Photos consumes the same storage as Google Drive, competeing for the, upcoming, individual storage quotas. There is no way for the university Google admins to manage or control space usage that is allocated in Google Photos. Many universities have already disabled this application and this This action is also recommended by the Google's Workspace account team. , for Education plans, with many universities already disabling the application. Please see Google Workspace - Changes to Storage Limits for detailed information on upcoming, individual storage quotas.
Before this application is discontinued, on January 3, 2024, users should make an effort to migrate photos to a personal Google account or download them to a personally owned device.
Photo files can still be stored in a user’s personal drive space and shared like any other file within the current terms of use. Disabling the Google Photos application is necessary to prevent mobile device photo backup to the Google Photos mobile app using a g.syr.edu Google Workspace account.
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Google Photos should be copied to a personal Google account, a local hard drive, a portable hard drive, or your Syracuse University OneDrive storage. It is also important to stop any mobile devices from syncing photos to your Syracuse University g.syr.edu Google account.
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- On the left hand navigation menu, click Trash then choose Empty Trash.