Photos default to Date sorting, and user can change to sort by Views for other reasons. Reviews don’t give an option, so I scroll just as it is. So essentially both can be done in their default state. But perhaps I’m missing something here. Please let me know if I’m getting it wrong.
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Good news everyone my hidden reviews and media have been re-instated on Maps! Interestingly I did not receive any notification from Google that they had reviewed and approved my appeal. Once again I only discovered it had been resolved by viewing the T100 and looking at the stats summary! Thanks go to @AdamGT for this handy tool 
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Congratulations @IzzyOz!
This confirms my own experience and what I did read several times here on Connect.
I would add one word: “… by frequently viewing the T100 …”, because it can happen any time that older posts suddenly are hidden. For reviews, I received a mail telling my “could not be posted”, but for photos, we don’t know anything 
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@tony_b @StevenBerlin @WilfriedB and anyone else for that matter:
Further to my above cited comment, if you are having difficulty in finding the impacted contributions when your reviews and/photos are hidden then please let me know. I suggest you provide details including how many you believe are hidden and the approach/difficulties that you’ve had in finding them.
Well done @IzzyOz in the methodical approach you took to find your hidden reviews and photos and the success you had in having them changed back to publicly visible.
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Thank you @AdamGT for the assurance for providing a solution to this issue. This will be a very helpful tool for improving the quality of content on Google Maps, and the Local Guide account will be clear and safe from suspension.
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Ich habe aktuell 9 versteckte Rezensionen und habe festgestellt, dass alle Rezensionen von Schulen ausgeblendet wurden mit dem Hinweis ich brauche nichts zu tun, sobald sich die Gegebenheiten ändern würden die Rezensionen wieder hergestellt.
I have 210 hidden reviews and 428 hidden photos. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide a feature to help identify them. Thank you @AdamGT
Here we go @AdamGT:
The approach to scroll in parallel while logged in and in an anonymous browser session only works for photos when scrolling By Date.
When scrolling Reviews or Photos By Views, it never shows all, but stops scrolling at a certain point, while the round icon at the bottom keeps rotating.
I posted 676 reviews and 270 ratings, under anonymous it shows as 672 reviews and 268 ratings. Therefore 4 hidden reviews and 2 hidden ratings.
Scrolling reviews while logged in, shows me only 526 items (reviews + ratings) and anonymous shows 528. Since it includes reviews and ratings, it should be 946 respective 940 items. Besides the fact that anonymous even shows 6 more than logged-in, I couldn’t find any differences.
A Takeout dated April 17, 2025 has 952 items, which not only included all Reviews and Ratings, but also 6 captions posted as “Updates by Customers” (as I just found out).
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When i go to stats summary it shows some knowledgement page to accept something. I accept, nothing happens. There are no tools for me to use.
I have 10 hidden reviews in my testing you cannot find hidden reviews by a side by side comparison of incognito mode vs your mode. They are identical in numbers. No way to see a hidden review. I tested this 4 times with diff phones, regular computer, abd android and iphone.
I have 160 hidden photos, and i have tried many ways to do side by side comparisons with incognito mode vs normal scrolling. I used to be able to see the missing ones in incognito mode, but now no hidden photos ever show up. I also have 18k photos so its too time consuming to check now, and i have given up on this maps system being anywhere near close to working properly since last Feb. Most times now my phone wont even allow me to view photos in incognito mode anymore. My phone is top of the line, android, rebooted, current, etc.
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@AdamGT The VIP Lounge > Health > Hidden Media is just giving a blank white page now. Do you have a fix for that?
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Same here under Chrome and Firefox on Windows 10 @AdamGT and @tony_b. I also tried refresh Ctrl-R without result.
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Same here @tony_b @WilfriedB and @AdamGT on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. It is throwing blank page.
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@tony_b @Kumaarsantosh @AdamGT
As of this morning Hidden Media works again for me:
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Thanks @WilfriedB for letting us know. This is working for me too.
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Thanks @WilfriedB. I noticed that last night when I finally made the effort to search for my Hidden Media.
This is true, but even so it doesn’t seem to list all in the exact same order. I deleted two accidentally last night because I thought they were among my hidden ones. I’d uploaded 4 items to a POI - 2 on one day and 2 on another day. The 4 were together on my contributions page, but in the Incognito window I saw only 2. Later as I scrolled, I eventually discovered the other 2 a long way down the list at a different date. But by then I had already deleted them from the regular browser window.
By the way, I can’t actually delete via my computer’s web browser. It always says that the action “failed”. I then have to go to my phone and locate the photo to delete it there. Is this normal for everyone else? @IzzyOz @TerryPG @AdamGT @Annaelisa
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Normally, I can delete from the browser, but I saw cases, where it was already deleted, but the browser pretended at were still there, trying to delete it (again) brings that error message.
Correct, I noticed it too. Also, when look at the list today, the same list tomorrow might show some differences in the sequence.
Another reason, to strive for a programmatic solution.
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Danke für die Info @tony_b
Ich habe beschlossen in diesen Fällen nichts zu tun, ich lasse es so wie es ist und hoffe, dass vielleicht das eine oder andere wieder sichtbar wird.
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hii @IzzyOz , i can i get the link for this t1000 tool?
Hi @tony_b I haven’t recently deleted any photos but last time I did I used Chrome browser on my laptop. As @WilfriedB mentioned I have also had instances where the browser still shows the deleted photo and 
I have also experienced the list order changing from day to day as well.
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Hi @SharmaJii Here is the link for you to join the T100 system. You need to be aware though that some tools can only be accessed by VIP users. The T100 system is a wealth of information and we all eagerly anticipate the publishing of the monthly leaderboards by @AdamGT
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