How to delete an old photo of mine on Maps?

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A local business just emailed me and asked me to delete an old storefront photo because they moved. It is from October 2022, and scrolling down on my photo contribution list with 22K photos is not realistic. Even on desktop it takes forever to scroll down and often my scrolling gets disturbed, and I will need to start over from the top…

I have now spent over an hour trying to delete this photo.

I remotely remember a method to delete our own photos from the place sheet, but I can’t find it now. I tried on Desktop and on Android to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Dear @MortenCopenhagen have you tried :

Android device
Go on the establishment sheet → Tab Photos → last section on the right : By you

And you will see all pictures you have upload from this place

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@christophesubilia has suggested the correct way to delete that photo. @MortenCopenhagen

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@MortenCopenhagen
I support @christophesubilia as well. Please let us know what you decide and what worked for you.

Cheers

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Hi @MortenCopenhagen

If you know which company it is, your comment will appear at the top when you search the website and log in to Google. You can delete the photo from there. You can ask for the name of the place where you made the comment when they contact you.

When you log out of Google, the system determines which comment will appear at the top. As a level 7 local guide, 95% of my comments are at the top. After you comment, the system ranks you according to whether you are a guide or not and the content of the comment.

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Hi @Murat

This is a photo and not a review.

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Perfect, @christophesubilia

It worked. I have no idea why I did not see that. Proabably because I only looked under “All” and not “By you”. It was super easy to find my pic under “All” because it was the coverphoto, so there was no need to use “By you”.

Thanks a bunch.

Here is a screenshot for reference:

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I selected your reply as the solution. Thanks again.

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Ok perfect ! :ok_hand:

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We sometimes include photos in comments. You can delete a photo you’ve shared by editing your comment. If you added the photo to Google Maps in a different way, it will be a bit of a hassle when you want to remove it.

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I rarely add my photos to a review. I got a brilliant solution from @christophesubilia

Using that method removes the hassle.

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Hello @MortenCopenhagen it seems the photo has been deleted properly. when trying to access it I found the message “No user photo available here.”

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Thanks for confirming. As Google Maps photos are distributed over thousands of servers it can take some hours to take effect.

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… because on the desktop this option does not exist under the “By you” tab. I just rechecked.

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Not quite. I searched both platforms.

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