My photos are not showing on Google Maps for over a year

Hi Google Maps Team,

For the past year, none of my uploaded photos appear publicly on Google Maps. I can see them in My Contributions, but they do not show up on the actual business/place listings for other users.

I only upload my own original photos, mainly food at restaurants. I have never posted offensive, duplicate, or copied content. I enjoy helping others through my contributions, but it is discouraging that my photos have been invisible for such a long time.

Could you please review my account? It looks like it may have been restricted by mistake. I would be very grateful if my photos could be restored.

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Hi, @epolina , hope you are doing good. As per your query that your photos are not visible to the public and are hidden as they can be seen in your contributions done by you only. I will suggest you to fill the Google Local Guides Appeal Form which can help you to recover your photos contributions and make them visible for the public. I hope this will work for you :folded_hands:

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Hi @epolina , welcome to Connect
I did a quick check, and I can see your contributions in the businesses
A few examples


However it’s true that 76 of your photos and 15 of your reviews are not publicly visible.
Can you provide more details, some screenshots and some link related to the not visible photos?
This may help to provide better information about how to fix the issue

Thank you

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Are you sure your most recent postings are properly being uploaded? I’m not seeing any photos on your profile newer than 7 months ago.

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Hi @ErmesT thank you for your reply! Here is for example:

  1. Google Maps


2. Google Maps


3. Google Maps
It has been very upsetting and discouraged me from writing reviews.

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Hi @tony_b I added few screenshots in the reply above. Thank you!

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Thanks for the link and the screenshots, @epolina
I will escalate the issue to the team

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