Photos disappeared but reviews are still there?

Greetings- I had something new happen tonight and I was a bit frustrated because I have had a lot of photos and videos struggling my reviews -

only my reviews are showing, none of my visuals- has anyone else had this? Mostly my parks - I had a lot of awesome pictures particularly of animals :tired_face:

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Hello, @Travelcraaz I have not experienced this issue. I couldn’t see your reviews as your account is restricted.

@Travelcraaz

Your profile is still set to restricted.

If you want help to spot what could be the cause, you need to change your privacy setting as explained here temporarily. It can also be done from a Desktop computer. Goto Your contributions, then Profile settings, then toggle Restricted profile.

Cheers
Morten

Literally all of my photos have been taken off google- I don’t know what happened or if someone was upset and field a complaint but I am almost a level 9- I don’t ever write anything that isn’t true - how do I get it rectified and if someone was irritated can I get my other photos restored? That is a LOT of time providing data and insight for it to just get shut down- please provide with some guidance -

Thank you Morten- I think I was already restricted and I very rarely allow followers - I only have 33 I’ve probably declined 400 for what I think could have safety issues or trolls- I’m so frustrated because I have almost a thousand reviews and in the new system almost 5 million views and now none of my photos show up anywhere ….its discouraging- if I did irritate someone, I always have photos that I post with it and it is fact based- so much for freedoms

@Travelcraaz

I’m merging this post with the other one you shared about the same problems.

Cheers

Morten

@Travelcraaz

It would be very helpful if you would always use the tagging tool when replying to someone here on Connect. Type @ followed by the username. Type slowly. Then we get an e-mail notification and you are more likely to get a prompt reply. Just hitting Reply does not ensure we get notified by email.

You still have a restricted profile. So we can not help you.

I will request to follow you. If you accept that you don’t need to make your profile unrestricted.

Morten

@Travelcraaz

Thanks, I see your contributions now.

I can confirm from your public profile that you have added 783 reviews and only 543 of them are public.

Google has automatic filters that hide your reviews so only you can see them. This can happen when some of your reviews violate the review guidelines.

Read about typical review guideline violations here. And please see my latest post called 4 Tips on writing better reviews.

If you want to identify which of your reviews are hidden check this post.

And you have added 3500 pics+vids. And I don’t see any if them under See all photos. But photos do show under your public reviews.

This I have never seen before.

I noticed that a kid is clearly visible in the of your home depot videos. This is not following the guidelines.

Please use the form called Account Investigation for contributions not visible on Google Maps if you believe that some of your contributions have been wrongfully unpublished. Keep in mind, it takes several weeks for the check to be done, and you will not be notified about the result, so I suggest you check the status of your reviews once a week or so.

Best of luck
Morten

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