Update: This solution also removes the annoying sign in request from Picasa that is seen on some android devices.
When you first start using an Android phone it will request you to sign in to a Google account. Doing so automatically triggers a process that syncs your data and photos from your phone to your Google account and vice versa. This synchronization also downloads all your old Picasa web albums to your phone.
While this is a useful feature at times, it tends to be a problem when you really don’t want those pictures on your phone or need to save the space on your phone. Then it makes sense to disable this feature. Here is how to do it:
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- Go to Settings
- Here under “Accounts” select Google.
In older Android versions you will have to go to “Accounts and Sync” and find your account there. - Now select the account for which you want to disable the sync for.
- You will get a list of Google services that you can sync with. Uncheck the box next to “Google Photos” and “Google+ Photos” and in some versions of android uncheck even “Picasa Web Albums”
Now your phone will not sync with Picasa but your gallery might already have downloaded the web album info. To remove that info you will need to clear your Gallery app data. Here is how to do that:
- Go to Settings -> Application Manager
- Go to the tab titled “All”
- Scroll down and select “Gallery”
- Press the “Clear Data” button
- Open Gallery App, it might take a few seconds to start. Your Picasa albums should no longer be listed there.
7 replies on “How to Remove Picasa Albums from Gallery (and stop Sign In requests) – Android”
thank you worked for me
Google SUX!
This worked once upon a time, but something changed after an update. Even with all but one of my 6 Google accounts set to only sync Gmail, I was still getting Gallery / Picasa Web Albums log-in prompts multiple times a day. This morning, I couldn’t dismiss the prompts anymore. Swiping them away didn’t work, opening and choosing cancel didn’t either. I had to figure out how to get rid of them once and for all.
I long-pressed one of the notifications and saw a “settings” cog. Clicking that took me to the Google Play app, not Gallery. As soon as I unchecked “Show Notifications” in Google Play, the messages disappeared!
I’ve opened the Gallery app several times and the log in notifications seem to be gone for good.
Hope this helps!
This isn’t working anymore since the last update. I have several Google accounts on S5, Android 5.0 and Google +, Google Pictures, Picasa (and so on) only show on my primary and secondary accounts as options to tick/untick for sync settings. Obviously I need to disable picasa sync notifications for the other ones.
Unfortunately since last update: Settings > Accounts > “select account” does NOT have anything remotely close to pictures, gallery, picasa, Google+
I managed to get rid of the notification for now, but I bet they will pop up again in a few hours:
Settings > Application Manager > Google+ > clear data, clear cache, disable!
Good luck!
I had this issue with the Picasa notification, and none of the fixes I found seemed to work. Then I tried this:
1) Pull down notification bar
2) Press and hold the sign-in request notification until it changes. ( I think it was Google+ Services??)
3) Press the information (i) icon.
4) Deselect the notification check box.
This worked for me.
THANKS BRO IT WORKS FOR ME TOO!
Seems to have worked for me, too. THANK YOU!!! That thing was driving me bananas.