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B. Diddy Welcome to Android Central! Do you also have an S21? You've already tried the things suggested in this thread, I assume?
If all else fails, you can always use your file manager app to navigate to the /DCIM/Camera directory and manually delete the photos there, since you know they're already backed up to Google Photos.
Hi there, im having the same issue. 40gb to free up and my phone is full. Everything is backed up. Permissions on. Cache and data cleared. Reinstalled app. Now instead of saying there's 40gb to free up it says there is nothing to free up even though the synced photos are still on my device.
I deleted 1 photo from Gallery to see if it would stay backed up in google photos but it did not. It reflects anything I delete. How do you manually delete from device without accidentally deleting from the sync/ backup?