Question How Can I Delete Email Addresses That Appear in the Share Function of My Photos App

[Skeezix]

I have Pixel 7 Pro. When I tap Photos, I see a Share icon at the bottom of the app. When I tap the Share icon, I see 4 or 5 email addresses that I cannot get rid of. Two of them are in my Contacts list, but two others are NOT in my Contacts list. Those two are 3-4 months old. They appeared while I was learning Google Home Drive for desktop. Over the past few months I've tried everything that I can find to delete those two but I have failed. They only appear in my photos-related apps.

How can I get rid of specific email addresses in the Share function of Photos? (Forget the WhatsApp icons-I've since deleted the WhatsApp app.

 

[Skeezix]

Here's what I did to remove the unwanted email addresses that appear when tapping Photos>Share:

Went to the Play store, found the Google Photos app, and tapped Uninstall. This uninstalled the updates but did not uninstall the app itself.

When I then tapped Photos>Share, the addresses were removed and only the Gmail addresses remained. GREAT!

But when I then updated the Photos app, the screen shown in my previous message reappeared. Go figger...

 

[Skeezix]

UPDATE: The above instructions no longer works. Now no matter how many times I uninstall Google Photos updates and then update Google Photos, the unwanted addresses still appear.

 

[mustang7757]

I don't think pixels can change this by default like how Samsung can .

 

[Skeezix]

From what I've been able to obtain from old messages about this problem (circa 2018 and up), it's a known issue that Google either cannot or will not correct. I suspect the latter to be true. I've sent feedback to Google to no avail. Oh well, guess I'll just live with it.

 

[Sizzers]

I don't think pixels can change this by default like how Samsung can .

Hello!

This is also a massive annoyance to myself.

So how's this done on Samsung? Through Good Lock or have I missed something elsewhere?

Thanks.

 

[mustang7757]

Hello!

This is also a massive annoyance to myself.

So how's this done on Samsung? Through Good Lock or have I missed something elsewhere?

Thanks.

Yes through the Home Up module

 

[Sizzers]

Yes through the Home Up module View attachment 371408View attachment 371409

Had no idea and thanks for the heads up - tidies up the mess a bit!

 

[Skeezix]

I wonder what it would take for Google to add this to their phones... it sure would be nice not to have "telling" email addresses appear!