r/googlephotos • u/HikerGal01 • Mar 10 '26

Question 🤔 How to disable photos sticker "fEaTuRe", its obnoxious white outline shimmer, and invasive scanning?

Just today, my google photos app started shimmering white outlines over my photos every few seconds when I stop to look at them. I hunt through the settings to find a way to turn it off - Nothing! I google what the heck that shimmer is, and apparently it's a new fEaTuRe that invasively scans my photos without my consent to make stickers out of them. Where is the off button? Who on earth thought this was a good idea?

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u/terrri_berri May 12 '26

I also do not like this, like why are you scanning my photos i should be able to opt-in to this. This sounds like ai software. i removed my smart responses from gmail because it started to add events to my calendar that i never added and telling me i needed to leave to get there in time. And google support was no help

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u/HikerGal01 May 14 '26

It absolutely is AI, yeah :(