I have just got my Samsung Galaxy S4 and I have noticed that it has imported all of the pictures and albums from Goole Picasa to my gallery. I find that very anoying and I was looking for a way how to stop it from doing it so. Here’s how to solve it.
First check if auto data sync is enabled:
1. Go to Settings and at Connections tab select Data Usage
2. In properties enable Auto sync Data (To get the properties click on the button on the left side from your Home button on your phone at the bottom right side)
After that’s done let’s disable the Picasa
1. Go to Settings and at Accounts tab select Google and then select your Gmail account (most of you have only one, I have three and if you have more than one repeat the following step for every account)
2. On the next page disable Sync Picasa Web albums (and you can also disable Sync Google+ Photos)
That will prevent future pictures from being downloaded from Picasa to your phone, now let’s clear the current ones:
0. NOTE: If you have the phone running on latest Android (Marshmallow) please scroll down since this changed a bit so following three steps are slightly different now.
1. Go to Settings and at More tab enter Application Manager
2. Once you’re into Application Manager at the top go trough the tabs above until you reach move the tab All
3. Then and find Gallery application, click on it and then click on Clear Data button and confirm.
Now you will no longer have Picasa pictures in your Gallery on your Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGS4) phone. This guide also works on Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy S5 and probably on some other Galaxy phones. If you have just bought a new Galaxy phone check out some cool accessories, chargers and cases for your phone:
26th July 2014 Update: Added a blog post on how to remove Facebook Albums from Gallery app on Samsung Galaxy S3 or S4.
27th June 2014 Update: I have added screenshots made with my phone to help you out disable Picasa on your Galaxy Phone even easier. If you phone is in other language switch it to English, then disable Picasa as descibed above in the post and then switch the language back to your preferred language. This will minimize chance of making an error.
29th September 2016 Update: Users of newer devices running on latest Android (Marshmallow) should use this guide:
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Thanks for posting this! Ive been trying to figure out how to solve this problem ever since getting my phone! What's funny is that the Picasa images dont even show up in my gallery, until I create an message and click to attach an image to it, then all of a sudden there are all these extra galleries!
Thanks again!! :0)
THANK YOU THANK YOU I have been trying to do this since It happened
Thank you! I even had Samsung S4 Tech Support help me and they could not fix it. I decided to Google it and found this great information...
I am can't delete my pictures off my phone auto backup in image
If i clear all will it delete all of my non picasa pictures?
If you follow the instructions carefully, only Picasa pictures from your phone will be removed. Nothing else.
Excellent!
Thank you so much for the instructions. I have now deleted hundreds of gym photos that I never downloaded.
I did loose some other photos I took and somehow were saved to Picaso, but they can be replaced.
Many, many thanks,
Nan
It was so helpful thank you very much
Thank you so much for this! The issue was driving me mad!
I HAVE SAMSUNG GALAXY Y DUOS AND SG S4, AND WAS SURPRISED TO SEE A PHOTO ON BOTH THESE PHONES WHICH I HAD NEVER CLICKED. IT WAS ANNOYING TO SEE THAT I COULD NOT DELETE THE PHOTO FROM ANY OF THESE PHONES. I EVEN DID FACTORY RESET OF SAMSUNG GALAXY DUOS AND GOT IRRITATED TO SEE THE PHOTO APPEARING AGAIN IN THE GALLARY.
I, REALLY THANK YOU FOR SOLVING MY PROBLEM IN BOTH THESE PHONES, BY FOLLOWING THE STEPS GIVEN BY YOU HOW TO DISABLE SYNC AND CLEAR DATA TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
THANKS ONCE AGAIN
Thank you so much! Perfect :)
Thank you very much.
thank you!!! you are genius!
man thank you, you saved me
Thank you so much for taking the time to post these instructions! I was going crazy trying to delete this pesky picasa content.
This will not delete my other Gallery photos will it? I only want to remove the picasa pics...
It will remove just pictures from Picasa...
Although I have disabled the sync between Picassa and my phone, I just can't seem to delete the Picassa pics from my phone. Please help!
This really worked thanks soooo muchhh