I have Samsung Galaxy S4 and my girlfriend owns the Samsung Galaxy S3. Recently, after a Facebook app upgrade, all her Facebook albums started to appear at her Gallery. Now she really has lots of pictures and that her Gallery looks like a mess! Not to mention that all those pictures take space/memory on her phone and that she don’t need several years old pictures from her Facebook account on her phone too.
Since I already had experience on how to remove Picasa Albums from Samsung Galaxy phones (an blog post article I wrote last year) I started trying out different things on how to get rid of those Albums from her Gallery app without having to delete them one by one. I needed a geek solution to this problem and after trying out different things I finally had it. (This solution doesn’t require you to uninstall and install Facebook app.)
So if you want to REMOVE those pictures you should skip “Masking the problem” section.
Masking the problem:
1. Open Gallery app.
2. Tap the Menu key then select Content to Display in the menu.
3. Disable/deselect Content in Facebook
This method will just hide the pictures so you don’t see them when you go to Gallery app but they will still stay on your phone and take up memory on your phone.
Removing Facebook albums and pictures from your phone:
1. Open Gallery app.
2. Tap the Menu key then select Settings in the menu.
3. Tap on your Facebook account and in the bottom click on Remove Account.
4. Go to Settings Tap Application manager.
5. Swipe to left until you reach the All screen.
6. Find Facebook and tap on it and press Clear Data
7. Find Gallery, tap on it and press Clear Data
8. Go to your Facebook app and log in again (since steps 3 and 6 logs you out).
This method should properly remove all your Facebook Albums from your Gallery app and your phone storage!
I sure hope this helped you out.
Don’t hesitate to leave any comments!
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Thank you. It works!
My tab updated and now all my apps and pics are gone where did they go and how do I get them back. On my tab I now have all my apps from my phone, really!!!!!
When I clear the data from my gallery is it going to delete all my current photos along with the Facebook ones? If so, is there a way around that?
No it won't delete any photos you made... Just the downloaded ones...
Hi, thanks for posting this!
Now I have a question, my son has the galaxy tab3 kids, and to be able to install any new apps we entered my wife's email account. Now the tablet is full with automatically saved pictures from her Facebook and other things. I mean it has 1000 pictures I want to remove but can't!
You happen to know how that works on a tab3 kids? I have done it on my Note 3 but can't remember how
It should work with all Android phones. You cold also create a new gmail account for your kid (he'll need it later) and then logout your wife's account from the Tab and singing the new kids account. This way their apps won't mix.
It worked !!! Thanks so much
Somehow my Facebook photos just recently synced with my phone. This process did the trick to remove them, and now my gallery is back to running fast again! Thank you so much.
Thank you. Although this issue was small it was annoying me all the same. Your solution worked great and was so simple I have to wonder how I didn't find this myself. Thanks again.
I hope this is the right place to ask! I have a Samsung Galaxy duos, model number GT-S7582. The problem I have is that I can't seem to sync my Facebook albums in the gallery (it works for Picasa, but not for Facebook). So I have the opposite problem! As far as I know the settings are right for syncing, only problem I can find is that in the gallery, if I choose 'content to display', it's not possible to select 'Content in Facebook'. The option is there, but I can not select it. Please help! It's really bugging me. I hope you have a solution for me!
This sounds like my problem but in reverse. I master reset my phone due to some issues I was having and upon restarting and setting it up the option to display facebook content while still there no longer allows me to check it. Can someone please help me with this. I need my facebook pics in my gallery. Thanks in advance...
Great! It worked for me. Removed Facebook photos without deleting those taken by the phone camaera.
Thank you
My "clear data" is grayed out???? Now what? HELP!