Google Photos’ old images getting ‘corrupted’ for some users – Times of India

Some Google Photos users have complained that the images they had stored on the cloud library over several years are getting “corrupted”. Users across Android, iOS and the web have reported this issue which is reflected in old photos, especially the ones that are 5 years or older.
Reports of this issue have been shared on the Google Photos Help page and some users have disclosed this problem on their Reddit accounts as well (spotted by 9to5Google).
However, it doesn’t seem like all the users are facing this issue. Google has even fixed the photos of some users over the last few days and the tech giant is expected to resolve the issue for all users soon.

How is the issue affecting Google Photos
Recently, some users started noticing that lines and deep cracks affected some images on their Google Photos library. These damages were rampant throughout some pictures and other pictures started showing blurry and distorted areas.
Some images were more damaged than others and users even noticed white dots appearing on some of their pictures. Moreover, some pictures were found with multiple patterns of impact or severity.
The damages on these digitally stored photos look like the ones that are caused by water damage on physical analogue images. Some of these affected users have also reported that the issue appears while downloading the image — for both individual downloads and even while using Google Takeout.

However, the original copies of these pictures seem unaffected and only some edited photos were found damaged in the Google Photos app.