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Download Google Photos…

This is a funny story for once. Usually stories are terrible experiences but this one was pretty fun.

Little background, I worked in tech support for cell phones and a lot of it spent transferring photos and such from broken/lost devices so a lot of it deals with various cloud services.

I’ll spare you the details of activating the phone and other things and get to the funny part.

Me: Alright, well we got the phone activated, since you don’t have the old phone, do you have anything that backed up your photos?

Customer: I might have had Google Photos downloaded, I’ll try that.

Keep in mind, I’m also logged into his phone so I can see everything on his screen (I don’t remember why I logged in since this was 3 years ago.)

Customer: Okay cool, I got logged in and it looks like all my photos are there… except there’s some extra ones… I don’t know who this guy is.

Me: ….You said your old phone was stolen right? And you have no idea who this guy is in these selfies

Customer: Correct.

Me: … Uhh, I’m willing to bet that this is the guy who stole your phone. He’s been taking selfies and Google Photos has been updating it to the cloud on the fly.

Customer: Well that’s super helpful. I’ll save these and turn it over to the police.

So the lesson to be learned, download Google Photos. You have tons of backup storage for free and if your phone is stolen there’s the possibility the thief is dumb enough to take selfies with your phone that you can access later on.

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