Great, @MoniDi , thank you so much for confirming.
A question that comes to my mind is: when (if) a review is restored, will the counter be updated too?
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Yes, it should, but sometimes it may take a while for the number to be updated.
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I was going to ask the same thing, hehe, thanks for the proactivity @ErmesT and @MoniDi for the information; duly noted.
And thank you for reinstating my reviews, it’s awesome, if I am correct, none of them are hidden now, even the ones that were hidden in the EU. I knew from @ErmesT that I had to appeal for them one by one, I just didn’t get to them yet, first I was raising the ones outside of EU, via the form. I greatly appreciate the fairly quick action!
I just have one question, I am noticing photos missing from my reviews tho, photos that showed only food, no people. I have an iPhone and my photos are constantly being synced to my cloud, so it can happen that by the time I review a place and attach the photos, they’re already in the cloud and only a lower resolution image is on my phone. Can that affect the upload? Is it possible, that some of my pictures are missing due to this? Or should my phone be downloading the original image when I am making a review and adding the photos?
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Sorry @MoniDi for the tag again, I noticed your like, but are you able to give an answer to my question above? (Cc: @ErmesT maybe you’d know too?!)
“I am noticing photos missing from my reviews tho, photos that showed only food, no people. I have an iPhone and my photos are constantly being synced to my cloud, so it can happen that by the time I review a place and attach the photos, they’re already in the cloud and only a lower resolution image is on my phone. Can that affect the upload? Is it possible, that some of my pictures are missing due to this? Or should my phone be downloading the original image when I am making a review and adding the photos?”
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Hi @NoemiJ, there is indeed a chance that low quality photos may be removed from the Map. Please take a moment to read the Tips for posting media to Maps. If you think that your photos are okay and follow our guidelines, please fill in this form and the relevant team will investigate your contributions.
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Hi @MoniDi thank you for that, yes I am aware of the guidelines.
I’m still wondering though whether really a low resolution image is being uploaded or does the full size image gets dowloaded from icloud when reviewing on Google maps and adding pictures.
Like if you open a picture into any photo editing app / video into video editing app, they get dowloaded before you could import it/edit it in said photo/video editing app.
Does Google map forces the media to be downloaded or does it just take the low resolution one from the phone?
@NoemiJ, I think it depends where you take your photos from once you choose to add them to Google Maps. If you select your photos from Google Photos, they might have been compressed already depending on your settings. If you select them from your phone, they should be the same size. In any case, you can ask your question in the Google Maps help forum.