Это изменение Google ломает некоторые цифровые фоторамки

Google is changing the way apps access Google Photos libraries, which is causing problems for some digital photo frame owners. While the изменение is intended to make your photo library more private, it also breaks digital photo frames like Aura and Cozyla, which automatically update slideshows on their devices.

Aura creates cloud-based photo frames that display digital images added by you or anyone you’ve given access to the photo frame. While the company offers several ways to get your photos onto your device, one cool feature is that you can create a Google Photos album of, say, your kids’ photos, and then turn on auto-sync to automatically add any new photos from the album to your frame. That way, you can share the album with Grandma’s Aura frame, and she’ll get a constant stream of new photos of her grandchildren.

However, according to Janice Curry, Aura’s senior director of communications, Aura will turn off the auto-sync feature with Google Photos on March 17, 2025. While Grandma’s album will still be on the frame, it will no longer automatically update with new photos you add to it. Instead, you’ll have to manually add photos through the Google Photos app.

Aura is forced to do this because Google is changing its Google Photos API, which the company announced last September and which will take effect on March 31. Curry says Aura is getting ahead of the changes to help customers adapt.

The change limits apps’ access to your photo library and no longer allows for integrated access to your entire library or management of shared albums. Instead, apps can only access photos or albums through the new Google Photos Picker API, which requires users to manually “select” each photo.

“We had a deeper integration with Google