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Jazuara
Explorer
Status: New Idea

While this is a minor issue, I am always in frustration when I am unable to delete photos from the Meta Quest App itself. This would be a very useful and helpful quality of life improvement!

51 Comments
Ju2ef
Honored Guest

This is a serious breach of GDPR and Meta must fix it to stay compliant with the law! @MarkZuckerberg please do something

robnotious
Explorer

I can't believe you can't do this. People have been raising this for a year with zero action from Meta. Sort it out.

DannNimmDenNamen
Explorer

Possible solution:

When I click on the media on the mobile app (android) and it plays/shows I get a trash icon at the top, this deleted the file from my phone. 

mond_uk
Honored Guest

Will videos clps get removed after a certain period of time if I tried to manually delete them? I have a 2 second clip that  I didn't choose to sync to my device but showed it up on my phone after I synced the next game clip I recorded. I have automatic sync turned off and only  selected the second clip to sync, but it still synced everything.

The clip I did want to sync didn't show up for hours, presumably because it was much larger, but now that 2 second clip I can't get rid of.

albertolarah
Honored Guest

It seems absurd to me that in 2023 you can delete images and videos from virtual glasses but if it has already been synchronized with the app you cannot delete it from the gallery.

In addition to being an absurd option that it doesn't have, it seems to me to be a huge security problem since it suggests which meta is the owner of your content.

animkated
Honored Guest

I have a ton of old videos in my meta quest app on my phone that I do not want. I realize they are in the cloud and not taking up space on my device but they make it difficult to find the gallery images/videos I actually want to use/keep. It's honestly shocking this is not possible. is there any other photo gallery on any app or any website anywhere that doesn't let you delete things? Completely ridiculous.

Unafraid9
Explorer

@mond_uk I read in another post from a Meta associate that it's supposed to be automatically deleted after 14 days, but guess what... i have a screenshot that's stuck in the cloud since August 30, 2023 and it's November. Along with videos that i didn't know i had to unsync before deleting them on the headset.

ZhFei
Explorer

When I used the camera function of Quest3, I synchronized a picture to my mobile device, and then I deleted the photo in Quest3. I thought the mobile device would delete the photo at the same time, but it was not deleted. This photo can still be viewed on mobile devices. I thought there was something deleted, but it seems there wasn't. This is so unreasonable!

daveanslow
Honored Guest

It’s in contravention of right to erasure legislation and GDPR law. Meta urgently need to address this issue.

Xenzo86
Honored Guest

Please implement this asap, it's irritating.