Disable /e/Cloud's automatic sync of Contacts and/or Media (Photos and videos)

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Mission:

To disable automatic sync of Contacts, Photos and Videos from your smartphone to /e/Cloud. It is turned on by default for ease of use as of yet. The following instructions will definitely help you keep it local.

Prerequisites:

  • A phone running /e/OS and configured with /e/ account

Let’s roll.

  1. Open /e/OS Settings to access Accounts settings

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  1. Tap on your /e/ account to enter the Account sync settings

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  1. In Account Sync settings, you can turn OFF for the Sync for ‘Address books’ and ‘Pictures and videos’ as seen in the image below.

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Media and Contacts on your phone will not sync to the /e/Cloud any more.

Thanks for reading!

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@manish, thanks for your continuous writing. :+1:

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Thanks for motivation! :smile:

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I know that writing can be enjoyable, but it’s also some kind of work. And a thank you is the least you should get.

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I recently got into technical content writing after Linode paid for my Wireguard and VPN killswitch guides. I use to work for nordic VPN companies.

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Fine. We can still expect a lot, right?

And /e/ OS 9-Pie is for your Oneplus 5 - cheeseburger also on the way …

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That is just good news. Official /e/ROM finally! @thilo’s ROMs are no less in terms of stability and performance though.

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@manish, Thanks for your guide, but I do not seem to have the switches next to the items to be synced. I am running /e/ 0.7-o-2020012438713-dev-pioneer on a Sony XA2 (H4113). I’d like to turn off any sync and see no way, can you help?

Best Regards

Silvan

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Hi @Silvan same screen for me :thinking: on FP3

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So weird since I post my message I got the switch available :sweat_smile:

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Great, but how did you do that??
I was warned about my space on e getting low because it kept synchronizing all the stuff and I cannot seem to do anything about it.
Might Android 8.1 be to old to have this switch?

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For me the solution was not at all obvious but worked: Settings > Accounts > Allow to synchronize data (or something like this, I have this in another language) ON. Then I get the switches to turn what I want OFF.

Its the most unintuitive thing ever to allow synch when you dont want it, because when you turned that OFF everything is synched by default.
What the fuck.

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