Google photos keeps crashing My google photos app keeps crashing whenever I open it. Sometimes it crashes in the background. I tried some fixes like clearing data, reinstalling, deleting big video files, maintaining nearly 4GB space etc. None of these fixed. I also tried an old version of the app which previously was working fine, now that one is also crashing.

I have the latest app version. I am on stock rom of 6.0.1 android version. My device is Lenovo K6 Power.

Since it keeps my photos synced to google cloud, so I would like it fixed rather than any alternative.



My findings :


App crashes when media scan is started.
Every version of app is crashing.
I was having the same problem every time I oppended the app it crashed and I found that if i oppened it with wifi off it worked just fine so it had something to be with the automatic back up, I went to settings and allowed Backups trough cellular data and It started backing up just fine, then I turned off that option, went back to Wifi and all worked just fine, My guess is that a particular video or photo that was beeing uploades caused the crash with wifi so once it was uploaded with the cellular data the crash was no longer there, hope it helps.

I Have a Pixel 2 XL with Oreo 8.1