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Final 12 months, on an ideal spring day that additionally occurred to be my birthday, I took a automobile journey to a stupendous space of New York state. It was a stunning day. The brand new foliage was simply popping out and flocks of migrating birds have been flying overhead — simply the precise day for a bunch of pictures and good recollections.

Sadly, my purpose for touring upstate wasn’t for the natural world, however to attend the funeral of my finest pal. I took a lot of pictures on that day: of different associates who attended the service, of the river paths and native parks that my finest pal and I used to stroll collectively, and of the house she used to share together with her dad and mom, now empty. I took all of these pictures as a result of I knew it was most likely the final time that I might go to that place. 

And one 12 months later, predictably, Google popped up in my notifications with an invite to revisit the “great” recollections of that day. It was not one thing I wanted — or needed — a reminder of, particularly a peppy reminder that assumed I had a beautiful time and needed to share all these exhilarating recollections with all my associates.

I’m fairly positive I’m not the one one who finds these pop-ups much less of a pleasure and extra of an emotional arrow headed into your coronary heart.

In fact, you possibly can keep away from these notifications by simply pulling out of the web or muting all your notifications — however for those who’ve received associates you need to keep up a correspondence with or notifications which might be essential to you, that gained’t work. As well as, it’s possible you’ll like having a few of these reminiscence reminders seem — simply not all of them. What if, say, you need to merely keep away from pictures of an ex or of the journey the place you made a complete idiot of your self?

Maybe due to all of the complaints, among the extra egregious offenders — Google Images, Apple Images, Fb, and Microsoft OneDrive — have methods which you could cease them from showing. Relying on the app, you possibly can tweak your settings to keep away from particular reminiscence notifications — or cease them altogether.

Right here is how one can rein in undesirable recollections from these 4 apps.

You may tweak the Recollections characteristic in Google Images to cease particular teams of pictures or carry it to a complete halt. The method differs relying on whether or not you’re utilizing a desktop or cellular app.

(Sure, it could be good if Google’s newest AI characteristic — no matter they need to name it — might do that for you with a single request, however as with so many different issues, AI shouldn’t be fairly there but.)

• Go to Settings (the cog within the upper-right nook) and scroll all the way down to Recollections.
• If there’s a particular date that you just don’t need to be reminded of (or a number of particular dates), choose Disguise dates > Add dates and add the date (or date vary) you need to keep away from.
• If there’s a particular particular person or pet you don’t need to be reminded of, choose Disguise folks & pets. You’ll see a set of all of the faces that Images has present in your photographs. Click on on one you don’t need to see, and it is going to be grayed out with a “don’t see” image. Click on on it once more if you wish to restore it.
• If you happen to don’t need any pop-up recollections in any respect, disable Time-based recollections and Themed recollections.

• Faucet your private icon (within the upper-right nook) and Images settings > Preferences.
• Choose Recollections.
• Select Disguise folks or Disguise dates to cease recollections of particular folks or dates. (These work in the identical manner because the “disguise” characteristic within the desktop app.)
• To disable pop-up recollections, choose Notifications and disable Time-based recollections or Themed recollections.

If you happen to use the Apple Images iPhone app, there are a selection of how you possibly can reduce or cease folks or occasions from popping up once they’re not needed by way of the app’s Recollections options.

To manage how usually you see a particular particular person, pet, or different content material:

• Within the Images app, discover a image of the particular person you don’t need to be reminded of.
• Faucet the three dots within the top-right nook and choose Characteristic This Particular person Much less.
• Choose Characteristic This Particular person Much less or By no means Characteristic This Particular person.

If you wish to make sure content material seem much less usually:

• Go to the For You tab in Apple Images, choose a reminiscence, and faucet the three dots within the upper-right nook.
• Faucet on Characteristic Much less after which Verify.

If you happen to’re the type of one who will get irritated by being bombarded with vacation pictures (and imagine me, I sympathize), then you possibly can particularly cease these in your fundamental settings:

• In Settings, choose Images.
• Scroll all the way down to Present Vacation Occasions and toggle it off. 

And so long as you’re there — if you wish to flip off Recollections altogether in your iPhone (which will even minimize off Featured Images):

• Go to Settings > Images.
• Scroll all the way down to Present Featured Content material and toggle it off.

Yeah, I do know — it’s Fb. Nevertheless it’s additionally the place plenty of your family members are, so it’s exhausting to let it go. However you don’t should let it consistently remind you of stuff you don’t need to be reminded of.

• Within the aspect menu, choose Recollections > Notifications.
• If you wish to cease Recollections altogether, choose None beneath Notifications. 
• If you wish to cease Recollections of particular folks or dates, or utilizing key phrases, go to Disguise Recollections decrease down on the web page and choose the suitable class.

• Faucet your private icon within the upper-right nook, and choose Recollections.
• Choose the Settings (cog) icon.
• If you wish to cease Recollections altogether, choose None beneath Notifications. 
• If you wish to cease Recollections of particular folks or dates, or utilizing key phrases, search for Disguise Recollections decrease down on the web page and choose the suitable class.

Microsoft, to not be left behind, presents OneDrive Recollections. Fortunately, it’s straightforward to show off.

• You may go on to OneDrive’s Notifications possibility by going to this hyperlink; in any other case, for those who’re utilizing the web site, click on on the cog within the upper-right nook and go to Choices > Notifications. 
• You’ll see a number of selections for Ship me e-mail when. Uncheck the field subsequent to On at the present time recollections can be found.

• On the cellular app, faucet Me (your private icon within the lower-right nook), then Settings > Notifications.
• You may then disable notifications for On at the present time and Recollections from final month.