Google photos removed the delete api endpoint. Now, in order to delete your own photos from their service, you have to automate browser interactions that batch by batch delete your photos. I've just done this with both my wife's and my google photos accounts, and it took over 24 hours of browser interactions to fully delete everything. Ridiculous.

On a tangent, I don’t understand how Apple’s App Store allows the Google Photos app to insist on being given access to all photos on your device rather than selected photos to even work (even just to view photos shared elsewhere). Seems like an obvious violation of privacy and terms around not requiring unnecessary permissions. I think the app should be banned until they provide an option to gracefully respect users’ privacy settings rather than holding unrelated features hostage if they don’t get to spy on every photo on your device.