There's no shortage of ways to store your photos and videos in the cloud.
If you accidentally backed up your photos on the wrong Google account, you can move them to a different account. To change the account that you backed up your photos to, share your photo library with that account. Learn to share your Google Photos library with another account. Google Photos will work behind the scenes to automatically back up your photos—and depending on your photo quality needs, the backups are both free and unlimited. Once backed up, you can even delete photos from your device to reclaim precious disk space. Your storage is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. What's on your phone matters. If it's on your phone, it's important to you. Get the peace of mind of having the stuff you care about on your phone—photos, videos, contacts, and more—backed up with the Google One app. In your Google Account, you can see and manage your info, activity, security options, and privacy preferences to make Google work better for you. Back up unlimited photos and videos for free, up to 16MP and 1080p HD. Access them from any phone, tablet, or computer on photos.google.com – your photos will be safe, secure, and always with you.
At Mashable, Google Photos has quickly become our favorite online photo and video storage service because it's free and offers unlimited storage, as long as you're OK with photos being no larger than 16-megapixels and videos no greater than 1080p full HD resolution.
See also: How to back up your Android phone or tablet
Another reason we love Google Photos: It's super easy to get your photos and videos from all your devices into one place. Here's how to do it.
iOS and Android
Google Photos is available as a free app for iOS and Android. If you own a Nexus device with the latest version of Android or a device running a stock version of Android, you may already have it installed.
Once downloaded, it's a matter of letting it auto upload all of your photos and videos into the cloud. If you have tens of thousands of photos and videos like me, it may take quite a bit of time to get your files.
Mac, Windows, camera and memory cards
Auto-uploading your photos and videos from your computer, camera and memory cards is equally as easy.
First, go to the Google Photos website and download the Desktop uploader. Install the app and then log into your Google account.
You'll then be prompted to choose backup sources. On Mac, the app automatically includes your iPhoto Library, Apple Photos Library, Desktop and Pictures folders, but you can click the 'Add folder' button to add more folders or select an external storage location like a camera, memory card or hard drive. Slots jackpots casino poker. You can also, of course, deselect the default backup sources.
We recommend leaving the 'Photo size' set to 'High quality (free unlimited storage).' Click OK and the photos and videos in the selected backup sources will start uploading into Google Photos in the background; new photos and videos added to the folders will automatically upload.
Manual upload
If auto-uploading and backing up your photos and videos from your computer is too extreme, you can always manually upload photos by going to photos.google.com, logging in and clicking the little cloud button with the 'up' arrow inside of it, which is located at the top of the screen.
Alternatively, you can drag and drop files or folders directly into Google Photos to upload them.
Transferring from Flickr
There's no way to directly import your photos from Flickr and upload them to Google Photos. Instead, you'll need to download your Flickr photos and then re-upload them to Google's photo service.
To download Flickr photos, select the ones you want under the Camera Roll tab and click the 'Download' button located at the bottom of the screen. Once the zip folder containing the photos is downloaded, unzip it and manually upload the folder or individual files into Google Photos, as outlined above in the manual upload section.
Transferring from Facebook
Like Flickr, there's no direct way to import your photos from Facebook to Google Photos. Getting your photos off Facebook is also more of a hassle.
You've got two options: 1) manually download all the photos you want and re-upload to Google Photos or 2) download all of your Facebook data, locate your photos and videos, and then re-upload to Google Photos. The latter will get you all your Facebook photos, but the process of downloading all your Facebook data takes an eternity.
Amazon, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.
The situation is similar to getting your photos from other cloud services into Google Photos. You'll need to download pictures and videos to a computer and then re-upload them manually into Google Photos.
We know, it's time-consuming — and figuring out how to download all photos and videos can be a real pain if there's no 'download all' button. But look on the bright side, once they're all stored in Google Photos, you'll be able to search pictures for people and objects using its powerful search feature.
BONUS: The search for the ultimate smartphone camera
I have uploaded photos to Google Photos. Now I would like to download these pictures from Google photos to my new Android phone. But Google Photos only allow me to download one photo at a time. How to download all photos from Google Photos at once?
Google Photos works great in backing up photos to cloud storage and syncing them over all devices, while it neglects users' need to download photos, especially all photos, from the service. When you need to download photos from Google Photos to PC, Mac, iPhone or transfer pictures from Google Photos to gallery, you can follow these tips.
You May Like:
How to Download All Photos from Google Photos to PC/Mac
Google Photos is available as a free app for iOS and Android. If you own a Nexus device with the latest version of Android or a device running a stock version of Android, you may already have it installed.
Once downloaded, it's a matter of letting it auto upload all of your photos and videos into the cloud. If you have tens of thousands of photos and videos like me, it may take quite a bit of time to get your files.
Mac, Windows, camera and memory cards
Auto-uploading your photos and videos from your computer, camera and memory cards is equally as easy.
First, go to the Google Photos website and download the Desktop uploader. Install the app and then log into your Google account.
You'll then be prompted to choose backup sources. On Mac, the app automatically includes your iPhoto Library, Apple Photos Library, Desktop and Pictures folders, but you can click the 'Add folder' button to add more folders or select an external storage location like a camera, memory card or hard drive. Slots jackpots casino poker. You can also, of course, deselect the default backup sources.
We recommend leaving the 'Photo size' set to 'High quality (free unlimited storage).' Click OK and the photos and videos in the selected backup sources will start uploading into Google Photos in the background; new photos and videos added to the folders will automatically upload.
Manual upload
If auto-uploading and backing up your photos and videos from your computer is too extreme, you can always manually upload photos by going to photos.google.com, logging in and clicking the little cloud button with the 'up' arrow inside of it, which is located at the top of the screen.
Alternatively, you can drag and drop files or folders directly into Google Photos to upload them.
Transferring from Flickr
There's no way to directly import your photos from Flickr and upload them to Google Photos. Instead, you'll need to download your Flickr photos and then re-upload them to Google's photo service.
To download Flickr photos, select the ones you want under the Camera Roll tab and click the 'Download' button located at the bottom of the screen. Once the zip folder containing the photos is downloaded, unzip it and manually upload the folder or individual files into Google Photos, as outlined above in the manual upload section.
Transferring from Facebook
Like Flickr, there's no direct way to import your photos from Facebook to Google Photos. Getting your photos off Facebook is also more of a hassle.
You've got two options: 1) manually download all the photos you want and re-upload to Google Photos or 2) download all of your Facebook data, locate your photos and videos, and then re-upload to Google Photos. The latter will get you all your Facebook photos, but the process of downloading all your Facebook data takes an eternity.
Amazon, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.
The situation is similar to getting your photos from other cloud services into Google Photos. You'll need to download pictures and videos to a computer and then re-upload them manually into Google Photos.
We know, it's time-consuming — and figuring out how to download all photos and videos can be a real pain if there's no 'download all' button. But look on the bright side, once they're all stored in Google Photos, you'll be able to search pictures for people and objects using its powerful search feature.
BONUS: The search for the ultimate smartphone camera
I have uploaded photos to Google Photos. Now I would like to download these pictures from Google photos to my new Android phone. But Google Photos only allow me to download one photo at a time. How to download all photos from Google Photos at once?
Google Photos works great in backing up photos to cloud storage and syncing them over all devices, while it neglects users' need to download photos, especially all photos, from the service. When you need to download photos from Google Photos to PC, Mac, iPhone or transfer pictures from Google Photos to gallery, you can follow these tips.
You May Like:
How to Download All Photos from Google Photos to PC/Mac
Select All Photos and Download from Google Photos
Step 1 On your PC or Mac, open photos.google.com in the browser.
Step 2 Select the photos you want to transfer from Google Photos to the computer. Choose Download.
Step 3 Since there is no select all option on Google Photos, to select all photos to download:
Select the first photo on Google Photos;
Keep holding Shift key and scroll down to the last photo;
Click the last photo to select all photos.
Click three dot icon in the top right corner and choose Download.
Google Takeout to Save All Photos to Computer
Google Takeout allows you to download all files/photos from Google Drive, Google Photos, etc. to PC, Mac or other devices.
Step 1 Open Google Takeout in Google Chrome.
Y Photos On Google Drive
Step 2 Select the Google service that you download photos from. To download all photos from Google Photos, choose Google Photos. Click Next.
Step 3 You can choose the file type, size to save the Google photos and how you would like to receive the photos.
Step 4 An archive of photos from your Google Photos will be created. Click Download to save all the photos from Google Photos to your computer.
How to Restore Pictures from Google Photos to Phone
Save Picture from Google Photos to Device
Google Photos app has Save to device option for us to move pictures from Google Photos to Gallery, but only one photo at a time.
Step 1 Open Google Photos on your phone. Select the photo you want to download to Gallery.
Step 2 Tap the three dot icon on the top and select Save to the device. The picture will be downloaded to Gallery.
Download All/Multiple Photos From Google Photos with Google Drive
If you want to download all photos from Google Photos to phone, you can make use of Google Drive.
Step 1 Open Google Drive and choose Google Photos.
Step 2 Select the pictures that you want to get from Google Photos. To select all pictures in Google Photos, tap three dots icon > Select All.
Step 3 Tap Download icon to download the picture to your device.
If you don't use Google Drive, you can also restore all your photos backed up to Google Photo to device in these steps.
Use Google Takeout to download photos on your PC;
Transfer the photos from PC to Android/iPhone.
Google Photos is Confusing? Try A Simpler Backup Method
Find My Photos On Google
It is important to back up precious photos, videos on the Android phone. However, Google Photos can be very confusing:
It doesn't provide a straight-forward to restore photos from the Google backup;
Google Photos sometimes can't upload, sync, backup our photos for unknown reasons;
Photos disappear from Google Photos from time to time because of software bugs.
Instead of backing up your photos to unstable and complicated Google Photos, why not switch to a more straight-forward method: backing up the photos to PC? And other than coping all photos to PC, which will occupy much storage of your computer, FonePaw Android Data Backup & Restore can save all your Android photos/videos in a small-sized backup file to the computer. It is easy to back up and restore.
Download Android Data Backup & Restore on PC.
My Photos 2019
Download
Step 1 Launch the program and connect your Android phone to PC with USB cable.
Step 2 Click Device Data Backup and choose to back up photos, videos only. Tick Encrypted backup to encrypt the backup. Click Start. A backup file will be saved in a chosen folder.
Step 3 When you need to restore the photos to Android device:
Connect your phone;
Choose Device Data Restore;
Select the backup of your Android photos. Click Start. (If you have encrypted the backup, you'll need to enter the password)
Preview the backed up photos. And select the photos you want to restore, click Restore.
Y Photos On Google
Backing up photos to PC is much simpler than backing up the photos to Google. What do you think? Leave your comment below.
