Want to back up your entire photo library from all your devices to the cloud? Google Photos is probably one of the best choices you can make: the service offers free, unlimited storage of your “high-quality” photos – 15GB free if you broadcast your originals on TV. Since switching from Flickr to a paid offering, it’s actually hard to find anything better! Here’s how to back up all your photos regardless of your device.
Back up your photo library from your smartphone or tablet to Google Photos
For him:
- Download if you haven’t already Google Photos for Android Where iOS and sign in your Google account
- Open Google Photos and go to the menu ≡ at the top of the screen
- enter inside Settings > Backup and Sync and enable backup
- Check your photos and possibly videos to enable backing up of these contents in Google Drive from your mobile data – if you don’t want to wait to connect to a WiFi network for syncing to start
Important :
- Backup starts immediately, but not all of your photos are immediately available in the cloud (depending on your connection speed and photo library size)
- Deleting Google Photos doesn’t actually disable its backups in Google Drive
- If you selected the import size High qualityyour backup space is unlimited but the platform will compress your photos beyond 16 megapixels.
- If you choose the import size originalThe size of the backup cannot exceed 15 GB of free Google Drive storage or the remaining storage you purchased, if available.
Google Drive: Back up your photos on your Windows PC or Mac
On your computer:
- Download and install Backup and Sync by clicking here
- Link to your Google account
- When the app requests, you can select content that interests you (photos, videos, other files, etc.).
- Choose the folders where your photos are located
- Select import size in section Import size of photos and videos and click on To start to start the backup
Important :
- If you selected the import size High qualityyour backup space is unlimited but the platform will compress your photos beyond 16 megapixels.
- If you choose the import size originalThe size of the backup cannot exceed 15GB of free Google Drive storage, if available, or the remaining storage you purchased.
It is also possible to save your photos manually via your browser:
- go
- Click on import in the top left or directly drag your folders containing your photos (do not close the window during import)
Using Google Photos to back up your photo library or any other solution? Talk about it in the comments.
