How do i back up my photos to google photos

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.

- “The best photo product on Earth” – The Verge

- “Google Photos is your new essential picture app” – Wired

The official Google Photos app is made for the way you take photos today and includes essential features like shared albums, automatic creations and an advanced editing suite. Additionally every Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage and you can choose to automatically back up all your photos and videos in High quality or Original quality. You can then access them from any connected device and on photos.google.com.

With the official app, you get:

15 GB OF STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos and access them from any device and photos.google.com—your photos are safe, secure, and private to you. All photos and videos you back up in High quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage.

FREE UP SPACE: Never worry about running out of space on your phone again. Photos that are safely backed up can be removed from your device's storage in just a tap.

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas, and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.

ADVANCED EDITING SUITE: Transform photos with a tap. Use intuitive and powerful photo editing tools to apply content-aware filters, adjust lighting, and more.

SHARING SUGGESTIONS: With smart sharing suggestions, giving your friends the photos you took of them is painless. And they can add their photos, too, so you’ll finally get the photos you’re actually in.

FAST AND POWERFUL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them — no tagging required.

LIVE ALBUMS: Select the people and pets you want to see and Google Photos will automatically add photos of them as you take them, no manual updates needed.*

PHOTO BOOKS: Create a photo book in just minutes from your phone or computer. You can also see suggested photo books based on your best shots from a trip or period of time.*

GOOGLE LENS: Search the hard-to-describe and get stuff done, right from a photo. Copy and translate text, identify plants and animals, add events to your calendar, find products online, and more.

SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS: Instantly share photos with any contact, email, or phone number.

SHARED LIBRARIES: Grant a trusted person access to all of your photos.

You can also upgrade storage for your Google Account, used for Original Quality photos and videos by subscribing to Google One. Subscriptions start at $1.99/month for 100 GB in the US. Pricing and availability can vary by region.

- Google One Terms of Service: https://one.google.com/terms-of-service

- One Google Pricing: https://one.google.com/about

For additional help visit https://support.google.com/photos

*Face grouping, live albums and photo books are not available in all countries.

You can back up your photos and videos in your Android device to Google photos by following this quick and easy guide.

Back up your photos and videos to Google photos.

By India Today Web Desk: On Google Photos, you can upload new photos and videos from your device. It allows you to upload, view, edit, save and create new videos, animations and more. You can automatically backup and sync your photos and videos when you take them. For Android phones, you can also limit the usage of data during the automatic upload of photos and videos.

How to turn back up and sync on or off on Android device

Step 1: Open the Google Photos app on your Android phone or tablet.

Step 2: Now, sign in to your Google account.

Step 3: At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial.

Step 4: Choose photos settings and select back up & sync.

Step 5: Tap on back up & sync to turn on or off.

Important things to remember:

• All applications that use back up & sync will get affected when you change backup settings.
• If back up & sync is on, then deleting the Google Photos application from your device will not turn it off.
• If you want to turn off back up & sync, you need to follow the instructions above.

How to change your back up settings on an Android device

• Select the Google account to back up photos and videos: Below backup account, tap the account name.
• Change your upload size: Tap upload size to change your upload size.
• Back up device folders: Tap on back up device folders and then choose the folders you want to back up.
• Back up on mobile data: If you do not have access to Wi-Fi to back up your videos, then tap videos under cellular data usage.
• If you upload using your mobile network, charges from your service provider may apply.
• Back up while roaming: In Photos, open settings and tap on back up & sync, then choose cell data usage and turn on back up while roaming.

(Source: Google Photos help)

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