Google Photos is a very useful app from Google that allows you to store your photos and videos
directly to the Google’s cloud storage.
Well, that’s something everyone knows.
But did you know Google Photos app works as a photo editor tool and you can edit photos
in Google Photos?
Or even you can create and edit videos in Google photos app.
And, it’s not limited to these only.
So keep watching this video as I’ll reveal some hidden Google Photos tips and tricks
that you might not be knowing.
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Now let’s get started with some cool Google Photos tips and tricks.
Share Photos Directly
Google Photos app allows you to share photos directly from within the Google Photos App.
For this, first of all Go to Google Photos app and open the photo that you want to share.
Now, you’ll see a share icon.
Tap on that and the app will provide you a bunch of social networks where you can share
that particular photo directly.
Alternatively, you can also tap on “Create a link” and get a direct link to photo which
you can copy and paste to share wherever you wish.
2. Select Multiple Photos at once
Sometimes you need to select multiple photos quickly.
Whether you want to delete multiple photos at once, or share many photos at once, or
whatever might be a reason.
A cool idea is to select multiple photos at once before performing that action.
To do this, long press on any photo and then keep tapping, on as many other photos as you
want to select.
But here is a trick, if selecting many photos one by one seems time consuming, you can also
slide to speed up the process.
Now, you have selected multiple photos and do whatever you want to do with them.
3. Store Unlimited Photos
With Google Photos you can literally save unlimited photos.
To enable this, go to menu and select settings.
In backup and sync settings, tap on upload size and select “High Quality (Free Unlimited
Storage)”.
This is a compression version of your photos by Google’s own compressing feature that
will save your photos in high quality, although not as high as the original quality.
The compression is negligible and for most people it would be fine.
But if you are a photographer and original quality matters to you, I would recommend
choosing to save in original quality.
However, this will take more space and you’ll end up buying more storage ultimately.
But if you have a Google Pixel device, you’ll get unlimited photos at original quality without
the need to pay for additional storage.
4. Recover Deleted Photos
Google Photos provides you an option to delete the photos you no longer need.
You can move such photos to trash.
But what if you accidently deleted them?
Don’t worry!
You can recover them easily.
Let’s learn how to recover them.
Simply go to Menu and select Trash, here you’ll find all the deleted photos.
Open the photo that you want to recover, tap on the tree dot icon and tap “Restore”.
Now this has restored your deleted photo.
But keep in mind, a deleted photo can only be recovered before 60 days of deleting, because
Google photos app permanently deletes any photo from trash after 60 days.
5. Remove Location Data
Another cool Google Photos tips and tricks is to Remove Location Data
Did you know Google Photos app stores your location data of each photo?
Although this can be a handy feature as you can search photos by typing location but at
the same time, it’s bad for your privacy as well.
So I would recommend you to turn off location data, to do so, go to settings of your device,
then apps & notifications.
Here you’ll see all the apps you have installed.
Scroll down until you find Google Photos, tap on that and then check for permissions
you have allowed.
As you can see location permission is enabled, so we need to turn this off.
Now Google Photos won’t save your location data with photos.
But what if it has already saved location data for any photo, and you want to remove
that before sharing to anyone?
- Maybe for privacy reasons.
Thankfully you can do that as well.
Go to Google Photos app and from menu, go to settings and under sharing you’ll see
an option remove to geo location.
Turn on the option to remove Geo-location.
Now when you’ll share photos and videos, the location data won’t be shared.
How cool is that!
6.Search for Photos
Google photo search is a very powerful feature of Google Photos app.
You can search for any photo from entering specific dates, categories, location, people
inside the picture and even items inside the picture.
Isn’t it awesome?
7.Google Photos as Photo Editor
Next I’ll show you how to turn Google Photos into a photo editing tool
Simply open the photo that you want to edit and tap on this icon which you can see next
to sharing icon.
Now, you can add filters, change color saturation, crop, rotate, add markup and many more.
That’s how you can turn Google Photos into a powerful photo editor.
8. Fetch Information From Photos
In the same menu, you’ll also see this icon which basically reflects Google Lens.
If you tap on it, it’ll look for items in the photo and fetch information about it.
That way you can quickly find information about any item in your photo without leaving
the Google Photos app.
9. Create Animation Movies and Collage
Next Google Photos trick is for power users who are creative as well.
You can use Google Photos app to create movie, animation, and collage as well.
Simply tap on the three dot icon in the right corner, and you’ll get many create options.
Choose the one you want and create movie, animation, or collage using photos only - do
whatever you want and explore the creativity.
Choice is yours!
10. Upload Videos To YouTube
Last but not the least, another cool tips and tricks for Google Photos is uploading
Videos directly from the app to YouTube.
Yes, Google Photos app provides you option to upload videos to YouTube directly from
the app.
Simply open the video you want to upload, tap on the share icon, then from sharing options,
choose and tap on YouTube.
Here you can add title, description and tweak the other setting before you tap upload.
You can set privacy and add or remove location as well.
So that’s how you can use Google Photos like a Pro.
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