Hey friends!
I’m Tasia and this video will show you how to backup photos with Google photos.
Google photos is one of my favorite parts of the google ecosystem and has been for many
years.
It is my go-to app for backing up my photos and videos, as well as photo and video storage.
Now, if you haven’t used Google Photos before, you should know it’s included for free as
part of your Google ecosystem when you create a Gmail account.
So right there we’ve hit on one of my favorite things about Google Photos - it’s free cloud
storage of all your photos and videos.
So let’s jump into how to backup photos and videos with Google Photos.
Now it’s likely you’ll find yourself using Google Photos on both your desktop as well
as your mobile device.
A lot of the focus of this video will be on how to backup photos with Google Photos from
your mobile device.
If you have an android, I believe your app will already come standard, but for fellow
iPhone users, go ahead and download the Google Photos app from the app store.
Once you’ve downloaded the app, use your Gmail account login credentials to log in
to your Google Photos app.
Now what you’re going to do here is give Google Photos permission to access your photo
library and back up and sync your photos from any device.
And once you’ve done that, here’s a hot tip for you guys.
In your setting section of the Google Photos app, select the backup and sync option.
You’ll want to ensure that is toggled on of course, as we just discussed since that
is how to backup your photos, but down at the bottom here, we’ve got some options
on when to back up.
The two options are to use cellular data to back up photos and videos.
I recommend keeping these options toggled off.
Here’s why.
With the Google Photos app, your photos and videos from your smartphone will automatically
be backed up.
So, if you’re traveling somewhere and have a limited data plan or no data and you’re
skating by on wifi only, you definitely don’t want to eat up data by backing up photos and
potentially large videos automatically to the cloud.
So, with these toggled off, your device will sync and backup and photos and videos as soon
as you’re back on wifi.
Another side note here is that sometimes, on iPhone at least, I have to open the Google
Photos app in order for new photos to auto-sync to the app.
I don’t know if that’s the same for Android, maybe some Android users can comment on that
for us in the comments below.
But as soon as I open the app, any new photos I’ve taken since the last time the app was
opened, are automatically added to my Google Photos.
Something else to keep in mind is that when you initially set up Google Photos, and allow
it access to your photo library, it could take some time to back up your photo library
if you have a ton of photos and videos there.
But after that initial backup, things go very quickly.
It’s pretty well automatic anytime after your initial setup.
You’ll be able to access your entire photo and video library from the app on your smartphone,
or from your desktop.
To access your backed up photos and videos from a desktop, head to your Google Apps icon
near the top right of any tab in your google ecosystem.
So, that can be from your Gmail, drive, calendar, what have you.
Then just select Google Photos and it’ll open a new tab for you.
And you’ll have access to the same backup as your mobile device here too.
There are a ton of other advantages to using Google Photos like managing your photos and
videos and sharing your photos and videos, but if you guys are interested in a more in-depth
tutorial of everything Google Photos has to offer, let me know in the comments below and
I’ll make another video on that.
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