How to Use Google Photos - Beginner's Guide

[@Howfinity]

I love this app. What do you think of it?

[@salsabylayary4460]

The best oneee it helps me a lot

[@josiahsoto7134]

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[@josiahsoto7134]

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[@vaniavieira6012]

Why mine is sharing my photos with other emaila that i have in my phone?

[@vaniavieira6012]

@Bradford Pear if i take the e-mail out of my phone it will stop sharing photos? Cause its my class email

[@ronwarren1845]

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[@Howfinity]

Wow Ron. This is the best comment I’ve received so far and it means a lot to me. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

[@freedallama5695]

The d riding is crazyyy

[@xandrolombardi3051]

Totally agree - easy listening. His voice is pleasing to my ears; he is informative and well versed, thank you.

[@EpiphanySageWynn]

Ron, your critique of the host's presentation was actually one of the most well-thought-out and time-taken critiques I personally have ever read! I am *not* being facetious, *nor* sarcastic, either. I really enjoyed the critique. It, more than anything, made me want to watch this video I accidentally clicked on! I write critiques all the time, and there was just a lot that I appreciated about your critique, and I wanted to take the time to tell you that. Great job! ❤🎉❤

[@blufeather7018]

Ditto! Accidentally clicked on this..or was it synchronicity🎉​@@EpiphanySageWynn

[@kellygerhardt6826]

Thanks! You explained this so clearly and showed me exactly what I needed to learn (I had no idea of the features). Will definitely subscribe to your channel!

[@9hundred67]

A.I is annoying, I don't want Google shuffling all my photos around and organizing it the way it feels is the best and identifying people and places and stuff. I just want to make my own folders and drag and drop stuff.

[@catguy4996]

If that's a problem for you, you'd be better off getting a USB hard drive and copying your photos to that as a backup instead.

[@muckraker610]

I totally agree. Call it, what you will, but It's all about info harvesting formats increasing control. And as of 1/2023, Google holds our photos for ransom .. We have to pay for the app, to have Google release THAT, WHICH IS OURS! Some of the suggested alternatives are worth considering

[@BloomByCC]

Hate it

[@PRODTEMPEST]

​@muckraker610 do you have an alternative you recommend?

[@d.m.6397]

Agreed. I have three dogs that are the same breed, AI recognizes them as the same, so if I want to view a photo of my deceased dog, I can't sort her from the other photos.

[@Chris-pj1os]

Thank you SO much for taking time to post this. I just got a new 2021 Motorola Gpower with Google photos, and have been reasonably unhappy so far. I really dislike that we cannot get rid of the Print Store in Libraries. But I can at least organize my photos a little better now thanks to you.

[@DuranTV1234]

I have my Google photos synced, however, I'm trying to free up space on my phone/gallery. When I delete it from my gallery/camera it also deletes it from my Google photos app? Am I missing something here?

[@DavidDavid888]

I could be wrong, but here's what may be happening to you because it happened to me. I was using the native Gallery app on my Android phone to organize/move my photos into certain albums (which are really just device folders). When I would then open the Google Photos app on my phone, I'd see those groups of folders with the same titles I had given them in the Gallery app. But those are not ALBUMS in the Google Photos app. I then needed to create Albums, but I didn't know this for a while, though. So when I would delete a folder (album) from the phone's Gallery app, I would notice that same-titled folder was now gone from the Photos app. I KNEW I had backed up all my photos but didn't understand where the folder went. Turns out, the photos were still in my Google Photos app, but just in chronological order. When I deleted the device folder "album" from my phone, it also deleted the folder from the Google Photos app but not the photos inside. They were still there, just in chronological order. So, what I should've been doing all along, was using the Google Photos app to create albums and organize my photos. The part that had confused me all along is that my phone's Gallery app calls the folders with the photos "albums" but they are really device folders. Creating an album in the Gallery app does not create an Album in Photos.

[@Shes.Precious]

Me too, when I think I moved all pics and videos on google photos, i would delete them on my device and it will be deleted on google photo too

[@runawayslave]

@@Shes.Precious same here. were you able to fix this?

[@TJMr63]

I'd like to transfer my Google photos to my external hard drive to open up phone storage. What steps would you recommend?

[@to-donam1098]

All you need to do is , in Google photo app, click on your profile icon, it will start backing up the photos and it will tell you when it's done loading them. Set all Google photo settings to your liking too

[@alofano]

If I delete pictures from my android or apple smartphone, will my pictures also be deleted from Google Photos or vice versa ??? Thanks for your post, very informative !!!

[@starpub1376]

Google photos can be done in computer instead?

[@kavitanarayan2466]

Hi I noticed when I delete a picture from my picture roll on the phone, it deletes from Google photos too. I want to be able to delete pictures from my phone, but keep it on Google photos. How can I do that? I downloaded Google photos to free up space on my picture roll. Thanks!

[@pinoyofwsahongkong]

Before I saw your video I did it by myself it’s like it appeared at my google update this apps so I tried. Your step by step instructions is exactly I did . I will share this videos to my friends and my some of my social platforms also maybe some of them needs too.

[@STORYTRAVELERS]

Thank you very helpful, the only question remaining. I don't want to keep everything.. what workflow do you reccomend when filtering out videos/photos you want to trash? first back up and then enter a desktop to filter the trash out?

[@kremans1]

Thanks for your help. One problem I'm having is when I delete a photo from my iPhone, the copy on Google Photos is also erased. Something I'm doing wrong? Thanks for your help.

[@stefanie3225]

Same here. This defeats the purpose of using a cloud storage. What am I doing wrong?

[@crisstofer809]

Can I make it so it only shows my backed up photos instead of showing all my photos on my phone

[@sel7666]

Great video! I take a ton of photos and I don't want to sync my phone photos to my google photo account. How can I select the photos I want to move from my phone's album to my google photo account without syncing?

[@poetsgarden1]

I dont see any way to edit in google photos on a mac computer, only on a phone. Do I have to have a paid google one account to edit?

[@macfl3594]

Can you explain why when you deliting a photo from google photos it also deletes that photo from the device???

[@razvanv339]

if I delete a photo from my device gallery, will it be automatically deleted from google photos as well? thanks

[@EEEBA1]

That's my question too.

[@romario.h5180]

Did u find out the answer?

[@EEEBA1]

@@romario.h5180 Not yet.

[@razvanv339]

@@romario.h5180 I found out that if you delete the photo from your phone gallery, you have to ALSO delete it from google photos app (there is no sync in place - which is sad).

[@manooch]

YES , actually tonight I was busy with google lens for the first time , I found it if I delete a photo from regular gallery , automatically will be deleted from google photo app too.... btw my phone is LG aristo android metro t-mobile...btw why don't you take a picture randomly and then test it for yourself ?

[@karlosnalda1549]

Is there a way to move all photos at once? I have way too much...

[@adventureswithtime]

I have Google Photos and I also backup my iPhone to iCloud. But when I delete a photo/video from my iPhone to save space it gets deleted from Google Photos (and iCloud). How to I keep it on Google Photos when I delete from my iPhone? Thanks

[@SoLCollectR]

That’s what I want to know. Dont want to do all this if I cant delete them off my phone to save space.

[@conordowd1978]

Thanks for sharing. A question please: is there any way to cut and paste images between folders on my android phone Google Photos app or my Desktop app? I simply want to cut and paste photos from Folder 1 to Folder 2 and have them only in Folder 2. Thanks for any help with this.

[@Jakbkwik1]

Thanks for all the info. I've been using Google photos for awhile now but I haven't utilized all of the features. Do you have a video that explains how to use the "Utilities" features? I've had this message on my Google Photos app saying "1461 items to delete from this device" but I've been scared to actually do it because it didn't seem to give me the ability to review the items before deleting.

[@MrGuitars8]

I need to copy my photos from my phone to my desktop , some of the Photos are very Old and cannot lose them . Priceless.

[@GleespenDesigns]

I backed up my videos to Google photos and now I need some of them to edit and make a new KZbin video. However all it is letting me do is view them. How do I resort them to my phone gallery to be able to use them in editing apps. I am using an android. PLEASE HELP! I have hit download many times and NOTHING HAPPENS

[@Ramdinohikes]

If I delete a photo on the app will it delete it on the device too? What about on an external hard drive. If If i delete the photo on the device will it delete it from the app? Is there a setting that will prevent it from being deleted on the device if so or the hardrive?

[@emrek99205]

Moving a photo to an external location to which Google photos does not have access and then deleting the photo from Google photos will, of course, not delete the photo from your other location. It will, however, delete the photo from your phone since the app has access to your phone. That said, under Utilities there is a Free Up Space option that will remove all photos on your phone that are already backed up on the Google servers. There is also a Delete From Device option for each photo that will do this for each individual photo. There is a way of removing photos from the Google photos server while keeping them on the phone and not using an external location. If you move the photos on the device to the Android Secure Folder then Google will not have access to the file on the phone when it is deleted from their server. Look into how to set that up if you want to "protect" your photos from Google deletion.

[@anama0506]

Hello there! Thank you for this video! Quick question... Is it possible to create a album inside an album? For example, a trip to Paris and inside Paris album create an album for Louvre, Eiffel tower and etc...?

[@ericharrell7799]

I think there's beautiful and getting you to understand to understand your phone to save all your pictures

[@keliblum6591]

Thank you so much for all the tips. I always learn something from your videos.

[@Edgar4T007]

Great video 👍

[@tyeedaughtery2547]

so if I wanted to get a new phone or delete all my photos off my regular apple photos app will it save the ones that are backed up on google photos?

[@susanvictor2761]

Thank you. This is very informative.

[@tevo46]

photo tagging in apple photos makes it much better

[@chele850]

Sometimes I take photos of sensitive information, scan documents via the camera, screenshots, etc. that I don't want to back up. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to exclude an album from google photos for auto-backup. So I'm stuck clicking each photo to back up, then when I go to delete them "from this device" it says they aren't backed up, although indeed they are. Is there a way that this can back up photos from messages, notes, etc.? Or a way to exclude an album? I'm thinking I'll delete those photos from my phone, then turn on backup and sync. Then turn it off again and re-save the excluded photos. Anyway, any insight is greatly appreciated!

[@bcallfree]

Get an app to scan documents and in Google photos don't select that folder for backup

[@emrek99205]

If you have Google photos installed you forfeit any and all privacy your phone once had. Download all backed up photos from Google and then uninstal the app. Then take your private photos and never install the app again. Cause as soon as you do, it will access and upload your private photos.

[@donnabasilavecchioyoung5239]

You explanation is great! I have the app since 2015, 2021 & 2022 I stopped backup on the app on my phone. When I restart the phone app will it give me all the old pictures again? If so how do you easily get rid of duplicates?

[@ACEmagnus]

Hi mate you know an easy way to save your complete photo libary from Google Photos Info camera roll? Like the iPhone with one click toake the gallery offline useble

[@jonhcontreras]

Pleasant man u r... U r mild mannered & r a good teacher.. Thank u sir🙋😊🙋

[@TheRealBigT1984]

I'm generally pretty tech savvy and been using Google (Android) based devices since 2010. One thing I can't get so far though is the whole syncing and displaying on the Photos Website. I am syncing my current phone (Samsung S20 Ultra) in preparation for my new S22 Ultra since I no longer have use of a memory card. My main thing is that when I pull up the Photos app on my phone, I can see my entire library, including all my custom folders I have in my Samsung Gallery (France Album, London Album, San Francisco, Food, etc.). When I pull up the website though I have Zero Albums and the website prompts me to create my own album. I selected the option to backup all my folders on my gallery (not just my camera), but am yet to see anything on the website. Really hoping since I literally JUST did this today, and my Google Account on my phone says I still have around 17k items to backup, that there is a delay? I also notice that not all my albums on my Photos App on my phone are 100% backed up yet either, so hoping that may be the case and I need to wait longer. Going to be a bit disappointed if I don't have the albums pre-made and sorted on the website version of Photos when logged in to my Gmail account. Wasn't sure if you could advise at all?

[@NehaSharma-yd4vo]

I Feel the same issue, i want Google photos to back my folders but it doesn’t!

[@ecolededansekamillem]

Hi, I like to also save photos on an external hard drive. Is it possible to transfer the photos from google photos to an external hard drive? Thank you

[@maureenphillips7213]

You are great. You speak slowley enough so we can undrstand. and your example aree asy to understand. Keep up the good work

[@alanm.6096]

Well done. A couple questions: 1. if your goal is to primarily upload and share slide shows, can you set things up so only those photos are uploaded (ie: from your mac/pc) ? 2. if you wish to invite someone to access your slide show, do they have to have a Google account? 3. when someone is viewing your slide show, can they manage it in any way (ie: speed). Thanks again.

[@The_Savage_Wombat]

I like how it can hold your precious memories hostage and keep asking you to pay money. Gotta love the mafia.

[@monicaann47]

How do you share photos or albums to Instagram and KZbin? When you touched the share icon at around 11:42, your phone shows the Instagram icon. Mine doesn't. It only allows me to share with Facebook and Twitter 😕 Thanks

[@Kolian1274]

Can you tell us how to organize pictures on google photo I have several duplicate photo In my iPhone gallery and google photo

[@robinkershen1054]

I have alot of photos in my google cloud from old phones. I'm getting a new phone tomorrow - how do I get the photos from google cloud (my computer) on my new phone? Also, if i open google photos on my phone through the browser, I see an up-facing arrow in a blue circle (I don't know what that means)... I hope you can help me because these pictures are priceless of my mom and I don't want to lose anything.

[@rashyartist]

Thank u .. very simply explained!! But I have a doubt here. My android phone storage is full. And I uploaded all my photos and videos on Google photos. Is there any option where I keep my photos on Google photos and delete it off from my phone gallery?.

[@JailaSea766]

Thank you Sir. When I selected paid for 100 GB and back up photos I give me something called Google One. Is that normal or are they trying to get me to buy more products. I want to delete photo off my android but don't want it to delete from Google Photo. help.. and Thank you

[@veronicamendez2068]

can you delete photos in your camera roll once it's been backed up in google photos?

[@fosterck13]

I want to organize my photos into certain categories myself. Can I turn off or disable the auto sort feature?

[@tiffanyting5835]

Hi, this was really helpful. But is Google Photo able to automatically create album as per our mobile phone?

[@razvanv339]

hello! is there any chance that these photos might be visible for others? I want to make sure that all these photos stored in google photos will be visible only by myself! Is there any specific setting to be checked?

[@SoLCollectR]

Just you and the Government have access to your photos.

[@emrek99205]

Anyone who has access to your phone will also have access to your google photos And to your Locked folder inside Google photos. The only thing this app does is to upload the photos to the cloud server under your Google account and it uses the same biometrics/password/pin set up for your phone in order to access the account. What this app hides is your photos from other non-google apps. Google itself can view each and every photo backed up to its servers without need to access your phone directly. In short, if you have any photos you want hidden then DO NOT USE OR INSTALL GOOGLE PHOTOS!!! Once installed it will automatically scan and back up to its servers every photo you have. If you want to keep anything private, use the android hidden folder instead, but be aware that 1. this uses up main memory and cannot be moved to an SD card, and 2. as soon as photos are removed from the hidden folder (such as to offload to a computer), Google photos will detect it and immediately upload to the cloud if it is still installed.

[@FunNFinzz]

Hey can u please help me When we delete photos and videos from our photos drive Do they be deleted from our gallery section or not

[@jpalmer0508]

Can I copy phitos from Google phitos to my SD card then delete the phito in Google photos to make room.? I'm running out of storage and I'm trying to avoid paying for more storage. Thanx.

[@timd5597]

Is there a way to add photos to a named library folder then delete the same picture you just added to the library from the photo app but keep it in the library?

[@markshirley01]

Hi - do you know how to remove the "highlights" that's just appeared above every google album - thanks

[@lucyjiang5041]

This video was made 3 years ago. Now it appears that Google photos are not automatically synchronized any more when you take photos. Also Google photos do not have unlimited space. Google drive offers 15GB for free. Google photos take up space from the 15 gb.

[@coachab100]

I have some pictures that Are sideways or upside I want to put right side so don’t have to turn phone sideways! Sometimes it ask me if I want to do this but not always. What am I missing? Thanks

[@dunafi6769]

I don't like it when google photos removed my photos from my offline gallery!! Can you help me get my photos back to my gallery please 😭

[@seyharean168]

wow so good i am support

[@allyallyally337]

can you please tell me how i can zoom in on a photo and save it that way. i did it once and i have no idea how. please help. thank you

[@johnrobinson1020]

As of June 2021 Google no longer offers total free storage to lower grade photos. All photos now uploaded to Google photos are counted in your 15Gbyte free limit regardless of their resolution or size and will be counted. You can manage photos and have them reduced in quality but they will still be counted in your storage and when you reach 15 Gbyte will need to upgrade and pay for it..

[@frenchy2318]

Can you help please? When I delete photo from Google photo on my desktop I get a notification on my phone and then I also delete them on my phone. I thought this would work vice versa but when I deleted a bunch of photos from my photo they didn't not delete from my Google photo on my desktop. I would really rather not have to go through all my photos again and delete unwanted photos. How can I sync them together in both directions sorta say.

[@boxbrown4755]

What a great period of instruction! Consider me a new student. I subscribed and hit the bell!

[@bennettrichards6851]

Hello, Great intro ... I was wondering if there is any way to caption individual images in a Google photo album? Also if I want to delete photos from my phone will they disappear from my Google photo album? I currently use iCloud backup , Amazon Prime photo (as I am a prime member and storage is unlimited) as well as Google Photo. Which of these three do you prefer? Is it true that if you delete images from your iPhone they will also be deleted fro your iCloud backup? Thanks.

[@KerrBox92]

So I just signed into my google photos on my phone and selected "do not backup" but through the google photos app, I can see all the photos that are on my phone, so am I correct in assuming that google photos has access to your phones photos and if so, how can i disable it and not have every photo in my phone turn up in google photos?

[@20111111jorg]

I'm sure you have a good video but any way to disable this app which wants to control my photos instead of me? Do I down load another app? Can I get this app to just to view my photos on the phone and let me pick them off with my PC computer when I get home? I don't want my phone uploading anything. Thanks.

[@denisequigley2298]

Do you have a video how to download to icloud as a backup

[@cybythesea]

Thank you! How do we delete multiple albums at once in good photos?

[@allenschneider1847]

When I upload a photo from my computer, will it organize it by date of upload or date the photo was taken? I notice when it "backs up" my phone gallery it puts photos taken from my phone in one place and photos that I've uploaded from emails sent to me in another. I wish they were all in one place!

[@Aquamarine.Aubrey]

Once photo is in Google photo can I delete it from my photo gallery. Or will deleting it from my gallery also delete it from Google? I have an Samsung phone if it matters. Thanks for this video. Very helpful.

[@RedArrow69]

I love Google Photos

[@joshuanesbit]

question, if you have icloud photos on and it's 'optimise storage', does that mean google photos won't be able to access many of the photos locally on the phone due to them living on the cloud?

[@madeyemo4404]

I have an important question. I want to have only my photos captured by my smartphone camera displayed in the home feed of google photos or at least in an album. In my One Plus 7 Pro (idk wich android it runs on currentyl but i will edit the commen later) its exactly like that. Screenshots are in the screenshots folder, whatsapp photos etc are in their on folder as well. Now I have a Xiaomi 13T and I don't see an option for this. Is this because of the phone manufacturer or the new Android version or why is it like that ?

[@keyshamoise5025]

I have a problem, I accidentally chose the 15gb option when I meant to chose the unlimited option, and now i have no storage. Is there any way I can change back to the unlimited option without deleting my important stuff?

[@ChrisHope-h6b]

Thanks for video. You explained it well.

[@joyn9585]

Helped me to understand Google Photos and features I was not sure about.

[@brayton6683]

I got a new smartphone since I lost my previous smartphone at a party .Now I'm trying to recover all of my old photos and videos which I had on my previous device which I haved backup onto google photos .I logged into the google account which I used to do all this on my old phone and my media content that I had backup ain't showing on my new device I tried waiting it out since it takes time but it been almost 24 hours still nothing is showing on my app what should I do

[@bobbyeawalt326]

If I delete my photos on my phone after backing them up are they safe on my computer after I delete them from my phone

[@kylexbndl]

Can I delete my photos in my iPhone after back up in Google Photos?

[@javenpalmer]

So confused. I’m using Google photos but I can’t actually access these photos when trying to upload to apps like instagram etc.

[@donnabasilavecchioyoung5239]

If I open google photos is it able to sort out duplicate photos?

[@duquelenarallend.2698]

So How Will get all ur photos on that app?

[@flxwxrblxssxm._.8160]

This app has been causing me a problem recently that I really hope someone knows how to solve. I downloaded it to save storage on my IPhone because my regular Photos app takes up so much storage. However, when I delete a photo on my regular Photos app, it also deletes on my Google Photos app. Is this what’s supposed to happen or am I missing something here?

[@notonline9982]

I might be a bit late but did you sync the photos?

[@brandideppner597]

How do I uncover images or pictures that are hidden or photoshopped into a photo my boyfriend takes pictures of me but when I look at them he always does 3 of the same in a row but the part I can't figure out is why does he take 3 if the same and then when I look at the photos they don't look like me it looks as if there is something hidden inside these photos there will always be a blurry spot or a bright light section or part of my body or face is different how do I find out what he is hiding inside of these photos

[@thebigbryc5873]

Great video Can someone answer this? I'm out of space on Google photos. How do I only see photos in cloud and not on device? I want to delete photos from Google cloud ONLY not my device too. But every time I try to delete, it asks "delete from cloud and syncs device" No just cloud. I tried turning off sync access and then I try to open photos it demands access to photos. So any idea how to clean up only the cloud?

[@ninamonkman6198]

Hi, I’ve two gmail account on my iPhone and just updated the google photos storage to 200GB. Is this mean the two gmail account can use same storage or I’ve to update the storage for both account separate? Another thing is most are my kids photos and videos. How many photos and videos for 200 GB can store?? Thanks

[@jpenadelaify]

I've been backing up to Google photos for years and just recently did the 100gb upgrade to free up space on my device. I'm still learning it, but 1 question i got is. Can you move a photo or video out of Google photos back to your " Album or Gallery" on your device?

[@BLESSINGFAVOR-fq6ou]

Thank you so much for thisi important information. Just came across your account today. Have liked everything you described about google photos . Helped me alot. Be blessed 🙏

[@StephenPrabhu]

Does it also retain all the albums that I had created on the iPhone ?

[@RedArrow69]

So nice Nice job Google

[@aradhanap1223]

Are live photos backed up on google photos? Or will the file upload as a picture only ?

[@JDNM_NJames1863]

Hi, Some photos are on Google photos but saying I need to click on an icon for it to back up I don’t get it

[@Harold-l3i]

how to you get google photos to free up space on you Iphone after they have down loaded your pictures?

[@simonekincaid3993]

how do you markup images/photos in google albums on android and have the photos sync in album with markups?

[@lw216316]

HELP- get message Backup waiting for WI-FI + 78 items left what does this mean? and how do I access photos taken on my android phone using my Desktop computer?

[@charlesallen3405]

How do I display all photos regardless of time frame or other designation?

[@vedantsingp]

How can I see the local albums in Google Photos on iOS?

[@5_val]

My Google Photos program quit recognizing animals/pets. How can I get the feature back

[@sarahbeale7650]

Great introduction to Google Photos! Thanks!

[@dipanwitakhatua2034]

When i delete a photo in google photos it is also deleted from my gallery. Does it have a solution?

[@cjnourse5752]

Thank you. it was quite helpful

[@gloriaamayaconant3802]

How long does it take to backup?