![]() ![]() Ready to start backing up your snaps from your smartphone or tablet to the Google Photos? Good news: it’s pretty easy. How to backup to Google Photos from a phone or tablet There’s a full list of the supported files on Google’s support page. It’s also important if you’re a photographer who needs a backup option for full-size raw files – though be sure to check whether Google Photos supports your camera’s file type, as it won’t work with all raw formats. This will be the best choice if you plan to print your images or to use them in design work, for example. As the name suggests, this setting will store your shots online in their original form, with no compression or reduction in quality. If, on the other hand, you want to back up original, full-fat copies of your photos, select the ‘original’ option. The compression is very efficient, reducing file size without a significant loss in quality – and compressed shots should still be plenty good enough if you’re mainly working with smartphone photos or viewing images on your screen. The latter will slightly compress images to save space. The first thing to decide when setting up Google Photos is whether you want to upload and store your photos as ‘original’ or ‘high quality’ images. ![]() Google Photos backup: how to choose your upload settings Setting up for the first time or want some top tips on the best ways to backup photos to help you get the most out of the service? Whether you’re using a Mac, PC, iOS or Android device, this handy guide will tell you exactly how to upload your pictures to Google Photos – and how to sort them once you have. Even though Google Photos is one of the simplest options for safely storing your photo library online, it’s always good practice to have multiple backups of your snaps. These tips will be helpful if you don’t want to shell out for a subscription plan – or if you just want to make an offline copy of your online image collection. We’ve also included instructions for saving your entire Google Photos library to a hard drive. The limits apply across all Google products, including Drive. Plans start at £1.59 / US$1.99 per month for 100GB of storage capacity, up to £7.99 / US$10 per month for 2TB. Luckily, Google One subscriptions are flexible and affordable. Google no longer offers unlimited free storage for ‘high quality’ images - or any kind of unlimited cloud storage deal (although many of the best photo storage and sharing sites do offer unlimited space on a subscription basis). You could use the Smart Switch app on your phone to back up to another mobile device that also has the Smart Switch app installed but since you indicated you're using your laptop, again what app/service did you use to actually do the backup? Typically you use the same app/process to do backups and a restore when necessary.Google Photos offers 15GB of storage for free, which should be sufficient if you’re only planning to back up your very favorite photos.īut if you want to make a second copy of your entire image library, you’ll need to consider a Google One subscription. Typically some kind of backup/restore app or online service is involved. Just how did you backup 'all' your S9 Plus? If you're not able to get Samsung's Smart Switch installed on your Macbook Pro, doing so would require you to root your device to be able to manually copy all those files/data/apps you indicated, and that would also require a rooted device to be able to then manually restore all those same files/data/apps accordingly. Also, the backup/restore option buried in the Settings menu is a bit of a misleading misnomer on Google's part - it refers to Google apps and services so setting and config changes for Google apps and things get auto-backed up but other non-Google data and files are still you're responsibility to archive. So you've got more room to store data online, but it's not an backup/restore solution. Keep in mind that Google One is just allowing you more online storage capacity, it is not a comprehensive back up service. ![]()
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