Another important reason to consider downloading all of your shots from Google Photos is the policy change coming into force from June 1 So if you use Google Photos as a backup for your smartphone shots, you might find that you max out the 15GB that Google gives you for free.
The most straightforward way to download images from Google Photos is one at a time, which you may find is the best approach. But unless you only have a handful of shots stored in the cloud, downloading individually will be a painstaking way to save all of your photos. An alternative is to pick batches of snaps to save simultaneously.
You can then click other images to add to your selection. Holding shift when you click will also allow you to highlight batches of snaps between the first and last shots you select. Google will compress your chosen shots into a single zip archive, ready for saving. From June , Google will also offer a free storage management tool to help you find and delete shots that are underexposed or blurry, which should make it easier to pick through pictures to find your favorites.
Use the search bar to filter your images — such as by location or date — then pick from the results. This makes it easy to save similar images, such as ones from the same place. This will compress all of the images and videos contained in the album into a single zip file for you to download. The benefit of this approach is that you can selectively download your snaps in just a couple of clicks, and keeps them organized on your hard drive. The downside? Instead, each one has to be opened and saved individually, which could prove laborious if you have a large number.
That said, checking through a sizable Google Photos library could be a time-consuming task. You might instead want to wait for the arrival of the free storage management tool from Google, due in June , which should make it simpler and quicker to root out superfluous photos lurking in your library. Ready to go? However, Google Photos can be very confusing:. Instead of backing up your photos to unstable and complicated Google Photos, why not switch to a more straight-forward method: backing up the photos to PC?
It is easy to back up and restore. Step 2 Click Device Data Backup and choose to back up photos, videos only. Tick Encrypted backup to encrypt the backup.
Click Start. A backup file will be saved in a chosen folder. Backing up photos to PC is much simpler than backing up the photos to Google. What do you think? Leave your comment below. Thursday, November 23, Try A Simpler Backup Method. Step 3 Since there is no select all option on Google Photos, to select all photos to download: Select the first photo on Google Photos; Keep holding Shift key and scroll down to the last photo; Click the last photo to select all photos.
Click three dot icon in the top right corner and choose Download. Step 1 Open Google Photos on your phone. Select the photo you want to download to Gallery. Step 3 Tap Download icon to download the picture to your device. Google Photos is Confusing? However, Google Photos can be very confusing: It doesn't provide a straight-forward to restore photos from the Google backup; Google Photos sometimes can't upload, sync, backup our photos for unknown reasons; Photos disappear from Google Photos from time to time because of software bugs.
If you have encrypted the backup, you'll need to enter the password Preview the backed up photos. And select the photos you want to restore, click Restore.
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