How To Disable Google Drive's Photos & Videos Backup On Android?

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Android has an alternative service i.e Google Drive that can automatically upload your photos and videos from a mobile phone to tablet. You may not know, but your photos and videos are being automatically uploaded to the cloud. You can easily stop automatically uploading photos and videos to cloud from your Android phone.

Android device has a "Photos" app which is used to backup photos and videos automatically. It is a Google's official photo and video sharing app. You can find it in your App Drawer on Android phone. When you open "Photos" app, you will see a stream of all the photos and videos that you have taken with your Android phone's camera.

To disable Google Drive's photos backup on Android, open "Photos" app and tap "Settings" option and then find the auto backup section. Tap "Back up Local Folders" option to stop sending your photos directly to the cloud when taking new ones. Once you done, your photos and videos will not be automatically backed up to the cloud.

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