Uploading photos from your Android phone to Google Drive is a great way to keep your images safe and accessible across all your devices. Google Drive offers free, unlimited photo storage for high quality images up to 16MP and videos up to 1080p resolution.
In this comprehensive guide, we will walk through all the steps and methods to easily upload photos from an Android phone to Google Drive.
Before you can upload photos to Google Drive, you need:
Here is a quick outline of the main steps we will cover in this guide:
Now let's dive into each step in more detail.
The first step is to open the Google Drive app on your Android device:
It's good practice to keep your photos organized in specific folders in Google Drive. Here's how to create a new folder:
Now it's time to select the specific photos on your Android phone that you want to upload:
After selecting the photos, you can choose which folder in Drive to upload them to:
That's it! The selected photos will now be uploaded from your Android phone's storage to the Google Drive folder.
Manually uploading photos each time can be tedious. Fortunately, you can set Google Drive to automatically upload photos:
Now Google Drive will automatically upload any new photos from your camera to the app whenever you are connected to the internet.
Google Photos is another app you can use to upload photos and videos to Drive:
Any albums or photos backed up to Google Photos can be easily accessed from Google Drive this way.
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Once your photos are saved in Google Drive, you can easily share albums or specific photos:
Recipients will be able to view, download or collaborate on the shared albums or photos.
You can also backup all photos stored on your Android phone to Google Drive using your computer:
This allows you to bulk upload all camera photos to Drive in one go for backup.
Uploading all your important photos to Google Drive is a great way to keep them safe and accessible across devices. By following this guide, you should now be able to swiftly transfer photos from your Android phone to Google Drive using the Drive app, Google Photos, auto-upload, or even your computer. Keep your photo collection secure and organized with Google Drive. Let us know if you have any other questions!
Here are some common questions about uploading Android photos to Google Drive:
To upload a screenshot, open the Google Drive app and tap the "+" button > Upload > Screenshots. Select the desired screenshots on your phone and upload them to Drive.
Google Drive does not compress or resize photos and videos uploaded in High quality, which is up to 16MP for images and 1080p for video. Storage saver quality has slight compression but files don't count against your storage limit.
No, an active internet connection is required to upload photos from your Android phone to Google Drive. You can select the 'Original' upload quality option to preserve full image quality.
Photos uploaded to Drive are accessible from drive.google.com on any web browser. The Drive mobile app is also available for iOS and other platforms to access your photos everywhere.
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