Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.

- “The best photo product on Earth” – The Verge

- “Google Photos is your new essential picture app” – Wired

The official Google Photos app is made for the way you take photos today and includes essential features like shared albums, automatic creations and an advanced editing suite. Additionally every Google Account comes with 15 GB of free storage and you can choose to automatically back up all your photos and videos in High quality or Original quality. You can then access them from any connected device and on photos.google.com.

With the official app, you get:

FREE STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos for free and access them from any device and photos.google.com—your photos are safe, secure, and private to you. All photos and videos you back up in High quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage.

FREE UP SPACE: Never worry about running out of space on your phone again. Photos that are safely backed up can be removed from your device's storage in just a tap.

SMART AUTOMATIC ALBUMS: Automatically get a new album with just your best shots after an event or trip, then invite others to add their photos.

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas, and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.

ADVANCED EDITING SUITE: Transform photos with a tap. Use intuitive and powerful photo editing tools to apply content-aware filters, adjust lighting, and more.

SHARING SUGGESTIONS: With smart sharing suggestions, giving your friends the photos you took of them is painless. And they can add their photos, too, so you’ll finally get the photos you’re actually in.

FAST AND POWERFUL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them — no tagging required.

LIVE ALBUMS: Select the people and pets you want to see and Google Photos will automatically add photos of them as you take them, no manual updates needed.*

PHOTO BOOKS: Create a photo book in just minutes from your phone or computer. You can also see suggested photo books based on your best shots from a trip or period of time.*

GOOGLE LENS: Search the hard-to-describe and get stuff done, right from a photo. Copy and translate text, identify plants and animals, add events to your calendar, find products online, and more.

SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS: Instantly share photos with any contact, email, or phone number.

SHARED LIBRARIES: Grant a trusted person access to all of your photos.

You can also upgrade storage for your Google Account, used for Original Quality photos and videos by subscribing to Google One. Subscriptions start at $1.99/month for 100 GB in the US. Pricing and availability can vary by region.

- Google One Terms of Service: https://one.google.com/terms-of-service

- One Google Pricing: https://one.google.com/about

For additional help visit https://support.google.com/photos

*Face grouping, live albums and photo books are not available in all countries.

Turn back up and sync on or off

Before you start, make sure you're signed in.

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app 

Sign in to your Google Account.

At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial.

Select Photos settings   Back up & sync.

Tap "Back up & sync" on or off.

Things to keep in mind about this setting:

Changing backup settings will affect all apps that use Back up & sync.

If you have Back up & sync on, deleting the Google Photos app from your device will not turn it off. To turn off Back up & sync, follow the instructions above.

Change your back up settings

Choose the Google Account to back up photos and videos: Under "Backup account", tap the account name.

Change your upload size: Tap Upload size. Learn more about upload sizes.

Back up device folders: Tap Back up device folders and select the folders you want to back up.

Back up on mobile data: If you don't want to wait for Wi-Fi to back up your videos, under "Cellular data usage," tap Videos. Charges from your service provider may apply if you upload using your mobile network.

Back up while roaming: In Photos, open Settings and tap Back up & sync Cell data usage and turn on Back up while roaming.

Back up with unrestricted data

Check if your photos are backed up

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app

Sign in to your Google Account.

At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial.

You can view if backup is complete or if you have items in wait to back up. Learn how to fix backup issue