Looking for a quick and easy way to download all your pictures and videos from Google Photos? Maybe you want to create a backup locally or want to create a personal movie and need all the content locally stored for editing purposes?
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Whatever the case, there’s a simple way to get all your content downloaded from Google Photos. Note that I previously talked about how you can download photos and videos from Facebook too.
It’s worth noting that if you simply need to download a couple of albums, it’s easier to just do that manually. Click on an album and then click on the three vertical dots at the top right. You’ll see an option called Download All.
This will download all the photos and videos in that album in ZIP format. The only problem with this method is that you can’t use it to download any photos and videos you upload from the Google Photos app on your phone or tablet.
To download all of those pictures and videos, you have to use the method I’m going to talk about below, which is Google Takeout.
Export Google Photos Data
There are two ways you can go about getting to Google Takeout. The easiest way is to follow the link below:
How To Download Photos From Google Photos
The more long-winded method is to go to Google.com and then click on your profile picture at the top right.
Click on My Account and this will bring you to a kind of dashboard for all settings related to your Google account.
Under the Personal info & privacy heading, click on Control your content.
You’ll see a Download your data box and a Create Archive link.
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The next screen is going to be the same as if you had followed the link mentioned above. Here you can choose what data to include in your archive. By default, everything is selected. Go ahead and click on the Select none button and then click on the toggle button next to Google Photos.
Download Photos From Google Drive To Pc
You can click on the down arrow and choose Select photo albums if you want to select individual albums. Note that if you have uploaded a lot of pictures and videos from your phone, Google Photos automatically creates albums that are named by the date.
In my case, I had only created about 450 albums myself, but I have well over 2500 albums in Google Photos because of the camera upload feature on my smartphone. Leave it at Include all photos albums if you want to download everything. Scroll down to the bottom and click Next.
On the next screen, you have to choose the format you want to use for the archive. If you use ZIP, anything over 2 GB will be split into multiple ZIP files. This is kind of annoying if you have hundreds of GBs of data stored in the cloud. In my case, I have 550 GB of photos and videos, so I certainly don’t want to have to click on 225 download links. I’ve tried it once and it’s a pain.
Luckily, you can choose other formats like TGZ and TBZ. You won’t be able to open this using Windows, but you can download a free program like 7-Zip to open the archives. It should be noted that using the ZIP method will be a lot faster because it only has to create 2 GB files, which it can do quickly.
If you choose any of the other formats, the limit for a single files goes up to 50 GB. In my case, that’s only 11 links rather than 225, which is way more convenient. It does take a while longer for a TGZ or TBZ archive to complete, but you’re only talking about a few hours here and there.
By default, you’ll get an email with a link to download the files once the archive has been created. If you want, you can also directly save the archive to Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, which is kind of nice.
Click the Create archive button and the process will begin. You can close the web browser and the process will continue in the background. You can always go back to Google Takeout and then click on Manage Archives to view the progress.
Overall, Google has made it really easy to download any data that you have stored in any of their services, a feature which is not available with a lot of other companies. If you have any questions, post a comment. Enjoy!
How To Download Google Photos To Hard Drive Free
If you have kids or animals then you’ve probably taken a billion or so pictures of them with either your fancy DSLR camera, your smartphone camera, or a combination of the two. You probably have a photo library the size of Texas sitting on your hard drive.
If you were smart you probably spent a weekend meticulously backing up your photo library to DVD or some other form of media and then you took all of those disks down to your safety deposit box at the bank for safekeeping.
In case you didn’t spend 20 hours backing up your photo library, you might want to know about the recent development known as Google Photos. Google in their infinite generosity has decided to provide unlimited photo storage to all (with a couple of caveats). The good news is that it’s pretty easy to use and you can set it up to not only back up photos from your computer but also those you’ve taken on your smartphone and/or tablet as well.
This doesn’t mean you should skip backing up your pictures to physical media, but it is a nice secondary storage method for backing up your pictures on a regular basis and is probably a lot more “regular” then your every other year method that you might be using now.
Download Google Photos To Desktop
Backing up Your Mobile Device’s Photos to Google Photos
You’ll first need to download the Google Photos App for either your iOS or Android device. Once the app is downloaded and installed, do the following.
For iOS-based Devices
Open the Google Photos iOS app on your mobile device.
In the top left corner of the application, screen tap the button with the 3 horizontal lines.
Choose Settings.
Select the Back up & Sync option.
Select the ON position.
At this point, you may be prompted by the app to allow access to your photos and videos for back up purposes. Switch to the iOS Settings application (gear icon), go to Privacy > Photos and turn Google Photos to the On position.
For Android-Based Devices
Open the Google Photos Android app on your mobile device.
In the top left corner of the application, screen tap the button with the 3 horizontal lines.
Choose Settings.
Select the Back up & Sync option.
Select the ON position.
Backing up the Photos on Your Computer to Google Photo (Win or Mac)
How To Download Google Photos To Computer
From your computer’s web browser, go to https://photos.google.com/apps
When prompted, choose either the Mac OS X installer or the Windows installer
Download the Google Desktop Photo Uploader application for your type of computer.
Open the installer and follow the onscreen setup instructions.
Launch the Google Photos Desktop Uploader application