Do NOT choose Original but High Quality to get unlimited free storage on Google Photos. Changes you make on one side won’t necessarily be reflected on the other. 5) Change to High quality (free unlimited storage). It doesn’t work both ways, though, it doesn’t sync. Google is also releasing a migration tool in July which will allow you to shift all of your photos and videos over from Google Drive to Google Photos. Google says the decision to separate them is to help avoid confusion. If you use the desktop Backup and Sync app for Windows or Mac, then you are still able to send photos from your computer’s storage up to both Google Drive and Google Photos, but it will upload a duplicate to each service, rather than simply sharing the same space, meaning each image is taking up twice as much of your cloud storage.Īccording to NDTV, Google says that this is in an effort to simplify things and to prevent accidental deletions in Drive to be synced up to Photos. If you want to keep them synced to both, though, there is an option. Tap your profile photo on the top-right corner of the screen. After the change, you’ll only be able to upload to either one service or the other, but not both. Check your backup settings Open the Google Photos app.
While it may be possible to restore certain data backed up to your Google. This could take a while depending on your internet.
Tap on the Back up now option to begin the manual backup. You would also see a list of categories that are active backups. The new two new separate storage services will not automatically keep each others photos in sync. This does not require a data wipe, and does not require the bootloader to be unlocked. Now find the Backup now option and check and see if the Backup to Google Drive is.