How to back up your photos and videos on Google photos

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A Google account is the key to accessing all of Google’s products and services like sending and receiving email using Gmail, downloading applications from the Google play store, viewing photos, saving of photos, watching videos from YouTube, and others.

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

How to back up your photos and videos on Google photos

How to back up your photos and videos on Google photo

To back up your photos and videos on Google you need to follow some steps and it requires you to ON your mobile data on your phone for the process.

  1. Download google photo on the play store or check your phone app because some android phones normally come with google photo when bought it.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account with your email
  3. Once it is successful sign in, click your email at the top-right edge of your phone
  4. Click photos settings and tap on Back up & sync
  5. Then click on cell data usage to select the method of your backup, either by mobile data or wifi
  6. Click on back up device folder and select the folder you wish to back up

Once you back up all your photos and videos you can easily access them whenever you like, any place, or if you lost your phone. All you need to do is provide the email address you used during backup processing.

How to share your google photo with people on Android

We have a different way to share photos or videos with someone on our phone

Email

How to back up your photos and videos on Google photos

  1. Download google photo on the play store or check your phone app because some android phones normally come with google photo when bought it.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account with your email
  3. Then select a photo, album, or video you wish to share by tapping on it to highlight
  4. Click on the share symbol and search the person’s email
  5. Click next at the top-right edge of your screen
  6. You can also add a note to the photo or video and click send

Mobile number

  1. Download google photo on the play store or check your phone app because some android phones normally come with google photo when bought it.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account with your email
  3. Then select a photo, album, or video you wish to share by tapping on it to highlight
  4. Click on the share symbol and search for the person’s number
  5. Click next at the top-right edge of your screen
  6. You can also add a note to the photo or video and click send

The person’s Name

  1. Download google photo on the play store or check your phone app because some android phones normally come with google photo when bought it.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account with your email
  3. Then select a photo, album, or video you wish to share by tapping on it to highlight
  4. Click on the share symbol and search for the person’s name
  5. Click next at the top-right edge of your screen
  6. You can also add a note to the photo or video and click send

How to add a Google photo or video to your Facebook profile, story, group, or news feed

  1. Open your Google Photos
  2. Locate the photo or video you wish to share
  3. Select it and click ‘share’
  4. Search Facebook and click on it
  5. It will display 4 options news feed, your group, set as a profile picture and your story just click one
  6. To add a photo to your Facebook profile picture you need to select only one 1 photo and click on share.

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You can also share your Google photos or video by creating an album

  1. Open your Google Photos mobile application
  2. Locate the photo or video you wish to share
  3. Select it and wait till it highlights, click on the plus symbol at the top edge of your screen and click on Album
  4. Input the title of the album and click on the mark symbol at the top left of your screen
  5. Once you are done with it click on library and select the Album you created
  6. Then click on Share
  7. Search the person you wish to share your Album with and click on it
  8. Click next at the top-right edge of your screen
  9. You can also add a note to the photo or video and click send

Note: you must have data on your mobile phone and you can share your photo with more than 1 email, phone number, or name at the same time.

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