How do i see my photos in google cloud

Last updated on September 25, 2022 @ 7:47 pm

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Google cloud storage for photos
Overview of Google Photos and Google Drive
Google Drive
Google Photos
How to backup your photos to Google cloud storage
Backup your photos to the cloud using Google Photos
Backup your photos to the cloud using Google Drive
How to Sync your photos to the cloud using Google Drive desktop app
Bonus tips: how to get more Google cloud photos storage
Step 1. Add Google Drive Accounts to CBackup
Step 2. Combine Multiple Google Drive Accounts
Where are photos stored in Google cloud?
How do I access my Google cloud?

If you want to access your Google Cloud photos, you first need to create an account. After you create your account, you will need to download the Google Photos app. The Google Photos app allows you to access your Google Cloud photos from anywhere.

After you have downloaded the Google Photos app, open it and sign in. Next, select the photos you want to access. You can access your photos in three different ways:.

PRO TIP: If you are trying to access your Google Cloud photos and are having difficulty, there are a few things you can try. First, check to make sure that you are logged into the correct account. If you have multiple Google accounts, you may be logged into the wrong one. Second, try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies. This can often help resolve issues with accessing websites. Finally, if you are still having difficulty, contact Google customer support for assistance.

1. On the left side of the Google Photos app, select Photos.

2. On the main menu, select More.

3. Tap the three lines in the bottom left corner of the app.

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 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:

15 GB OF STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos 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.

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

Google Photos is also available on Wear OS for the Google Pixel Watch. Set your favorite photos as your watch face.

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

Quick Guide

Google cloud storage for photos
Overview of Google Photos and Google Drive
How to backup your photos to Google cloud storage
How to Sync your photos to the cloud using Google Drive desktop app
Bonus tips: how to get more storage space for photos?

Google cloud storage for photos

Nowadays, many users may store many awesome photos and videos on their phone or computer, but when they decide to buy a new device or the storage of the device becomes too full to take anymore, how to deal with these pictures and videos has been a problem to them. In addition, if you store your photos in one place only, chances are that they may lose your important photos for hard drive failure.

Actually, cloud storage is a good choice for data storage especially for photos and videos, which take up a lot of space. As one of the biggest cloud storage providers in the world, Google provides two kinds of Google cloud photo storage for both photos and videos: Google Drive and Google Photos.

Overview of Google Photos and Google Drive

Google Photos are entirely dedicated to preserving online photos, but Google Drive emphasizes storing all sorts of data. If you want to learn more about them, you can read on.

Google Drive

Google Drive allows you to backup almost any type of file like PDF, ZIP, MP3, MP4, JPG, PNG, etc. to the cloud server and access these files from anywhere. Meanwhile, Google Drive offers mobile app, web version and desktop client to help you backup and access your photos on smartphone, tablet, or computer with ease.

Generously, you will get 15GB of Google Drive photo storage for free, so depending on the size of the photos and video you're saving, you'll likely be able to save thousands of photos and hundreds of videos. However, this space is shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. If you want to increase the amount of storage, you can pay to upgrade to an advanced plan.

Google Photos

Google Photos is a photo gallery app that supports three types of media files – photos, videos, and GIFs. Nowadays, it has been one of the best ways to store, backup, and view your photos if you have a smartphone. You can also do some basic photo editing. After setting, all of the photos and videos you've taken on your phone will be automatically copied to the cloud where you can access them from anywhere.

Besides the Google Photos app on mobile devices, you can also go to the photos.google.com site to view your stored images and clips on a PC or mobile web browser. And if you want to backup and sync photos on computer to Google Photos directly, Google’s desktop app can help you achieve it.

Although there is no Google photo cloud storage limit for High Quality before June 1, 2021, it’s worth nothing after June 1, 2021, because Google Photos stopped unlimited storage for High Quality since June 1, 2021.

How to backup your photos to Google cloud storage

In general, Google Drive is a file storage service and Google Photos is a sync and backup service for photos and videos. Both of them can help your backup, store, and view your photos. No matter Google Photos or Google Drive you want to backup photos to, you can read the following contents to learn how to do it with detailed steps.

Backup your photos to the cloud using Google Photos

You can follow the steps below to backup your photos to the cloud using Google Photos.

Part 1. Via Google Photos app

1. Download and install Google Photos from the Google Play store.

2. Open the Google Photos app and tap on the menu icon (three lines) in the top left corner.

3. Tap on Settings > Back up & sync and turn the backup process on.

Part 2. Via website

1. Go to the website of Google Photos and log in to your Google account.

2. Click Upload in the upper left corner.

3. Choose Computer or Google Drive to select the files you want to backup.

Backup your photos to the cloud using Google Drive

Here are detailed steps for you to backup photos to the cloud via Google Drive.

Part 1. Via Google Drive app

1. Download and install the Google Drive app from the Google Play store.

2. Open Google Drive on your device and sign in with your Google email address and password to sign-in.

3. After signing in, tap the Plus (+) icon at the corner. And then, tap Upload.

4. Select the files that you wish to backup to Drive.

5. After selecting, tap Open in the upper-right corner. Then, your chosen items will be backed up to the cloud automatically.

Part 2. Via website

1. Go to the website of Google Drive and log in to your Google account.

2. Click My Drive > Upload file or Upload folder in the upper left corner and select the files you want to backup.

How to Sync your photos to the cloud using Google Drive desktop app

Google Drive for desktop (the original Backup and sync )for Windows or Mac can help you backup and even sync photos from your computer, camera, or SD card to Google Drive and Photos. Here's how you set it up.

1. Download and install the Google Drive desktop app to your PC or Mac.

2. If it asks, grant the app permission to access your photos.

3. The app will install a disk on your computer called Google Drive, and you can drag photos and documents onto the folder to sync its contents with Google Drive on Google's servers.

4. To sync folders on your computer with Drive, open Drive for desktop preferences and click Add folder to select the folders you'd like to sync, such as Documents or Pictures.

✎Note: Please remember to adjust the upload size (Storage saver or Original quality) according to your needs, you can go to Settings of Drive for desktop to set it.

Bonus tips: how to get more Google cloud photos storage

As you know, Google Photos no longer provides unlimited cloud storage for photos regardless of the original quality or high quality. And the photos or videos you upload to the cloud will take up the space in Google Drive.

Thus, you must need more storage space for your photos. Of course, you can subscribe to an advanced storage plan, but if you don't want to pay any fee, you can try the cloud backup service CBackup to combine multiple Google Drive accounts to get more space for free.

After combination, you could backup more photos to the combined Google cloud storage. In this way, you can expand your backup space for free and take full use of all your free or idle cloud storage in each account.

Let's download CBackup and see how to use CBackup to increase Google cloud storage for photos:

Step 1. Add Google Drive Accounts to CBackup

1. Run the software. Then, sign up for a CBackup account and sign in.

2. Click Add Clouds under My Storage tab, then select your Google Drive, and click Add. Then follow the steps to grant access to CBackup. Then edit the display name and storage path for Google Drive. Repeat the process to add other Google Drive accounts.

Step 2. Combine Multiple Google Drive Accounts

After adding enough Google Drive accounts, you could combine multiple Google Drive accounts to get more Google cloud photo storage as follows:

1. Click the My Storage tab, and then press + Add Combined Cloud.

2. Rename the name for the combined cloud, and tick all the Google Drive accounts you added above(even other clouds, like Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.), and press Next.

3. Determine the order of Google Drive accounts to store photos using the up and down triangle icon, and press OK.

4. Now, your Google cloud storage for photos has been increased successfully. Then you could backup photos to combined cloud easily with CBackup.

Except for expanding Google Drive storage space, you could benefit from the following features of CBackup:

☛PC cloud backup, which allows you to backup files to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, the combined cloud and CBackup Cloud.

☛Cloud to cloud backup, which enables you to backup files between clouds with powerful features, schedule backup, file filter, version cleanup, etc. Hence, you could transfer Google Drive to OneDrive, migrate OneDrive to Dropbox, etc.

☛Cloud to cloud sync is capable of syncing files from one cloud to another without downloading and uploading.

Conclusion

That’s all about Google cloud photo storage. Since Google Photos has stopped the unlimited cloud storage plan, your Google Drive storage will be full quickly. If you want to get more Google cloud stroage space, it’s highly recommended to try the cloud backup service CBackup to merge multiple Google Drive accounts to expand Google storage space for free.

Where are photos stored in Google cloud?

When you turn on back up and sync, your photos are stored in photos.google.com. Learn other ways to find your photos.

How do I access my Google cloud?

Sign in now (requires an admin account) In any web browser, go to admin.google.com. Starting from the sign-in page, enter the email address and password for your admin account (it does not end in @gmail.com). If you forgot your password, see Reset your administrator password.