You can turn your free and paid Google Drive Cloud storage account to your phone storage whether you are using an iPhone or Android. You can keep your photos online and retrieve them later using a free Google Drive account that will give you 15GB of Cloud-size files for each Google Gmail account you create. Meanwhile, if your photos are not uploaded automatically to your Google Drive account you can manually upload them. So, in this article, I will walk you through how to upload photos to Google Drive on phones [Android and iPhone].
How to Upload Photos to Google Photos
Google Photos is a photo storage and sharing platform created and owned by Google for all users to upload their photos online. It’s one of the few Google services that was created in 2015 alongside Google Plus (retired) to work with the Google Gmail account.
The app can automatically upload photos from your phone, arrangement and make it possible to share them with anybody online or by sharing the photo link with your friends and family across all social media networks.
However, if you are struggling to upload your photos to Google Photos you can take the steps below to ease all of the stress.
- Go to the “Google Photos” web page “photos.google.com“
- Click on the “Keep it on” button to keep organizing your photos by face or “Keep it off” to disregard the assistance offered by Google.
- You should see options like “Get Started” at the bottom left or “Upload” at the top right.
- Toward the bottom right you will see your Google Photos storage size, what you have used and what you have left.
- Click on the “Upload” button on the navigation at the top right.
- Choose “Computer or Google Drive.”
- Select the “Photos” to upload to your “Google Photos” account.
- Select “Original Quality” to maintain the quality of the image you are uploading and click on the “Continue” button.
- You will see the “Progress Bar” at the bottom left and you will be prompted to add the selected photo or photos to your album on your account.
How to Upload Photos to Google Drive from iPhone
- Launch the “Apple Store” app on your “iPhone.”
- Search for “Google Drive – online backup.”
- Tap on the “Get” button to download and install the app on your “iPhone.”
- Launch the “Google Drive” app on your “iPhone.”
- Tap the “Sign In” tab and sign in with your “Google Gmail account.”
- Tap “Files” at the “bottom” right.
- Click on the “+” icon.
- Select “Upload.”
- Choose whether to upload photos from “Photos and Videos” or “Browse.”
- You must “Allow Full Access.”
- Select the “Photos” to upload to your “Google Drive” account.
- Tap on the “Upload” button at the top right corner.
- You will see the “Photos upload” progress bar under “My Drive.”
Once the upload is completed the selected photos will be saved to your Google Drive online backup account.
How to Upload Photos to Google Drive from Phone
You can follow the steps below to upload your photos to Google Drive from your Android phone. The process is simple and stress-free.
- Launch the “Google Drive” app on your phone (Android or iPhone).
- Tap “New” at the bottom right beneath the camera icon.
- Tap on the “Upload” button.
- Click on the “Menu” tab at the top left.
- Tap “Images” or “Photos Gallery” depending on your phone set-up configuration.
- Select the “Photos” that you want to “Upload.”
- Hit the “Done” button at the top right.
- You will see a popup message that a number of selected files are being uploaded to your Google Drive account.
How to Upload Photos to Google Drive Automatically
You can back up all your photos and videos to your Google Drive with a single click on your phone. With this, you won’t need to select photos to upload to Google Drive one after the other. All your photos will be uploaded to your Google Drive account once.
- Launch the “Google Drive” app on your phone.
- Tap the “Menu” icon at the top left.
- Choose “Settings” from the menu.
- Select “Backup and reset.”
- Enable “Backup by Google One” and tap “Backup Now.”
Your phone photos and other valuable will be backed up to your Google Drive account automatically over WiFi.
How to Upload Selected Photos from iPhone to Google Photos
- You first need to download and install the “Google Photos: Backup & Edit” app on your “iPhone” from the “Apple Apps Store.”
- Open the “Google Photos” app on your “iPhone.”
- Tap on the “+” icon at the top before your “Profile” icon.
- Tap “Album” from the popup.
- Click on “Select Photos.”
- Select the “Photos” you want to upload to your Google Photos account.
- Tap on the “App” button at the top right.
- Tap on the “Check” button at the top left to save changes.
The selected photos will be uploaded to your Google Photos account.