How to Download all Your Pictures From Google Photos?

In 2020, Google Photos has announced ending its free unlimited photo backup, which means the users will not be able to experience the free storage anymore that they have been enjoying in the past. Previously there was an option to store unlimited “high quality” videos or images for free, but now as per the announcement, after June 1, 2021, it will cost, money if you want to upload more than the limits.

The limit maintained by Google Photos to store the photos for free is  15GB of cloud storage. Users will have to either use the default 15GB cloud storage provided by Google photos or purchase Google One subscription to store more data on Photos. Google has taken away its free usage tier and limited it to a specific resolution of photos. Now different from previous, all photo uploads will get counted towards the use of cloud storage space. 

So, this is the time when you need to pay Google Photos for extra storage and you are in panic while thinking about how to save the photos that you have uploaded for a very long time so that you do not lose them as they are your precious memories. We are here to tell you methods to save your memories. 

We have different methods to download all our photos from Google Photo Cloud. The different users would be having different types of libraries in terms of size, organization, and many more. So, there may be different approaches that will suit different users’ situations as per their condition. The most ideal method to download the photos is considered to download one photo at a time, but this could be very time taking.

But downloading one photo at a time is considered to be the most authenticated and tailored method if you don’t want to download all the photos. In case you want to download all photos, below in this article, there are different methods mentioned that can help in downloading all photos from Google Photos. 

Although we know that Google’s unlimited storage facility has ended from June 1, Google will not be deleting your previous photos or changing their quality. They are still available there in the same quality as you uploaded. But the change will be seen in photos and videos that you will upload after June 1. Photos uploaded before that won’t be affected by this change. In case you want to backup all your photos or want to migrate all the photos to a different cloud storage service, this article is going to be very helpful to you. It would be worth it for you to read this article. So, let’s start without wasting much of our time.

Download multiple photos from Google Photos

This is the simplest one among the following methods mentioned. The same process would be followed in both cases either it would be to download the images or to download the videos. 

• To download multiple photos at a time, first of all, you need to go to Google Photos. 
• Now click on the tick mark sign shown somewhere in the top left corner on the photos or videos that you are willing to download. 
• Now to download multiple photos at a time, you need to select multiple photos and that could be done by holding the Shift key and clicking further down in the photo roll.
• Now after selecting the photos, look up at the top right corner for the three dots sign and click it, you will see a Download option to download the photos or you can use the keyboard shortcut Shift + D for this purpose.
• After doing this process, your photos will start to download.

Download all Google Photos at once to a PC or hard drive

Now the second method that comes to you is downloading all photos at a time. Though this is considered to be the less straightforward method it is convenient to download photos in bulk.

So, if you are tired of downloading photos by using the method mentioned above, you can try downloading them in bulk. You must have noticed that there is no way to download everything in batches directly from Google Photos. Now you would be thinking that how are we going to download the photos in batches if there is no way to do so?

Don’t worry let me tell you. You would have heard about the Google Takeout option.

Google Takeout option allows you to download any data from your Google account that you want – this data could be either your Chrome history, your Google Play activity, Google Play Books, your Hangouts history, or the data of Google Photos. Now you need to follow the mentioned steps to download the photos in bulk.

• Firstly, go to Google Takeout
• After opening it, the first thing you need to do is to click Deselect all so that you do not download your entire Google history.

• After this, go down to the list and select Google Photos.

• You will see an option showing “All photo albums included”, click it if you want only specific albums from Google Photos to download.

Note: this step needs the photos separated in albums but if you have not separated them in albums, don’t worry, Google Photos will automatically separate them according to year.

• After selecting your desired photos and albums, click OK.
• Go down to the bottom of all services and select next.
• Further, in export settings, you will find options where you can choose how often you want to download all your photos from Google Photos. Here you will also find more different options like you can choose whether you want to export the final zipped file via an Email or you want it to be sent to another cloud storage option.
• You also get the flexibility to select how large you want your zipped file to be. By default, this setting is set to be  2GB, but it has a maximum size of 50GB. But let me tell you that if you export files larger than 2GB, it will compress the zip files. But Google gives you a previous warning about this as this may not be supported on older systems and you might need to download some additional file compression software to unzip your exports.
• Now after that you are ready, click Create Export.
• After this click, your files will start to export and after some time you will see your photos in your mail. It could take a little or more time depending on the size of the file and if you want to cancel this, you can cancel it at any moment.
• After this export process is completed, Once the export is complete, you’ll be able to download your photos by clicking on Show Exports.
• Now, to your hard drive, you can download these exported zip files.
• And if you have selected an email notification, then you can download these exported zip files directly from your Gmail inbox.
• If you want to make these exports more secure and want only your access to these files. To confirm that the request is made by you to export your photos and not someone else for that you can add a security authorization email from Google.

How to save Google Images to your iPhone’s Camera Roll

• To save Google photos on iPhone you have first to open the Google photos app and follow the steps given below-
• After opening google photos, you have to select the picture you want to download.
• Click on three dots on the right side of the corner and click download.

Conclusion

In this article, we have seen some methods to download all your pictures from Google Photos. As per the new announcement made by Google, almost everyone is thinking of how to download or export their pictures and videos. Whatever be the reason, if you want to download one or many photos in bulk, you need not worry about it and just follow the simple methods mentioned above in this article. We hope that this article will be helpful to you in solving your problems.