Tap Upload in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. Select the photo(s) and videos you'd like to upload to Dropbox.Ĥ. Open the Dropbox app and tap the blue plus button at the bottom of the screen.ģ. Once you've created an account on the Dropbox website or when you first download the app, you can upload photos and videos until your folder is full!ġ. All you need to do is create an account, download the app on your phone and your computer, and you're ready to start backing up your photos and video to the cloud where almost any device with a web browser can access them. See everything you need to know in the Google Drive Ultimate Guide How to back up photos and video to the cloud using Dropboxĭropbox is a free app that gives you up to 2GB of online storage for free. If you want to increase the amount of storage you have across your Google accounts and apps, you'll want to take a look at the available Google One plans. The best part is you can access or download them from any device with a web browser. Google Drive gives you 15GB of storage for free, so depending on the size of the photos and videos you're saving, you'll likely be able to save thousands of photos and hundreds of videos. Your photos will then be uploaded to that location in your Google Drive and you'll receive a notification when it's complete.

You may want to exclude apps like WhatsApp to avoid clogging up your Google Photos account with memes from group chats.(Image credit: Namerah Saud Fatmi / Android Central) Below this, you can select the quality level you'd like to use.Īs you'd expect, Photos will automatically back up pictures from your camera select Back up device folders if you'd like to include other images on your device. Here, make sure you have the Back up & sync slider enabled to use the feature.

Select Settings from this and enter the Back up & sync section. To adjust your automatic backup settings in Google Photos, open the app and slide out the left menu. Free accounts come with 15GB of storage for this. If you want to back up your photos at their full resolution, those images will count against your allotted space shared across Gmail, Photos, and Google Drive. This compresses images to 16MP and videos to 1080p. The backup is only unlimited if you choose the High Quality option in Google Photos.

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