Anyone use Google Photos on iPhone?

Ant555

A question to anyone that uses Google Photos on their phone

If I have 2Gb of photos on my phone synced with Google Photos then how much storage would the Google Photos copy take up on the phone?

I believe that I can delete a synced picture from the Apple Photos App and it stays 'in the cloud' and also in Google Photos App but if its still actually on the phone somewhere then I am unsure where the big space saving is.

dipsomaniac

afaik google photos backup a copy of photo to their server so no extra space taken up on phone

when you delete a photo from google photos it is removed from your android phones gallery, not sure if the same with apple phone

when you delete a photo from phones gallery though it doesn't appear to get deleted from google photos

London_Ash

If you are syncing the photos, be careful when deleting. Sometimes if you delete a file from your phone, Google Photos will automatically delete the cloud version too. There is a setting for doing it the right way.

Once you delete the photos safely from your device, and they remain on the Google Photos drive, you can then browse those photos in the Google Photos app. If you wish to access those photos, you will need to download them again.

The space saving comes from having your backups all stored on the Google drive, and then local copy removed from your phone. I have all my recent photos from the past 6 months or so on my phone, and then everything from the past 8 years or so on my Google Photos. I can browse the lot from the Google Photos app, or from photos.google.com, but I would need to download them again to access them if I wanted to.

Bear in mind also that the file you upload to Google Photos (if you are using the unlimited free version) may be lower quality than your original. So if you for example upload a high quality awesome picture you've taken, and then delete the local copy on your phone, the one Google will let you download again will be of lower quality. It will still be decent, but not decent enough to showcase for example. So make sure you have an original of your best shots saved elsewhere, such as manually saving them to Google Drive and using your 15GB of free space, or more if you've paid for it.

Ash

dipsomaniac

London_Ash wrote: »

If you are syncing the photos, be careful when deleting. Sometimes if you delete a file from your phone, Google Photos will automatically delete the cloud version too. There is a setting for doing it the right way.

any idea where the setting is as when i delete a photo from my phones gallery it still shows in google photos.

London_Ash

dipsomaniac wrote: »

any idea where the setting is as when i delete a photo from my phones gallery it still shows in google photos.

Sorry I'm a bit confused. You want to delete both the phone copy and the Google Photos copy?

You realise it will be unrecoverable after that, right?

You can simply open the Google Photos app and hold down on the picture or pictures you want to remove and then click the bin icon. The image will then be moved to the bin where you have 60 days to recover if it you wish.

You can also do this from photos.google.com

Ash

Ant555

Thanks,

This bit was the source of my query

Once you delete the photos safely from your device, and they remain on the Google Photos drive, you can then browse those photos in the Google Photos app. If you wish to access those photos, you will need to download them again.

If I delete it from the phone then it still appears in Google Photos which is what I would expect but if I click to open even when in airplane mode - it opens immediately and looks decent quality on the screen. I was thinking it MUST be on the phone somewhere as in airplane mode there is no internet connection.

I guess the Google photos version is just a low res minimal file size version of the file - a kind of thumbnail version of it?

Thanks