Download Google Photos On Windows 10

1. Download Google Photo App Windows
2. Google Photos Install Windows 10

Download photos or videos to your device. You can copy your photos and videos back to your device. Computer Android iPhone & iPad. Save your photos or videos. On your computer, go to photos.google.com. Select a photo or video. Now click once on the three-dot menu in the upper right corner of the Google Photos web page. The menu opens and choice #1 is 'Download.' It's that simple. Since you use Google Photos, that means you have a Google account (because you can't use Google Photos without one.).

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• Data added in Google Photos (Descriptions or captions added in Picasa Web Albums, changed date/time, locations) are stored in a database and not downloaded when using the download options in Google Photos. If possible it is recommended to add captions or locations and changing dates before you upload to Google Photos.
• The only method to download both Originals and Edited copies in batch is by using Google Takeout
• Downloading more than one photo at once leads to downloading a ZIP file.

Download a single picture or video

1. Find a picture or video, then left-click to open it
2. Click 'More options' (3 dots icon at the top-right corner)
   
3. Click 'Download' (Shift+D) or 'Download original' (unedited version)

1. Select a picture or video by hovering over it and clicking the check mark in the top left corner.
2. Click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner), then select 'Download' (Shift+D).

OPTION 3:

1. Find a picture or video, then left-click to open it
2. Drag and drop the photo to File Explorer (checked in Windows 10)

1. Open a photo
2. Click 'More option' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download Photo'

Download up to 500 selected pictures or videos using Google Photos

1. Select multiple photos: see here how to select.
   
2. At the top right, click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download' (Shift+D)

1. Open a photo
2. Click 'More option' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download Photo'

Download up to 500 selected pictures or videos using Google Photos

1. Select multiple photos: see here how to select.
   
2. At the top right, click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download' (Shift+D)

1. Open the album by left-clicking on the album or on the link to the album
2. Click 'More options' (three dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download all'
4. All files in the album will be downloaded in a zip file. See below for how to extract images from a zip file.
   When a photo is edited in Google Photos only an edited copy is downloaded

1. while downloading selected photos is limited to 500, much bigger albums can be downloaded. A user signaled albums as big as 40 GB.
   Edit Jan 2021: See https://support.google.com/photos/thread/93196042 : a user signaled that downloads are limited to 2 GB. After I shared the album by 'Create link,' and opening the album from my browser, I was allowed to download a .zip folder in excess of 2 GB.
2. when you open an album or shared album it may first show smaller photos (I have seen 1600 pixels). When you download too rapidly you get small copies and the EXIF data are stripped. You may have to wait a few minutes to get the full size with EXIF data.
   

Download albums using Album Archive

1. Go to your Album Archive at https://get.google.com/albumarchive
2. Click 'More options' (three vertical dots in the top-right corner)
3. Click 'Download album'
   

1. Go to https://www.google.com/settings/takeout and login using a desktop computer.
   Click 'Deselect all'.
2. Scroll down to 'Google photos' and select it.
   The button 'Multiple formats' gives some info about what will be downloaded.
3. Click 'All photo albums included' to get the list of albums. All albums are selected by default.
   
4. To select specific albums, click 'Deselect all' and select the albums you want to download.
   Since December 2020 you find year albums ('Photos from 2020' etc) instead of the many day albums.
   To find albums down the list you can use the Find function of the browser (Ctrl+F). See also Notes 2-3 below
5. Click 'OK' to continue. That brings you back to https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'Next step'
7. Choose how you want to get the data ('Customize format')
1. Choose 'Delivery method' (includes Email, Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box ... ). Select an option to get more info. Note that this will create a ZIP file in all cases, but not all services can UNZIP. Search for example 'Google Drive' unzip to find how to unzip in Drive.
2. 'Export type' (One-time or scheduled every 2 months)
3. 'File type' - choose Zip format
4. 'Archive size'
8. Click 'Create archive' or 'Link account and create archive' (depends on delivery format you selected)
9. After awhile, you'll receive an email that says 'Your Google data archive is ready'
• for example your Zip file is ready to download. Download and unzip the file into a drive that has enough room to store it. The file size could be quite large depending on how many photos are in your collection.
• or where it is stored, for example 'View in OneDrive'. In OneDrive or the like you will find a ZIP file with the photos/videos. To my knowledge there is no UNZIP feature in OneDrive.

1. When a photo is edited in GP the ZIP folder includes both the original and the edited photos.
   
2. In takeout you find many albums with a date as title. That is how they are stored. You may have to unpack them all and move to one folder. ExifTool is quite effective for moving photo files into new folder organization. See a step-by-step blog post by I. Gouy.
   Remark: in December 2020 these day albums are replaced by year albums, which makes it a lot more user friendly.
   
3. Photos that are in your own albums may also be present in the year albums. Thus when you download everything using Takeout there may be duplicatesbetween the year albums and your own albums.
   
   
4. The ZIP folder also includes .json files with data (for example descriptions, locations) added in Google Photos. Google does not provide any tools to add them to the photos, but EXIFTool seems able to do it:
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42024255/bulk-join-json-with-jpg-from-google-takeout
   http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=8154.0
   
5. Takeout does not remove photos from Google Photos.

Download using 'Google Photos' folder in Google Drive

How to get a real backup of your 'mobile photos'

• Two-way syncing propagates erroneous deletions. Every week users ask to recover the photos they deleted from trash accidentally, or which they do not even find in trash.
• Once you remove the device copy (to save storage) there is only one (working) copy left.

• You can manually download photos from Google Photos to your computer by one of the methods described above:
• You can regularly download the recently added from the timeline or from https://photos.google.com/search/_tra_ (Recently added, also available via search box > Show more > Recently added)
  
• When you add photos to albums you can download new albums from Google Photos or via Takeout
  
• Some users suggested third party software (not checked):
• https://github.com/hardikvasa/google-images-download
  
• It is however safer and easier to have an automatic backup
  
• You can directly upload from a mobile device to a second cloud service like OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox or others. You can use this as a temporary backup, and download to a computer (for example when storage gets full), or pay for more storage.
  
• You can even use Google Photos:
• create a second Google account
• share your library with that account and accept the share
  (note that you can share with only one other account)
• activate the option to add photos to the library of the second account
• Your photos are now safe because deletions in account 1 do not sync to account 2
• Only photos deleted in account 1 do count for storage in account 2 if stored as 'Original'.
  When account 1 stops sharing all photos will count for storage if stored as 'Original'.
  
• You can use third-party software like MultCloud to transfer to another cloud (and download from there).
• A user signaled https://pypi.org/project/gphotos-sync/ to automatically download to a computer.

ZIP files

1. After downloading a .zip file using any of the methods above, your browser prompts you to save the .zip file. You can also rename the zip at this time
2. Click 'Save' and specify a location to download
3. Unzip the zip file
1. In Windows Explorer, right click the zip file, click 'Extract All' then 'Extract'
2. When unzipping is finished, you may delete the zip file (but check before you delete)

How to preserve 'Captions' ('Descriptions' in Google Photos)

In Google Photos 'Captions' are called 'Description' and found in the Info panel (click i)

Captions added in Picasa Web Albums (PW) or Google Photos (GP) are lost when downloading from Google Photos.
Captions added before uploading are not lost, but after editing in PWA or GP you get the original caption, not the edited version.

• When using Takeout a .json file in the downloaded zip includes the info about the missing caption, but is hard to use. I found these articles online: latest version(s) of EXIFTool seems able to do it in batch:
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42024255/bulk-join-json-with-jpg-from-google-takeouthttp://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=8154.0
  
• Captions are added to the photo when you use 'Import from Google Photos' in Picasa3 (under the File menu). Note: Google disabled this option end March 2018.
  

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If you know other ways of downloading pictures and video from Google products, please let us know in the Google Photos Help Community: https://support.google.com/photos/community

I have uploaded photos to Google Photos. Now I would like to download these pictures from Google photos to my new Android phone. But Google Photos only allow me to download one photo at a time. How to download all photos from Google Photos at once?

Google Photos works great in backing up photos to cloud storage and syncing them over all devices, while it neglects users' need to download photos, especially all photos, from the service. When you need to download photos from Google Photos to PC, Mac, iPhone or transfer pictures from Google Photos to gallery, you can follow these tips.

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How to Download All Photos from Google Photos to PC/Mac

Select All Photos and Download from Google Photos

Step 1 On your PC or Mac, open photos.google.com in the browser.

Step 2 Select the photos you want to transfer from Google Photos to the computer. Choose Download.

Step 3 Since there is no select all option on Google Photos, to select all photos to download:

• Select the first photo on Google Photos;

• Keep holding Shift key and scroll down to the last photo;

• Click the last photo to select all photos.

• Click three dot icon in the top right corner and choose Download.

Google Takeout to Save All Photos to Computer

Google Takeout allows you to download all files/photos from Google Drive, Google Photos, etc. to PC, Mac or other devices.

Step 1 Open Google Takeout in Google Chrome.

Step 2 Select the Google service that you download photos from. To download all photos from Google Photos, choose Google Photos. Click Next.

Step 3 You can choose the file type, size to save the Google photos and how you would like to receive the photos.

Step 4 An archive of photos from your Google Photos will be created. Click Download to save all the photos from Google Photos to your computer.

How to Restore Pictures from Google Photos to Phone

Save Picture from Google Photos to Device

Google Photos app has Save to device option for us to move pictures from Google Photos to Gallery, but only one photo at a time.

Step 1 Open Google Photos on your phone. Select the photo you want to download to Gallery.

Step 2 Tap the three dot icon on the top and select Save to the device. The picture will be downloaded to Gallery.

Download All/Multiple Photos From Google Photos with Google Drive

If you want to download all photos from Google Photos to phone, you can make use of Google Drive.

Step 1 Open Google Drive and choose Google Photos.

Step 2 Select the pictures that you want to get from Google Photos. To select all pictures in Google Photos, tap three dots icon > Select All.

Step 3 Tap Download icon to download the picture to your device.

If you don't use Google Drive, you can also restore all your photos backed up to Google Photo to device in these steps.

• Use Google Takeout to download photos on your PC;

• Transfer the photos from PC to Android/iPhone.

Google Photos is Confusing? Try A Simpler Backup Method

It is important to back up precious photos, videos on the Android phone. However, Google Photos can be very confusing:

• It doesn't provide a straight-forward to restore photos from the Google backup;

• Google Photos sometimes can't upload, sync, backup our photos for unknown reasons;

• Photos disappear from Google Photos from time to time because of software bugs.

Instead of backing up your photos to unstable and complicated Google Photos, why not switch to a more straight-forward method: backing up the photos to PC? And other than coping all photos to PC, which will occupy much storage of your computer, FonePaw Android Data Backup & Restore can save all your Android photos/videos in a small-sized backup file to the computer. It is easy to back up and restore.

Download Android Data Backup & Restore on PC.

Download

Step 1 Launch the program and connect your Android phone to PC with USB cable.

Step 2 Click Device Data Backup and choose to back up photos, videos only. Tick Encrypted backup to encrypt the backup. Click Start. A backup file will be saved in a chosen folder.

Step 3 When you need to restore the photos to Android device:

Download Google Photo App Windows

• Connect your phone;

• Choose Device Data Restore;

• Select the backup of your Android photos. Click Start. (If you have encrypted the backup, you'll need to enter the password)

• Preview the backed up photos. And select the photos you want to restore, click Restore.

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Backing up photos to PC is much simpler than backing up the photos to Google. What do you think? Leave your comment below.