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After the split, both Google Drive and Google Photos will be two separate services. The images and videos you are storing on Google Drive will continue to exist on Google Photos in the future. Conversely, the current images and videos stored in Google Photos will still exist, appearing in the Google Photos folder separately on Google Drive. New photos and videos that you upload to Google Photos will only be available on this service and will not appear in Google Drive. So how do you move photos and videos from Google Drive to Google Photos?
Transferring photos and videos from Google Drive to Google Photos via Upload from Drive
Don't worry too much, as Google has recently added the Upload from Drive feature to Google Photos. This allows users to easily transfer photos and videos from Drive to Google Photos.
Guide to transferring photos, videos from Google Drive to Google Photos
Step 1: Go to Google Photos at https://www.google.com/photos/about/ or click directly HERE
Then, click on Access Google Photos.
Step 2: Proceed to sign in to your Google account.
If you've already logged into Gmail or Google before, the system will automatically redirect you to Google Photos for immediate use.
Step 3: In the Google Photos interface, click on Upload as described in the image below:
Then select Upload From which is Google Drive.
Immediately, you will access Google Drive and see your photo and video data in Google Drive. Here, you can choose Recent (recently opened data), My Drive, Shared with me, or Starred.
Step 4: To transfer photos and videos from Google Drive to Google Photos, select the location containing the photo or video data -> then select the photo or video -> then click on Upload to upload photos, videos to Google Photos.
Immediately, the process of uploading photos and videos is carried out immediately to transfer to Google Photos, and the speed, whether fast or slow, depends on the internet connection as well as the number, size of photos, videos in your Google Drive.
Thus, Mytour has just guided you on how to transfer photos and videos from Google Drive to Google Photos via the Upload from Drive feature - a new feature that appeared in July.
In the past, you could synchronize between two applications, Google Drive and Google Photos, but now this synchronization no longer occurs automatically. You will have to manually upload files as we just instructed above. Since they are no longer linked, if you delete a photo, video, or data in one service, the corresponding file in the other service will remain intact. Additionally, you can explore more tricks for transferring photos from Facebook to Google Photos here.
