Google Photos vs. Google Drive, which to use? 

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The BEST of all the efforts to explain the relationship of Google Drive and Google Photos. Thanks you. Plan to follow you so I get a grip on "Empire" Google

Do you think in the future they will "blend" both apps? I love the way Google Photos search works and unlimited storage is just perfect, however I also prefer folder system of Google Drive, it's far more intuitive and we are all used to it because of Windows. Albums sort of work but it's still a bit messy. I have loads of photos and I'm having a hard time organizing it all, plus Google Photos loves to order it by date and some dates are just wrong/non existent...

Thanks for the graphics. Helps me understand!

Thank you. This is the exact thing I was trying to figure out. After you clarified the differences for me, I realize I should have used Google Photos instead of Google Drive. I am not finding the Google Photo features are available for all the pix I have stored in Google Drive. You touched on how they work together briefly, but really, I want to transfer them over so I can decrease the amount of space I am using in Drive. I did turn on the setting so that I can see Google Photos in Google Drive.... it's the functionality that I am missing. A tutorial on this would be great!

Very clear. Thanks for the help!

Thank you for a nice clear simple explanation :-) Been using them both for a while but still didn't really understand how they worked together :-/

You refer to the confusion and I think Google added to that confusion much themselves, if not created it in the first place. I understand the requirements for file and photo storage can be different but the overlap is much more than implemented and they could have overlapped functionality much better. Best example is the sharing. In GP you can only publish a a foto to all. Anyone who has the link can view those photos. I think, there are very few users who really want to share always with anybody. Yes, selected photos you may want to share with the whole world, but mostly you have photos that you do want to share but only with selected people as well. You can't do this with GP but you have to go to drive then. On top of that, when sharing pictures in GP, the GUI is very confusing. It refers to" anyone with the link" but then ask you to select the people you want to share them with. This will lead to many people thinking only these people can see those pictures. Well, it's not. Selecting people is nothing more then sending them an email with "look, I have shared some pictures with the whole world and you should know this". I find this highly confusing. On top of that, in the EU this can be conflicting with the new privacy rules and you might better share with nobody at all then. In GD you can be more precise with who you share. Was it so difficult to have the same logic in GP as well. Wouldn't the advantage of consistancy not outweight the advantage of having GP extremely simple and with that forcing many users to use 2 different ways of sharing or taking the risk that many people think they share with some people only wereas they do share with anybody? In times were everybody is talking about the issues with sharing anything and privacy rules, Google is just adding to the problem. Also, wouldn't it be more easy to have folders and albums with identical structures. So you can have an album within an album hence have the advantage of consistancy between GP and GP? They could have made a GP interface just on top of that GD Photos folder and make the underlying data, folders/albums and sharing principles identical and still offer all the advantages of having an interface more suited for photos. Basically, the thought of GP was nice, it's interface is also fine, but the whole thing is just confusing. You read the questions in the net and in this forum, you'll see how confusing this whole interface and interaction between GP and GD is. Check e.g. the questions about how to move pictures between GD and GP whereas the whole thing could have been very simple: GD Photo Folder IS IDENTICAL to GP. Google just messed up the whole thing. Not because it's too complex, but because Google though the should make it (too) simple.

very very clear and objective explanation. thanks.

You provided a great breakdown, thank you!

May 2019 and Google Photos still doesn't allow you to upload preserving folder structure. If Google continue to not listen to their customers I think I will switch elsewhere. You might say that I should just embrace "albums" and working with Google's idea of how to organise. But most people carefully organise their photo collections into folders (for example 2019/04_Big_USA_Roadtrip/Day_5). One of the main points of Google Photos should surely be as backup - otherwise one has to upload somewhere else anyway. But you can't backup with Google Photos because it doesn't allow you to keep your file structure; if I downloaded all of my photos again then they'd just be in one big folder. What if I wanted to switch to another platform too? Here would be my favoured backup system: 1) Keep original RAW photos of my best pictures in one folder, and keep that safe by backing up on external HDD and Google Drive (using up paid storage space). 2) Use Google Photos to save my reduced quality jpegs. These would also be backed up on external HDDs but otherwise not count to my storage space. How could Google object to this?: it's using Google Photos as intended (it holds my full photo collection and they can glean all of the data from it as they want...), my files are safe and if anything messes up then I can back up from Google Photos with file structure. I know that there are lots of nice search algorithms in Google Photos for finding your photos, arranging them etc. But a lot of people want actual control of their organisation, and it's a useless tool if you can't use it to back up your photos in a sensible way. Google: stop being like Apple and allow your users flexibility to work in the way which suits them.

Thank you. Nice concise info. I'm a novice.

Great video, easy to understand. Thanks! If I share Photos in drive or Photos how do I share so they are able to download but not edit or delete? Thank again for a great straight forward comparison!

Thanks for the great video! I've always used Google as my go-to for everything, and this is the first time I've researched google photos vs. drive for uploading and storage capabilities. With the amount of pictures and videos I create, I find it very easy to run out of the "Free Space". I'm going to future research the benefits of Google Photos, as this is looking like the way to go. i look forward to reviewing more of your videos!

since Google drive takes storage space and Google photos is unlimited. what happens if you run out of space... will a picture just be saved under google photos?

Thanks it really helps. Anyway can you tell me the difference between "Google drive" and "One drive"? Are they same?

thank you, this was very helpful!

No, my missing photos are still missing. Only the 50 mentioned below appear. Thanks for you help.

Thank you - very helpful.

Good stuff. I am relatively new to using Google to back up my pictures from my PC. When I first started my Google account, I uploaded all my pictures to Google Drive. I have since come to like auto backup to Google Photos, so I installed that on my laptop and PC and have uploaded (again) this time to Google Photos. I would like to get rid of the duplicates. If I delete a photo from the Google Photos folder in Google Drive, will I also remove them from Google Photos?

Good video, thanks. Question: If Google Photo has unlimited storage, and Google Drive does not, how is it that all the photos I upload into Google Photo are actually stored by Google Drive, with (apparently) no storage limit?

Thanks for the video, really helpful

What about sharing photos? What is the comparison between Photos and Drive when it comes to sharing. Is one better than the other? Thanks

Thanks For Sharing^^

Can you tell me how I can move photo folders from my drive to google photos? I have save photos in separate folders on my drive but they are taking up too much space so I'd like to move the entire folder to google photos but not sure how?

Tell me about the difference between high quality and original quality please tell me

This is a great simple explanation, however, you indicate that Photo is able to sync. Is this both with a device and with a computer? From what I have read, it seems that it only syncs with device. Would you please clarify this for me please?

This was a fantastic video. So.... I'm going to subscribe and check out your other videos. I hope you've stuck with it

Thank You!!!

Hi, hope you can explain something for me. I recently discovering google photo and all it can do. Well, I have hardly ever gone in there, worked only in google drive. I started organizing pictures in folders in my drive. When I perused through google photos, there are a lot more photos I had in there, but not in drive, although drive is where I upload and store and organize into. Where and how did these other photos get into Photos but not in the Drive? I want to reconcile all missing pix from Picture to Drive and have all pictures in drive sync, but cannot seem to make them contain same pictures. thanks and sorry in advance if this question was confusing...

If it says high quality vs original, despite size reduction does quality reduce compared to original?

One question since you offered to answer questions. I made a bunch of videos with my phone and they all uploaded within GP. However, out of ca. 30 videos, only 5 show up in the GD Photo folder. I thought maybe it takes times to synchronise but after 1 day, still nothing more. What could be the cause? I have set the quality setting in GP at high quality to save storage. Thank you for your help. Btw, nice video and helpfull table as well.

I've been using Google photos on my phone for some time now and find it fantastic. I really like how the Google eco system works together and I've been looking for a way to upload old photos stored on my laptop, to the cloud. The thing is, they are all in folders which I'd like to maintain. It seems if I upload them to Google Drive, even if they are within the "high quality"/free quota with file size, they are still counted against my Google account storage space, is this correct? I'd also like them accessible from Google Photos. I know creating albums on Google Photos, doesn't allow you to browse the albums in a file tree structure on drive, however, watching your video and the fact you can show the Google Photos folder in Drive, I got an idea, I went into The Google Photos folder and created a new test folder within that folder. I moved some photos into the new test folder and the photos were no longer listed in the main Google Photos folder, only in the test folder, yet they still show up on Google Photos, which may possibly be the solution many are looking for, that you can upload everything to Google Photos, but still have a folder structure within Drive, but not using any of Drive's space allowance? I'll need to clarify this works as I only tested it a few minutes ago. Maybe it DOES come from your space or maybe there's something else I'm not thinking of. It will of course take some time to set up if you've a lot of folders to upload, but if they are all arranged relatively close in terms of dates etc, it should hopefully be simple enough. I guess best to upload one folder at a time, arrange by oldest first, select all of them, make sure the quantity is the same as the original folder, transfer to a new child folder of Google Photos and then that's it?

in google drive what us mean by 100gb/month ?????

So if the google photos app saves your photos, and you also have the google drive app on your phone to automatically backup google photos, does this count against your storage quota? My understanding that the photos from my iphone are saved to google photos, but will also be backed up to google drive?

HELP.. I need your help!!! I went into google drive settings and selected to automatically put google photos into a folder in my drive as you showed in the video. Unfortunately....my photos do not subcategorize into folders by years or months. How do I do that? Please show a video on this. Mine just show up as pictures and are as tedious to look through as in google photos. I don't know how to upload pictures of what I see but if you need that let me know how to do that too. Thanks

If you delete a photo from google photos will it delete from google drive as well?

I want to be able to have photos (from my phone) on Google drive (or photos) and then be able to delete them from my phone without deleting them from Google drive. Is this possible?

Does google drive without google photo compress photos (jpg) or RAW?

which to use?

What is different working google drive & google photos?? I m confuZz

Is it possible to have your phone pull from Google Photos or drive when uploading pictures to e-commerce sites?

How can I remove Google Photo folder from Google Drive to reclaim disk space and what is the impact? Will it also delete my photos in the Google Photo app. The answer is yes. I trying to free up my Google drive and just keep all my folder in google photo. Its so confusing. I dont want to back up my photos in Google Drive if they are all in Google Photos App.

If I upload my photos on google photos will I have it on google drive? If yes, I did it and don't find it on google drive.

Nice explained! How to transfer Photos from drive to Google Photos? /

if i delete a photo from drive is it deleted from photos and vice versus

How does one handle duplicates?

Hi Scott Google photos do not show photos of google drive I have more than 40gb of images in google drive. I can only see images what I have on my android phone in google photos. Can u help me with it

Great video. I have both apps on my iphone and I pay for Google storage. QUESTION: I want to backup my iphone pics to Drive, but NOT all the pictures on my MAC. For those pics I backup on external drives, another cloud service and selectively when I upload to Google albums using my old Picasa. I removed Google Drive from my MAC so it no long backs duplicate photos. Good Stuff. But . . . neither Google Photo or Drive app are backing up my iphone pics to Drive. What did I do wrong?

They are not same quality what I storage in Google drive why ?

In summary, think of Google Drive as your cloud data server (manage file storage and organization), and Google Photos as the interface app to maneuver through that data on the cloud (edit, categorize, etc). If you want to reduce the storage used against your Google Drive quota, it is likely easiest to just download those hi-res pictures and then upload them via the Google Photos app (which will store the low-res on Google Drive, and will not count against your data quota). Or even better solution, if all that maneuvering is too much of a headache then just up your storage. It costs $19.99/100GB annually. Worth the hassle, my time is valuable.

Is there a way to tag a photo? Multiple tags? Searching?

Firstly thanks for this like helpful vedeos .. and my doubt is ..If i saved all of my photos to google drive and ,deleted all of them from my phone storage ...Then is it remain at google drive ?

Scott, I'm needing some clarification. Google photos storage is free, Drive is limited. You said in your video that photos automatically stores pictures in Drive in the photos folder. Doesn't that use memory just like if the pictures were automatically uploaded to Drive?

thanks dude! :D

Scott, thank you for the video. I'm mostly a novice. I like the convenience of Google Photos and automatic uploads to the cloud. I generate new folders and would like to keep specific photos in specific folders on my laptop. I'd think this could be simple and intuitive, but its not. How do I do this?

Thank you for the video. I have an external hard drive that currently has all my photos in it - by year/date. I have them in lots of folders. I'm looking for a backup storage for them in case for some reason my external hard drive fails. It sounds like Google drive is what I need based on that I can keep the pictures as they are now... in folders... however its a lot of GB so I'd be over my storage limit and have to buy more. If I put them on Google photos they won't be in folders but it sounds like I can do more with them, it's unlimited storage, and they'll also be in Google Drive? I'm a bit confused on that part. Would you recommend Google Photos for what I need or Google Drive?

Hey Scott, I have picasa, google photos, and google drive. Picasa is under the gallery tab. I can open it but most of the pictures don't come up (just blank squares). I know that I only need photos and drive, but how do I get rid of Picasa. I can't find it under the app manager to delete.

How does it effect your phone storage once it goes in both G photos and G drive?

Hello, quick question. If you use the option to automatically create folders in Drive from your Google Photos albums (like you did by date), does that automatically count against Drive storage quota? Or do you have to manually upload them to Drive to count against it?

What if I have photos that I want to store in Google Drive, but I don't want them to appear in Google Photos? Is this possible?

When you open a google photos folder within drive does it then count against your 15k free space?

Question: I have Samsung (Android) phone with Google Photo App. I sync full-size Original photos to Google Photos using Google Photo App. I do not want to loose any resolution. I delete photos from my Android phone on regular basis. I connect my phone with my Mac using USB with "Android File Transfer" app. On my Mac computer, I access the folders and delete all photos. Will these delete photos from photos.google.com also? I am missing full photo albums by day and I'm afraid that deleting from the phone is causing the issue. I can find these photos in the Trash folder of my Google Drive.

Can i enable only the sync function and disable back up function?

Hey Scott, I hope you can help me =) I did something wrong (see below for details), now, in Google Photos (the App) are all my pictures, but in the Google Photos Section in the Menu in Google drive are just new ones. How can I update that? I don't want to upload them in original, just in high quality to save space in Google Drive. But I think the Google Photo App and the Google Photo section in Google Drive should have the same data? Ok, what I did: I uploaded photos automatically in Google Drive (original) and wondered why my space is nearly full. I didn't know something about the settings original vs. high quality, also I moved the Google photos folder out of drive. Than I recognized the option, switchted from original to high quality and saw, that the old pictures are still in the Google Photos App, but just the new one in the Google Photos section in Google Drive, not the old ones.

how to automatically sync camera photos with a particular folder/album on either drive or photos. so far it shows by year but i want them to go in a p renamed folder. is that possible?

I have been using Google Photos for two years. Several days ago I found that 90% of my stored photos are missing, gone. Yet there were approximately 50 individual photos remaking remaining that were uploaded over the past year at various dates. Any created albums like Wedding, etc are now gone. I will delete individual or multiple photos using trash but never more than a few at a time. I attempted to delete and reinstall the Google Photo app on my IPhone but that did not resolve my issue. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thank you!

So. If we delete photos from our phone under PHOTOS it will be permanently deleted, correct? But it will still be in our DRIVE if we said to automatically put Google PHOTOS into a folder....

My photos on Google Photos aren't showing up on "Google Photos" on my online Drive. Why is this?

MY CELLPHONE CARD IS FULL!!!! IT SAY I HAVE TO REMOVE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS IN MY ANDROID SAMSUNG GALAXY J 3 PHONE. I HAVE GOOGLE PHOTOS AND GALARY!!!!!! WHAT CAN I DO TO SAVE EITHER WAY IN GMAIL ACCOUNT OR SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!! HELP PLEASE!!!

I am still a bit confused do I need to have both? or can I just save my photos to Google photos from my phone to my PC without having Google Drive? I ask this because GD is really slowing down my PC. Thank you

Hey Scott. I recently got married and am trying to find a way to share and save all of the photos that both my husband and I take. Each of us have google accounts and I've created a new google account for our "family" if needed for anything. Can you show me how we can set things up on our phones so that the photos we each take are saved to a shared or synced in google photos? Is there a way to do that automatically? I've seen this response in the Google Photos forum about how to do this, productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/zCY8O4yn4DQ but I'm afraid that I don't understand what it's saying very clearly without seeing it. Any advice?? Thanks!

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pain in the rear end...

Believe it or not, not all the world moving to squint screen mobile. Squint screen pics may boast theoretical megapixels. But their dinky "made in China" lenses cannot begin to compete with even the most basic digital camera. Not until Google or Apple reinvents optical physics. Which is unlikely in the foreseeable future. Certainly not for ultra wide angle or telephoto of any reasonable focal length. So those of us who do real world photography need tools like Picasa not just to store and view pics ala Google Drive (which Windows Explorer does just dandy). But to basic edit them (e.g. crop, rotate, view metadata, work with RAW files, zoom, etc.) which Picasa does. Until you address and propose solutions to needs rooted in real world physics not just pocket messaging devices claiming to be cameras, your blog -- I contend -- is just "alternative facts." And we all know who is the maestro of those.

How can we avoid the duplication of pics and videos. My pics and videos are in Google photos and I don't want that in drive, but it's showing in my drive automatically. If I delete it from drive , it also delete from Google photos too. What's the solution?🤔

Thanks very helpful!

Can you tell me how I can move photo folders from my drive to google photos? I have save photos in separate folders on my drive but they are taking up too much space so I'd like to move the entire folder to google photos but not sure how?