Google Photos are great for storing your photos and videos but one day you might need to backup or transfer all your photos and videos at once for one reason or another. Thankfully, Google has an official method of doing this through a service called Google Takeout. This guide takes you through the process decade by decade and year by year so nothing is left to chance.

Highlights:

1. Access Google Takeout to initiate the download process.
2. Select Google Photos from the list of available services.
3. Customize your export settings, such as file type and frequency.
4. Wait for Google to prepare the download link.
5. Download and save your files to your device or external storage.

Google Takeout is a planned transfer tool Note that the process to utilize Google Takeout data is as follows: First step, Go to the Google Takeout service page. Once you’ve successfully signed in using your account information, you will be redirected to a list of services. Just scroll down to find Google Photos and make sure the little box besides it will be checked. To export your photos and videos you can either download your whole library or select albums.

Time to Export to Google Photos After choosing Google Photos, it is time to perfect your download. You can configure file type and file size of every archive. Also choose one option, whether it will be downloaded only once or exported on a regular basis. These options make sure your downloading option meets that want and your capacity.

Downloading and Saving Your Files After completing the request, you receive an email from Google notifying when the files are available. This process takes anything from 5 minutes to several hours depending on the size of the library. After that, you will have to follow the link sent to you via email to download your archives without going through the app store.