To view pictures taken with your smartphone on your home PC, you need to use a cloud service. Here’s how to do it with Google Drive
One of the features you take into account the most when buying a smartphone are the photo sensors. As cell phones have become portable cameras, companies are producing smartphones with more and more internal memory.
But if you take a lot of pictures, you don’t always have enough storage space. Sometimes you need to delete pictures you don’t need to take to free up space and improve your device’s performance. Alternatively, you can upload the photos you take with your smartphone to a cloud service, so that you always have them available without taking up your device’s memory. This is a very convenient solution but it is not used by many people. For example, Google provides an infinite amount of space on Google Photos, as long as the resolution of the images is not too high.
Saving your smartphone images on the cloud allows you to download them to your computer and edit them with a professional photo editing program. This is a very useful solution both to free up space on your smartphone and to have your favorite pictures on all the devices you use. Here’s how to download your smartphone photos to your computer using Google Photos.
How to save images to Google Photos
Although it’s a service made by the Mountain View company, the Google Photos app is available on both Android and iOS. In order to use the space on the cloud you will need to have an active Google account. The first step to do is to download the Google Photos application (if you are an Android user it is already present on your device). After installing it and logging in with your Google account, you’ll have to go into Settings and then Backup and synchronization. On the new page that opens you should check that there is a check mark next to the “Backup and synchronization” option. In this way, all the images you take with your smartphone will be saved on the cloud space as well.
Once you’ve finished configuring your smartphone, you’ll have to switch to your computer. To complete the first step, you’ll need to download the Google Drive client to your computer in order to access your account. Once the program is installed, you’ll have to configure it and do the folder synchronization. You’ll have to wait a few minutes, but once this step is completed you’ll have all the images on your smartphone on your computer as well. Nothing too complicated: it only takes a few minutes to save the smartphone’s photos to the computer.