
If you rely on Photos to backup images from those sites and others, here’s how to turn it back on. Other services affected include LINE, Helo, Snapchat, Viber and Messenger, an XDA developer told Android Police. The tweaks and small additions to Google Photos continues with the Info pane on the web getting a rather useful Backed up. iCloud Photos being backed up twice I have had iCloud Photo Library turned on for years on my iPhone X. On my own phone, folders for Twitter, downloads, Instagram, screenshots, Slack and WhatsApp all have “back up & sync” disabled. Google Photos website starts showing the backup quality of every image. Other services including YouTube and Netflix made moves to reduce bandwidth strain caused by the Pandemic several months ago. With many folks still in lockdown exchanging images and video, Google Photos may have been consuming a fair amount of your bandwidth behind the scenes. Backup Photos to Google Photos on PC There are mainly two possible ways to backup your photos to Google Photos on a PC. Many folks might not even be aware that Google is doing this and of course images are usually kept by your messaging app until you delete them. These photos and videos will remain free and exempt from the storage limit. The change appears to be temporary and you can manually re-enable backups for any service of your choice. Your existing High quality photos and videos are exempt from this change: Any photos or videos backed up in High quality before June 1, 2021, will not count toward your Google Account storage. According to a community message, Google is doing it to save resources because “people are sharing more photos and videos” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Google Photos will no longer back up images from WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and other messaging and social media services, the service announced (via Android Police).
