You used the "Free up space" feature and it did exactly what it said it would do and you confirmed. Chill. Unfortunately the easiest way to get your photos back on your device (that was full, mind you, so you better figure out a way around that first), is to use Google Takeout on a desktop computer to download all of your Google Photos. You can choose just the YYYY-MM-DD folders and ignore all others (those contain dupes for the albums, which will be counter-productive in your case). Also change the default archive size from 2 GB to 50 GB to ease downloading. After downloading, extract the archives, plug your phone into your computer, and copy all the photos back to the DCIM folder on your phone. You can ignore the JSON files. Now also realize you have no backups if your photos are only in Google Photos, especially if you don't have a copy on your phone. Use Google Takeout occasionally (I do it every 2 months) and store those archives in at least 1-2 safe places. Answer from yottabit42 on reddit.com
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How can I download all my photo back on my phone ?!
You used the "Free up space" feature and it did exactly what it said it would do and you confirmed. Chill. Unfortunately the easiest way to get your photos back on your device (that was full, mind you, so you better figure out a way around that first), is to use Google Takeout on a desktop computer to download all of your Google Photos. You can choose just the YYYY-MM-DD folders and ignore all others (those contain dupes for the albums, which will be counter-productive in your case). Also change the default archive size from 2 GB to 50 GB to ease downloading. After downloading, extract the archives, plug your phone into your computer, and copy all the photos back to the DCIM folder on your phone. You can ignore the JSON files. Now also realize you have no backups if your photos are only in Google Photos, especially if you don't have a copy on your phone. Use Google Takeout occasionally (I do it every 2 months) and store those archives in at least 1-2 safe places. More on reddit.com
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Reddit
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r/googlephotos on Reddit: How can I download all my photo back on my phone ?!
February 27, 2024 -
So, tonigth I got an alert saying that I had almost no space left on my Google account or something like that. Of course, since the synchronisation is activated I thought that I would simply delete every pics and videos from my "cloud" and keep everything on my phone. Long story short I didn't found how to do so but I saw a message saying that I could free a good chunk of storage by doing something (I really don't remember sorry).
So I do this and all my freaking photos and videos are missing on my phone and are on my Google photo account. I still have very little storage left and so I wanted to redownload everything and even older pictures/videos since my phone have more than enough storage.
I've looked everywhere and tried everything I could but it seems like I can only download 1 pic a time. I can't select everything or only by doing it month by month and if I select more than 1 picture the option to download disappear.
I'm very angry right now and so upset so I'm sorry if I'm not to understandable (I'm not English too so it doesn't help) but if anyone have an answer or a solution I'll be glad to hear it thank you in advance.
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You used the "Free up space" feature and it did exactly what it said it would do and you confirmed. Chill. Unfortunately the easiest way to get your photos back on your device (that was full, mind you, so you better figure out a way around that first), is to use Google Takeout on a desktop computer to download all of your Google Photos. You can choose just the YYYY-MM-DD folders and ignore all others (those contain dupes for the albums, which will be counter-productive in your case). Also change the default archive size from 2 GB to 50 GB to ease downloading. After downloading, extract the archives, plug your phone into your computer, and copy all the photos back to the DCIM folder on your phone. You can ignore the JSON files. Now also realize you have no backups if your photos are only in Google Photos, especially if you don't have a copy on your phone. Use Google Takeout occasionally (I do it every 2 months) and store those archives in at least 1-2 safe places.
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That sounds like a bummer. I'm guessing you used Google Photo app's "free up space" feature" to delete all local photos that have been already uploaded to Google Photos. I am not aware of an easy way to download all the photos back to your phone. The only way I can think of is to download all the photos onto your desktop PC (through something like Google Takeout) and then manually transfer them over to your phones from the PC, which will probably take a few hours.
App Store
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Google Photos: Backup & Edit App - App Store
Pretty solid app. Downloaded it because Apple iCloud got full and had less space plus I’m able to use this on any phone unlike Apple photo app I can download google photos on any device and have all my photos no matter if I break a phone or get a new one I’ll always have my pictures.
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FamilySearch
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Scanmyphotos
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Reddit
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r/googlephotos on Reddit: How does google photos have my old photos?
January 10, 2023 -
I just got Google photos and all of a sudden it's showing me pictures from old phones I had seven or more years ago that I didn't have Google photos on. How's this happening?!
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Did you have those photos copied on your current phone? Did you use Picasa back in the day (those photos were copied to Google photos automatically)?
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Did you upload photos to Drive at some point? If I recall correctly it used to sync them to Photos and after the two products were disconnected a separate copy would have remained in Photos.
Quora
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How could I transfer my old photos from my old phone to my new cell phone? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): * On your old phone, open Google Photos. * Turn on Backup. Wait until it finishes uploading. * On your new phone, sign in with the same Google account. * All your photos will appear automatically.
Reddit
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r/googlephotos on Reddit: How can I see my online photos (and not device photos) in Google Photos android.
May 30, 2023 -
I am talking about the google photos app on an Android device.
I think, in the past, google photos was showing me, by default, the photos I had uploaded to google.photos. So, when I scrolled down I could see my very old photos, the ones that were not on my device. (And there was also a "Photos on device" section, in which I could see the photos on my device, in various albums/folders, like the normal gallery app)
But now I can only see the photos on my device. (I can indeed see my google photos albums, from "Library", with images that are only online). This might have happened when I got a new phone.
How can I set Google photos to show me, by default, the images stored online, and not on the device?
Thanks!
Edit: Thanks for the help. I ended up uninstalling and reinstall it. Now it shows the online photos, but looks like it's very buggy if I too far into the past :)
Google Support
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Find lost photos & videos - Android - Google Photos Help
When you turn on backup, your photos are stored in photos.google.com. Important: If you're inactive in Google Photos for 2 years or more, your con
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