How to avoid losing all WhatsApp photos with Google Photos

For many of us, WhatsApp has become our personal photo album A drawer of personal memories (ours and those of friends) that we want to treasure well. Therefore, it is important to know that we can lock that drawer and keep those WhatsApp photos safe. We are going to teach you how to do it with Google Photos.

Save photos on WhatsApp

Android users will notice that all WhatsApp photos they receive will be automatically downloaded to their hard driveIt is a basic requirement to be able to later upload the photos to a backup. However, on iPhone, the system is different, we have the possibility of not saving the photos and opening them directly from WhatsApp.

It is a very useful tool to save space in the internal memory of the device, redirecting directly to iCloud. However, to carry out this operation, you will have to activate the option. To do so, you have to go to Settings<Chats<Save to camera roll When activated, all photos sent to you will be saved directly to your library.

Google Photos Backup

We enter Google Photos and open the start side menu. There, we go to Settings. Upon entering we will arrive at a new menu, where we will mark Backup and synchronizationIn that tab we can choose if we want our photos to be synchronized with our Gmail account. We can also select the space that remains available and we are given the possibility of buying more storage.

On the subject of storage, it's important that we understand how Google Photos works. The app lets us save the photos in our backup in high or maximum quality. If we do it the first way (it's still good quality, with all the details), Google Photos offers us free unlimited storage

However, if we want to have the photos in their original resolution, we will depend on the hard disk limitations of Google Drive, which free way is 15 GB. To extend them, we must pay.

Folder Copy

If we scroll down in this same menu we will find the option Create backup copies of the device's folders. We mark it and then we will have the option to create a backup copy of a specific folder or album on our device If we have a folder only for Instagram, one for WhatsApp or of captures, we can export them completely to Google Drive. In this case we will focus on WhatsApp.

This option is only available in Google Photos for Android. On iPhone, it is assumed that the backup copy of the photos stays in iCloud, whether we download them to our device or not.

As we see, there is still a significant design difference between WhatsApp on Android and WhatsApp on iOS, with different features that offer advantages for each system.In the case of iPhone, we can save photos to iCloud without even downloading them to our device. Android, for its part, offers the possibility of making specific copies of specific folders from Google Photos, which is useful to free up storage, but allows us to be selective, saving space.

Now you know how to organize yourself better with your WhatsApp photos and how to use Google Photos,if you have Android, to better manage your space on your hard drive without losing your precious photos.