Say what Photos backup does
Whether your pictures would survive losing the phone.
Backup in Google Photos copies every picture you take into your Google account.
Lose the phone and the copies remain, on any device you sign in on.
Key points
- Backup copies every picture into your Google account, so losing the phone loses nothing
- The two stay matched, so deleting here deletes the copy
What to remember
- Read the line under your account picture.
- Backup matches two places. It is not an archive of deletions.
Try this
Open Photos on your phone and press your account picture. The top line says whether backup is on.
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