Google Photos: How to Download All Your Photos (2021)

Today we will explain you step by step how you can download all your photos and videos from Google Photos. To do this you have to follow a simple and unique method, both on PC and on mobile (the peace of mind that is very, very simple). Remember that with Google Photos it doesn't matter if your photos are saved on your mobile or not, they are all in the Google Photos cloud in so you can download the ones that interest you.


Fortunately for everyone, Google makes it simple enough the process of download images and videos from Google Photos, so if you follow our guide step by step, you won't have any problem.


Google Photos: How to Download All Your Photos (2021)

Learn how to download images and videos from Google Photos.

How to simultaneously download photos and videos from Google Photos Google

It is not a diversi modi per download photos from Google Photos: in batch, manually selecting albums or individually.

When we download all our photos from Google Photos, we will use the tool Google Takeout, which allows us to download all content that Google stores about us, including images and videos from Google Photos.

It is worth mentioning that you can perform this process from both a computer and a mobile phone. In any case, the steps to follow for download photos from Google Photos are the same:

  1. Go to the Google Takeout website.
  2. Tap on «Deselect all», as in this case we only want to download the content of Google Photos.
  3. Scroll until you find the option for Google Photos and flag.
  4. Tap "Next step".
  5. Choose the download parameters: you can receive the download link on your email, choose the export frequency or even change the format and size of the downloaded files.
  6. When done, tap "Create Export".

Google Photos: How to Download All Your Photos (2021)



Then you can download all your photos from Google Photos.

After a while' you will receive the link to download in so you can download all your photos and videos from Google Photos. Depending on the content you have stored on the cloud drive, this process will take more or less time.

In any case, it is worth remembering that you can download your photos from Google Photos to your computer or on your Android phone.

How to download only the albums we want

But if you don't want to download all photos from Google Photos and all you want is to recover some specific albums, you can also do it with the same Google tool.

In this case, all you need to do is make sure you know the names of each album you want to download and follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Google Takeout website.
  2. Tap on «Deselect all», as in this case we only want to download the content of Google Photos.
  3. Scroll until you find the option for Google Photos and flag.
  4. Tap "All Photo Albums Included" to display the album selection menu. Select all the ones you want to download.
  5. Once you have selected all the desired albums, tap «Next step».
  6. Choose the download parameters: you can receive the download link on your email, choose the export frequency or even change the format and size of the downloaded files.
  7. When done, tap "Create Export".

How to download specific photos and videos

Google Photos: How to Download All Your Photos (2021)


Google Photos for Android.

Of course, it may also be the case that you are a casual Google Photos user who has only used the application in a specific way to save the odd image or video. If so, you may just want to download some photos.


If that's the case, here's what you should do for recover specific images or videos from Google Photos:

From the computer

  1. Go to Google Photos and mark the photos you want to download. You can tag all photos from a specific day by tapping on the date.
  2. With the images marked, tap the three-dot icon at the top right and choose the "Download" option.
  3. Choose the path of the compressed file to download.

From the phone


  1. Open the Google Photos app.
  2. Open the photo or video you want to download.
  3. Scroll up until the options menu appears and tap "Download".

Unfortunately, the Google Photos mobile app doesn't offer the option to download multiple images or videos at the same time and then you will have to download the images one by one. For this reason, perhaps the best option might be to turn to the computer for download all our photos, or mark only the ones we want and get them in a compressed file.

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