How to recover photos from google cloud

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, automatically organized and easy to share.

- “The best photo product on Earth” – The Verge

- “Google Photos is your new essential picture app” – Wired

The official Google Photos app is made for the way you take photos today and includes essential features like shared albums, automatic creations and an advanced editing suite. Additionally every Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage and you can choose to automatically back up all your photos and videos in High quality or Original quality. You can then access them from any connected device and on photos.google.com.

With the official app, you get:

15 GB OF STORAGE: Back up 15 GB of photos and videos and access them from any device and photos.google.com—your photos are safe, secure, and private to you. All photos and videos you back up in High quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage.

FREE UP SPACE: Never worry about running out of space on your phone again. Photos that are safely backed up can be removed from your device's storage in just a tap.

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, panoramas, and more from your photos. Or easily create them yourself.

ADVANCED EDITING SUITE: Transform photos with a tap. Use intuitive and powerful photo editing tools to apply content-aware filters, adjust lighting, and more.

SHARING SUGGESTIONS: With smart sharing suggestions, giving your friends the photos you took of them is painless. And they can add their photos, too, so you’ll finally get the photos you’re actually in.

FAST AND POWERFUL SEARCH: Your photos are now searchable by the people, places and things in them — no tagging required.

LIVE ALBUMS: Select the people and pets you want to see and Google Photos will automatically add photos of them as you take them, no manual updates needed.*

PHOTO BOOKS: Create a photo book in just minutes from your phone or computer. You can also see suggested photo books based on your best shots from a trip or period of time.*

GOOGLE LENS: Search the hard-to-describe and get stuff done, right from a photo. Copy and translate text, identify plants and animals, add events to your calendar, find products online, and more.

SEND PHOTOS IN SECONDS: Instantly share photos with any contact, email, or phone number.

SHARED LIBRARIES: Grant a trusted person access to all of your photos.

You can also upgrade storage for your Google Account, used for Original Quality photos and videos by subscribing to Google One. Subscriptions start at $1.99/month for 100 GB in the US. Pricing and availability can vary by region.

- Google One Terms of Service: https://one.google.com/terms-of-service

- One Google Pricing: https://one.google.com/about

For additional help visit https://support.google.com/photos

*Face grouping, live albums and photo books are not available in all countries.

I lost photos on Google Photos!

“About a week ago, I went to my albums and found that my Google Photos lost photos all. I checked through the phone app so I thought I should check Google Photos on my computer. The photos missing from Google Photos on the computer as well. I figured maybe Google Photos was glitching out and decided to wait a few days to see if anything changes. It’s been more than a week and the albums still don’t show up. Where are my Google Photos? Does anyone know how to get my albums back?”

Since the advent of Google Photos and its unlimited high-quality cloud storage, Google has provided a convenient photo backup method of your Google Drive. But like this user, inevitably, we sometimes encounter situations where we lost photos from Google Photos.

Google Photos missing albums, why does it occur?

Overview of Content

• Possible Causes of Photo Missing on Google Photos

• How to Recover Lost Photos on Google Photos (6 Methods)

• How to Recover Photos from Google Account

• Bonus Tip: Backup Photos in Advance to Prevent Loss

Possible Causes of Photo Missing on Google Photos

Why have my photos disappeared from Google Photos? Google Photos lost albums or photos is a common case, and this case can be caused by different reasons. There are some possible reasons:

• You have multiple Google accounts, but you are not logged in to the correct account containing the photos you need.

• You may accidentally delete it but unaware of it.

• You tapped "Free up space" on Google Photos, the photo or video may have been deleted from your device.

• You may hide the photo from the Photo view but forget it.

• Temporary technical problems caused either by use-side network issues or bugs from Google Photos.

• You may sync your device with Google Photos, so if you enter the device and delete the photo, the photo will also be deleted in the cloud.

If you also cause that Google Photos lose photos due to deletion or other reasons, read on this post further to know how to recover photos on Google Photos even permanently deleted photos.

How to Recover Lost Photos on Google Photos (6 Methods)

When using Google Photos, the problem of "Google Photos lost all my photos" is very common, if you also encounter the situation of the bother will be a headache. Don't worry, please read on. Some feasible methods may help you get rid of photos disappeared from Google Photos problem.

Method 1. Check your account

Some photos may look like they disappeared because you’re in a different account. What you need to do is to confirm whether the currently logged-in account is the account to which you backed up the photos, if not, please log out, and then log in with the correct account.

Method 2. Check archive

If you tapped “Free up space” on Google Photos, the photo or video may have been deleted from your device. But you can find them in the Google Photos app.

1. On your computer, open photos.google.com.

2. Click Menu and then click Archive.

3. Select a photo. To select multiple photos, point to each photo, and click Select.

4. Click More (three-dot icon) and then click Unarchive.

Method 3. Trash at Google Photos

If you accidentally delete photos, they may still be in the Trash. You may still be able to get it back.

1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com, click Menu, and then click Trash.

2. Place your cursor over the photo you want to restore, then click Select.

3. At the top right, click Restore. That photo will be restored to your Google Photos library and added back into any albums it was in.

It may have been deleted permanently. If the photo has been in the Trash for more than 60 days, the photo may be gone.

Method 4. Try incognito mode

Incognito mode is only a partial fix for the problem that Google Photos missing photos, but you can try this method to solve the missing photos from Google Photos.

1. Open a New incognito window in the browser.

2. Login to your Google account, go to photos.google.com, your lost photos may be automatically displayed in incognito mode.

3. Open the photo or album you want and close it. Then, return to the standard browser window and close all tabs.

4. Enter Google Photos again and your files will be displayed immediately.

Method 5. Disable extensions/add-ons/plug-ins

Disable or uninstall an add-on completely if the source or website you downloaded it from is not trusted or reputable. Some add-ons from untrusted third parties may pose security threats, and could potentially harm your computer if you keep them installed in your browser. This may also be the cause that lost photos in Google Photos.

1. Click the Chrome menu button (the three-dot icon).

2. Then click More Tools.

3. Click Extensions in the submenu displayed on the left.

4. Click the toggle switch of the extension you want to disable to turn it off. Or click the Remove at the bottom of the extension to uninstall it

5. If you have too many add-ons, reset Chrome to disable all add-ons.

Click the Chrome menu button, then click Settings and choose Advanced at the bottom of the menu. Scroll down and click Reset settings to their original defaults. And then go to the website to check if the Google Photos missing pictures are retrieved.

Method 6. Contact with Google support team

If none of the above methods solve the problem, try to contact the Google support team and seek their help to learn solutions for recovering missing photos on Google Photos.

1. Go to the support.google.com/drive/ website.

2. Mouse scroll and click Contact us at the bottom of the page.

3. Select any of the three options – Request call-back, Request chat, or Email support. A Google support executive will get in touch with you to fix the issue.

How to Recover Photos from Google Account

How to recover deleted photos from Google Photos? You may want to find your photos missing on your Google account for some reason. Usually, the process of recovering deleted Google account photos depends on two factors:

1. Having a backup of your files

2. Not having a backup of your files

Let's look at how to recover photos from Google Photos under these two factors.

Bonus Tip: Backup Photos in Advance to Prevent Loss

Google Photos is a convenient service for us to manage and access our photos, but when you urgently need some important photos in work or study, Google Photos lost photos will become a very troublesome issue. Even if Google Photos not syncing and Google Photos backup stuck, etc, these common problems will also bring you a lot of trouble.

To prevent the loss of photos, it is best to use cloud backup tools such as CBackup to back up important photos and files on Google Drive or any other cloud drives in advance.

CBackup is a professional cloud backup service, which can help to quickly transfer the data in the cloud disk to another cloud drive without using the computer as a transmission intermediary, so it will not occupy the computer's memory and network resources. Even if you lose your photos in Google Drive, you have a backup version on other clouds.

Here is how to backup Photos from Google Drive to OneDrive for example with CBackup:

1. Please install CBackup desktop app and then sign up for a free account, then log in.

2. Click Add Clouds button under the Public Cloud section in My Storage tab, then select Google Drive, and click Add, follow the steps to complete the authroization. Repeat the process to add OneDrive.

3. Tap Backup icon > Backup Public Cloud to Public Cloud to create a new backup task.

4. Select Google Drive as the destination, and select OneDrive as the target location, and press the Start Backup button to backup Google Drive to OneDrive easily and directly.

✎Utility function

☛Backup PC to the cloud: You can back up Windows PC to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and other cloud drives and the large backup space combined by their storage. If you have a large amount of data, you can also back up your computer to CBackup Cloud, and you can try it to enjoy 10GB of free storage, 1TB or 5TB at a reasonble price.

☛Schedule backup: If you want to automatically transfer files, you could enable "Scheduler" so CBackup can run your task as scheduled.

☛File Filter: The folder may contain some files that do not need to be backed up (such as system files, cache files, etc.), you can set the file type specified by the backup. By setting filter type or retention type, save backup time and space.

As soon as your task starts, you can close the page or even shut down your computer, CBackup can run your task in the background.

Final Words

This is all the reason why Google Photos lost photos appeared. The solution is also introduced to you, these steps will help you solve this problem, you can try these methods. But the reasons for the loss of Google Photos are sometimes complicated, even for some unknown reasons. It becomes very difficult to fix this problem. So please don't forget to use the free CBackup to back up your cloud storage in advance, it can help you quickly and easily solve your cloud storage errors.

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