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Google Drive will stop backing up photos to Google Photos from August 10 2026
Google Drive will stop backing up photos to Google Photos from August 10 2026
Google has confirmed that its Drive desktop app will stop supporting automatic Google Photos backup from August 10, 2026. The change removes the automatic bridge between Drive-synced folders and Google Photos, though…
The Story in Brief
Google has confirmed that its Drive desktop app will stop supporting automatic Google Photos backup from August 10, 2026. The change removes the automatic bridge between Drive-synced folders and Google Photos, though regular file syncing through Drive will continue. Existing backups in Google Photos remain untouched.
Users who want to continue automatic backups must set them up directly through Google Photos using the 'Back up folders' option or by importing from Drive. However, backups set up through the Photos website only run while the site is open in a browser, unlike the old background sync. Phone backups via the Google Photos app are not affected.
The Indian Opinion
This is hardly a conspiracy to force users into paid storage. It is a cleanup of redundant pipelines within Google's own ecosystem. The louder complaint should be that browser-based backups run only when the Photos site is open, not in the background. A better test: will Google later kill the 'Import from Drive' option too, or will it finally give desktop users a background uploader that does not need Drive as a middleman?
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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