How to use Google Photos and why?

Google Photos is the best app to store and share all your photos.

It makes sharing, storing, and finding photos extremely easy and keeps all the metadata intact. (date taken, device taken on, place taken*)

Whenever you share your photos on WhatsApp, it strips off all the EXIF data of the photo, which would mean the date that you captured the photo becomes the date you shared it on WhatsApp. It also compresses the picture considerably. This might not be important, but after let's say 10 years, you want to know when a particular photo is taken, that would make it impossible.

Google photos also helps you sort your entire photo library into People, Places* and Things.

*depending on if you are saving your location along with the photo

How to use Google Photos:

1. Download the "Google Photos" App by Google.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-photos/id962194608

2. As soon as you open the installed app, it gives you a quick start guide via a small animation.

3. Touch "Get Started"

4. It then says welcome your name, where you can select the account, you want your photos to be backed up.

5. Switch on "Back up & sync" (which should be on by default though)

6. Switch on "Use cellular data to back up" only if you are ok with Photos using your data plan to upload photos.

7. Select Continue to go to the next screen.

8. Select "High quality" in Upload size for photos & videos and "Continue"

9. Google Photos again gives you a quick start guide to the application

10. Enjoy sharing.