My friend's phone is a Moto G 5 g. He wants to do some things with it but barely knows the basics. How does he save photos to his googoo account via wifi? I would probably advise against this sort of thing, but...I tried to help and didn't get far. He is currently using wifi only and is trying to back up with Photos but it keeps showing that regular stuff that comes with a carrier. I don't see any options for wifi.
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Saving Photos over wifi
- Thread starter Rgarner
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just make sure he has google photos. it should automatically back up his photos. he can verify this by hopping onto his computer and go to Google Photos: Edit, Organize, Search, and Backup Your Photos and sign in.....his photos should be there.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
My three moto cell phones are usually the wifi is in the drop down in the upper left hand corner., Should automatically save them, tell them do not touch the photos and it snaps to his google photos account.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Give it time.
I do not have to watch over it so much.
how many photos are we talking about?
Since it hadn't been done it's quite a few. Also, he wants to be able to back up screenshots. It took a while for me to find where to choose backup but there's only documenrs. I made sure that was on at least. How do we tell it to back up screenshots and generally have a wider choice of options? It's a Samsung A15, maybe a few months old. I'm not sure of the Android version but I bet 12 if not higher.
Milo Williamson
Extreme Android User
Google photos also uploads documents too, preferably dropbox for my perique.
it should automatically backup your screenshots. and if there a lot of photos then you will need to give it sometime to backup everything. also it will depend on the speed of your wifi signal. if you have slow internet then it could take a long time to backup. but once it is backed up, then going forward it should be a much quicker process.
also to verify you can go into google photos on the phone. select the avatar at the top right corner and then backup. it should say in progress or backup complete. also check to see if the google account has been synced as well.