Photos in to Google instead of on device

[adeyjones]

Hi all, we have a Samsung Galaxy 21 Ultra phone, and it has 120gb storage. Unfortunately the storage is full, 70gb of it is photos and videos in the gallery.

We have signed up for Google photos space and started backing everything up to that, and are confident that if we delete a photo from the device, it will be retained in Google Photos - that bit is fine - we will eventually clear out all photos in the gallery and view in Google Photos going forward.

But from this point, any photos or videos taken from the camera will still save to the device (as well as auto backing up to Google Photos) - is there any way to prevent this to save duplication? Don't want to have to keep going in and clearing them out.

Thanks for your help.

[Robin999]

I don't think you can. Take a photo and it automatically gets saved to internal storage/DCIM/camera.

[Glenntech]

The Google Photos is a third party backup place to store Photos.
When you take an image, it's gets saved and then software process's the image.
If you didn't have an Internet connection or poor reception, a photo you take wouldn't get saved on the third party servers.
Plus to get photos directly saved to Google Photos, would require various other privacy permissions that would be a bit intrusive anyway. Think Google is intrusive enough really

[GoanGeek]

Google photos have an option where it automatically deletes the phone photos when they have been uploaded to Google photos.

1. It's actually better to retain the photos on your phone even when they have been uploaded to Google photos.

2. Make sure you upload in full resolution to Google photos.
Yes, you will have to get more storage, but it's better.

[TechZilla]

I would personally just manually check every month which photos have been backed up and then bulk delete them from your gallery on your phone. The phone will automatically tell you which ones you can delete.

[facu1ty]

Transfer everything onto Google photos. Then reset your phone. Whatever picture or video you'll need, you can just download from Google photos. I've done this myself.

[cac113]

How do you do this? How do you set it so that it deletes it from my phone and only saved on my google drive? because I am running out of space too.

[AndrewL]

@cac113: I'm not sure if this feature is automated, but it is a quick and easy way to delete photos from your internal storage after they have been backed up to Google Photos.

With this in mind, please open Google Photos on your phone> Tap your profile in the top right > Free up space on this device, and follow the on-screen prompts.