It turns out that most people confuse two things that are cousins sisters but are not the same. Google Drive vs Google Photos is the first headache. If you go into the Drive app and <a href=”https://www.empresadeserviciosweb.com/servicios/buscas/”>you search for “photos,” sometimes you don’t see a single one, but then you go into Photos and they’re all there. Or the other way around. Let me tell you how this works.
If you uploaded them directly from your phone to Drive, the most normal thing is that you have to look for them inside the Google Drive app. You go in, tap that button with the “+” at the bottom right and hit “Upload” . But if on your phone you used Google Photos to make the backup, you won’t see those in Drive at a simple glance, they’re in their own place. Google Drive photos don’t appear in the gallery is a search that a lot of desperate people make.
What I told my mother: “Don’t worry, open the browser, go to <a href=”https://drive.google.com/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>drive.google.com and look there calmly” . On the computer they look better. Because on the phone, with the thumbnails, sometimes it seems like they’re not there, but it’s just that the poor phone is short on memory or the app is blocked.
Another thing that drives me crazy is the accounts. How to see photos from another Google Drive account is another mess. My mother has like three Gmail accounts (the usual one, the work one, the one she made for YouTube…). And of course, she uploaded the communion photos with one account, but then on the phone she had another one set up. If you have several accounts open at the same time, sometimes only the main one loads the thumbnails properly .
To find out which account your photos are in, go to one.google.com/storage and there it tells you which account has the space used up . It’s the fastest way to catch the culprit.
Then there’s the issue of permissions. Google Drive can’t access photos the phone sometimes says. That happened to me with an Android I bought recently. You go to the phone settings, look for the Drive app and give it permissions. It has to have the photo and video ones enabled no matter what . If not, there’s no way.
And if you want to see them properly, in a nice format as if it were a gallery, don’t complicate things. Open Google Drive in the browser, in the desktop version (if you’re on your phone ask Chrome to show you the website in computer version), and up there on the right you’ll see a button that says “Gallery” or “Grid view” . You tap there and they all come up one after another, without having to open them one by one.
To finish, one thing a friend who knows about this taught me: if you want to have the Drive photos clearly visible on your phone without going into the app, download them. How to download photos from Google Drive to your phone is easy: you go into Drive, select the photos, tap the three dots and hit “Download” . But careful, because if you have 20,000 photos, your phone is going to blow up. Do it in batches, because we don’t have the patience or the space of a Google server.
