Last Updated: March 27, 2024, 13:31 IST
OnePlus and Oppo telephones working on Android 14 can use this function.
Using the brand new Google Photos sync function, anyone with a OnePlus or Oppo cellphone can get their domestically-saved pictures mixed with the cloud media.
Google Photos customers can now again up their pictures and movies domestically saved on telephones from manufacturers like OnePlus and Oppo. That’s proper, the native Gallery app on OnePlus and Oppo telephones mean you can sync the content material with Google Photos account, which suggests all of your media content material is seamlessly accessible throughout gadgets linked with the identical Google account.
The function has been noticed by dependable tipster Mishaal Rahman this week, and we have been independently in a position to confirm the function utilizing a OnePlus cellphone. The integration appears to have made its technique to ColorOS and OxygenOS software program that you just get with Oppo and OnePlus telephones, respectively, in markets like India.
Google Photos Sync With Local Photos App: How It Works
If you will have a OnePlus/Oppo cellphone, head over to the Photos app the place the photographs clicked from the cellphone’s digital camera are domestically saved. Click on the three-dot menu on the high-proper and go to Settings. Now, you’ll discover the choice Backup to Google Photos, faucet on it to see the following step. Enable the backup toggle and the cellphone will allow you to backup the albums, handle storage or cellular information utilization for backing up the pictures.
Before that, the Photos app will ask your permission to let it sync with Google Photos. It will present you this message (seen beneath) in a drop field, “Photos app will allow Google Photos to back up photos and videos on your device. Show and manage Google Photos, including your photos and videos, Google Photos backup settings, backup status of your photos and videos and Google backup account.”
Once you enable the Photos app the Google Photos entry, the backup to your native gallery app will begin straight away. The Photos app additionally mentions which you can disable the backup choice at any time from the settings within the app. For the pictures sync function to work, it is advisable to have the newest OxygenOS 14 or ColorOS 14 model working on the respective cellphone fashions. The tipster additionally mentions the function works when you have a Xiaomi/Redmi cellphone with MIUI model working on Android 14.
The function might be useful to hundreds of thousands of customers who’ve wished a neater technique to sync their pictures with Google Photos while not having a a number of loop course of to make it occur. Having mentioned that, the sync function does have some limitations, which incorporates, the lack to again up albums and extra importantly, limiting AI edit options that you just get from the system itself.
