Download a single photo back to your device
Open any photo at Google Photos.
Tap the 3-dot menu or swipe upwards.
Choose Download. If the photo is already on your device, the option will not appear.
On my Android device the photo is saved to DCIM/Restored and in Google Photos shown in Camera.
Download multiple photos back to your device
When you used "Free up space" all photos are still in the Photos tab of Google Photos, but the folder structure is lost.
When photos were uploaded with setting "Storage saver" (or former "High Quality") the original is also lost.
On iPhone or iPad
On iOS you can select multiple photos > use the Share button > Save to device.
See also //support.google.com/photos/thread/86166997You can also use iTunes.
On Android (and some also on iOS)
On Android there is no option to transfer multiple photos from Google Photos back to your camera roll.
You can go to //photos.google.com/ on the phone, select several photos, tap 3-dots > Download.
They will be saved as a ZIP file, for example in the "Downloads" folder, where you can "extract" them.You can "Share" selected photos with Google Drive and download from there, but that will probably double the storage used by the photos. Therefore not recommended.
Similarly you can share with "File manager +" when you install that app, and download to the folder you want.You can use Google Takeout: go to //takeout.google.com/settings/takeout in a browser
You will also get lots of .json files which you can delete. I recommend to try with a small album to start with.Deselect all products, then select Google photos
Tap "All photo albums", then deselect all
Select an album, for example "Photos from 2022", and tap OK
Scroll down till the end and tap "Next step"
When settings are OK, tap "Create export" and wait till ready
When ready tap "Download" and Unzip
You can download the photos on a computer, connect the Android phone with the computer (USB cable) and copy the photos to the device. See //support.google.com/android/answer/9064445.
See more options on //www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Images-from-Computer-to-Mobile-Phone
You can use the Google One app once to restore the 200 most recent photos.
See //support.google.com/photos/thread/84975423
Also note that it is not really safe to delete from your device without making an extra backup. See this article.
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Usually on Samsung devices, the Gallery app is set as the default app to import the images. You can change the default App for importing photos using the following steps:
- Open Android Settings
- Select “Apps”
- Select the application that is currently set to open for importing images — Galaxy Gallery
- Click on “Open by default” and click Clear defaults
- Next time you try the import, it’ll show you all the options for importing images. (It might also show you the option to set new default)
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