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Asked by: Karin Diaz Cano
technology and computing shareware and freewareWhere do Archived photos go Google Photos?
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photosapp .
- Sign in to your Google Account.
- Select a photo.
- Tap More Archive.
- Optional: To see any photos that you've archivedfrom your Photos view, in the Google Photos app , tapMenu Archive.
In this way, what happens when you archive photos on Google Photos?
You can hide photos from yourPhotos view and move them to archive. This can helpyou organize your photos and hide any photothat you don't want to see often. Any photos thatyou archive: Will still be in any albums that theywere added to, search results, and folders on yourdevice.
In this way, do archived photos get deleted on Google Photos?
You can also bring back photos fromyour archive section back to the main view. This canbe done by selecting the photo (or photos, in case ofmultiple images), then tapping the overflow menu, andfinally tapping the Unarchive option.
Hi Andrew, Free up space is designed to remove anyphotos that have been safely backed up to GooglePhotos from your phone. You will still be able to viewthem any time in Google photos, it just means that you won'thave a copy stored on in your phone physically.