Open Google Photos on your mobile device, then go to the ‘Sharing’ option at the bottom. No matter who creates the shared album, anyone that gets invited to the group can invite others as well, so it’s not necessary to have a single person invite all the participants. This does require everyone that’s going to participate to have a Google account, which they can create for free if they don’t already have one. Remember that Google's maximum account storage also includes services like Google Drive and Gmail as well as Google Photos, so if you've used up your storage elsewhere, any new files you add won't be backed up automatically.Apple is pretty proud of how they do things and they aren’t really interested in allowing Android users in so my recommendation is to use Google Photos.Īnyone in the group can start the process by using Google Photos to create a new album and then share it with the group. Google updated its unlimited storage policy (opens in new tab) for Google Photos in June, and you now get 15 GB of Google account storage for free. Helpfully, Google also lists the types of RAW files (opens in new tab) that you can backup, so if you're a photographer who shots and stores RAW images (opens in new tab), check that first.

There's a few restrictions on the type of files (opens in new tab) that can be backed up – your photos can't be larger than 200 MB or 150 MP, and videos need to be under 10 GB. If you don't want Google Photos to eat up a lot of your mobile data, then you'll also need to set it to only backup media when you're connected to WiFi.

To backup Google photos, you'll need to ensure you have a decent internet connection. How to backup Google Photos: before you start

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