Google has discontinued automatic photo and video backups from desktop folders via Drive
The change was first announced by Google in June
Aug 10, 2026
12:04 pm
What's the storyGoogle has made a significant change to its photo backup policy, effective from today.
The tech giant is discontinuing automatic backups of photos and videos from certain computer folders via Google Drive for desktop.
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