Tag Archives: Terminology

To simplify backups, Google Photos has updated two terms related to the process across the mobile and web apps as well as in support documentation.  To start with, “Backup & sync” is now just called “Backup.” This is the main setting to “enable or disable the automatic backup of your photos and videos to your Google account” and the very first item in preferences. It’s interesting how “sync” is considered a given with modern technology and cloud backups.  In that… Source link

Backing up photos to Google Photos is mostly an automatic task that you set once upon first open and then forget. That’s sort of the beauty of it. But since Google took away free unlimited storage, you may have taken a look at the backup settings in the app and realized that the terms they use to describe both backups and quality can be confusing. Google is changing the verbiage. In a short community help post, Google announced that they heard from enough users who expressed… Source link