Beware of Losing Data, Stop Using Google Photos as a Photo Backup Tool

JAKARTA - Many people are still wrong in understanding the function of Google Photos. This application is often considered as a photo backup tool, but that is not the actual function.

The working principle of Google Photos relies on data synchronization between devices directly. This means that if you delete a photo on your phone, the photo will also be automatically deleted in the cloud storage.

This system is of course different from the actual backup, where data will still be stored. All files that are backed up should remain protected from human error, hardware failure, to cyber attacks such as ransomware.

The Risk of Making Google Photos a Backup Tool

If you have been using Google Photos as a backup tool, this will endanger your data. When you exceed the recovery time limit in the trash folder, Google will permanently delete the item from their servers.

Account access problems can also be a problem because Google accounts can be suspended at any time. If you lose access to the account you usually use, the entire collection of photos in the application will not be accessible.

Quality aspects also need to be considered. Google Photos has a compression system that can reduce the original resolution of photos. This is good for Google because they want to save space, but users will be disadvantaged because the quality cannot be restored to the original version.

Therefore, the action of making Google Photos as a photo backup tool needs to be stopped. You need to look for other backup tools that are safer, such as external hard drives or cloud services such as Google Drive.