{"id":679848,"date":"2026-06-02T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:09:27","slug":"google-photos-now-lets-you-schedule-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679848\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos now lets you schedule exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-photos-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google Photos is an excellent backup service for photos and videos, but it\u2019s not necessarily the only thing you might want to use. Whether it\u2019s mirroring your library on a local drive or anything else, Google Photos is adding a helpful new option to schedule exports, including only the exports of newly-added content.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to export from Google Photos has been a part of Takeout for years now, but it\u2019s been an all-or-nothing affair. A single export of your library, with potentially years worth of photo\/video backups, could take up a ton of space and a ton of time just to download. <\/p>\n<p>Google is <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/photos\/thread\/438190838\/schedule-regular-exports-of-changes-to-your-photos-library?hl=en&amp;sjid=17393070363487170589-NA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">addressing <\/a>that pain point with support for \u201cIncremental Takeout for Photos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This allows Google Takeout to export from Photos with one full export, followed by scheduled exports that include anything new that\u2019s been added to your library since the initial export. As Google <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/photos\/thread\/438190838\/schedule-regular-exports-of-changes-to-your-photos-library?hl=en&amp;sjid=17393070363487170589-NA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Full initial export:\u00a0Your first scheduled export contains all your selected photos and albums.<\/p>\n<p>Future exports:\u00a0The next exports in your schedule include items uploaded, backed up, created, or edited since your last successful backup. This saves you time and storage space.<\/p>\n<p>You can access the new option <a href=\"https:\/\/takeout.google.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Google Takeout <\/a>by selecting only Photos as an export option. From there, you can have exports delivered every two months for the next year, with files as big as 50GB. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"517\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780405760_981_image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-716551\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>More on Google Photos:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768288030_634_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768288030_158_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Photos is an excellent backup service for photos and videos, but it\u2019s not necessarily the only thing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-679848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}