9 Ways: Upload Documents to Google Drive from Laptop & Phone

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• Why Add Documents to Google Drive?
• 3 Quick Ways: How to Add Documents to Google Drive in Bulk from Computer
• 4 Basic Ways: How to Add Documents to Google Drive from Computer
• 2 Ways: How to Add Documents to Google Drive from iPhone
• Conclusion

Why Add Documents to Google Drive?

According to the data published by HelloLeads in July 2020, Google Drive already has 2 billion monthly active users. Thus, you are probably save documents to Google Drive for the following reasons:

How to upload files to Google Drive for your local devices, here you can find ways to add documents to Google Drive with the following content.

3 Quick Ways: How to Add Documents to Google Drive in Bulk from Computer

How to upload files to Google Drive from laptop or remote website effectively? Here comes the third-party free cloud file manager, MultCloud, to help. Why? Because you can get the following benefits with MultCloud.

To save documents to Google Drive accounts fast, you can try "Upload File" or "Remote Upload". And following are the step-by-step guides.

• Method 1. How to Upload Files to Google Drive in Bulk
• Method 2. How to Add Documents to Google Drive by "Drag and Drop"
• Method 3. How to Upload Documents to Google Drive by "Remote Upload"

Method 1. How to Upload Files to Google Drive in Bulk

1. Sign up for MultCloud with your email, then log in. Or you can directly log in with your Google or Facebook account. 

2. Click "Add Cloud" under the "My Cloud Drives" list on the left. Then choose Google Drive to add.

3. Click "Upload File" at the top menu. Locate the documents you want to add from computer through the pop-up window. Then click "Open" to upload files to Google Drive in bulk.

Method 2. How to Add Documents to Google Drive by "Drag and Drop"

How to add documents to Google Drive? Drag and Drop is another way for you to upload files to Google Drive, check the following steps.

1. Add your Google Drive account to MultCloud just like the above.
2. Find the documents on your computer which you are going to add to Google Drive.
3. Hold on to the document, use Shift simultaneously to choose multiple documents, and drag them to the browser window that illustrates the MultCloud interface.
4. Drop the documents into the MultCloud interface. Then the documents will be successfully added to Google Drive.

All the selected documents will be uploaded to Google Drive successfully. Check them now.

Method 3. How to Upload Documents to Google Drive by "Remote Upload"

This is a typical way to add online documents to Google Drive through the Link, Magnet, or Torrent without the complicated steps to first download the documents from the link to your devices.

1. Please ensure you have added Google Drive to MultCloud. Prepare the links of the documents that you want to save to Google Drive.

2. Click "Remote Upload" under the "Common Tools" menu at the left. Then click "Create Task".

3. Input the documents' link(s) in the blank section, and choose Google Drive to save the documents.

4. Click the purple button "Save to Cloud" to add documents to Google Drive in bulk.

Although you have 15 GB of free storage in Google Drive, you are very likely to register more than one or two Google Drive accounts in order to get more cloud storage to add documents, photos, or videos to Google Drive without purchasing, or for personal and business use. If you would like to save documents to different Google Drive accounts easily, add all your Google Drive accounts to MultCloud, then add documents to different Google Drive accounts easily on one interface.

With MultCloud, you can also do the following great things for yourself:

So, why not give it a try now?

4 Basic Ways: How to Add Documents to Google Drive from Computer

You can add the documents to the Google Drive website in 4 different ways. The first 2 ways are the same as the ways to add documents through MultCloud but are different from the ability to easily switch accounts which the Google Drive website lacks. 

Method 3 below this title is more suitable for sharing documents directly with other Google Drive users instead of adding documents to your Google Drive and then sharing. 

What’s more, if your documents are in Google form or you are used to working with Google Docs, method 4 will give you great help in adding Google documents to Google Drive.

• Method 1. How to Save Documents to Google Drive by "File upload"
• Method 2. How to Add Documents to Google Drive with "Drag and Drop"
• Method 3. How to Add a Document to a Google Drive Folder of Others
• Method 4. How to Save Documents to Google Drive through Google Docs

Method 1. How to Save Documents to Google Drive by "File upload"

1. Sign in to Google Drive with your Google Account.
2. Click "+ New" in the upper left corner. Then click "File upload" in the dropdown menu. You can also click "Folder upload" if you are going to add a folder of documents to Google Drive at once.

3. Locate the documents stored in your computer through the pop-up window. Hold on "Shift" to select more documents. Then click "Open" to upload documents to Google Drive from laptop.

Method 2. How to Add Documents to Google Drive with "Drag and Drop"

1. Go to your Google Drive page and log in.
2. Find the document on your computer. 
3. Hold on to the document, drag and drop it to the Google Drive interface.

Method 3. How to Add a Document to a Google Drive Folder of Others

1. Log in to your Google Drive account.
2. Ask another Google Drive user (like your family members, friends, or workmates) to share a folder with you.
3. Go to "Shared with me" on your Google Drive. Then double-click the shared folder you received to open.
4. Click "+ New" > "File Upload", and add documents to a Google Drive shared folder that belongs to others.

Method 4. How to Save Documents to Google Drive through Google Docs

1. Log in to your Google Drive account.
2. Click "+ New". Choose "Google Docs" and "Blank document" in the dropdown menu.

3. Edit the Google document in the new browser window. 
4. Then you can just shut down this new window after editing. The Google Docs will be automatically added to your Google Drive.

2 Ways: How to Add Documents to Google Drive from iPhone 

Adding documents to Google Drive from the mobile phone can help you a lot especially when you are away from the office since you can share documents from the Google Drive mobile app in any place at any time in view of the fact that people carry mobile phones around all day long. But one thing that needs to be mentioned is that you can only add documents one by one to the Google Drive app.

• Method 1. How to Upload Documents to Google Drive by "Upload"
• Method 2. How to Upload Documents to Google Drive Automatically from Google Docs

Method 1. How to Upload Documents to Google Drive by "Upload"

1. Sign in Google Drive mobile application with your Google Account.
2. Tap the "+" button in the lower right of the interface and choose "Upload" in the pop-up window. Then tap "Browse" in another pop-up window.
3. Tap the document in the "Browse" interface and the document is added to Google Dive.

Method 2. How to Upload Documents to Google Drive Automatically from Google Docs

1. Download the Google Docs mobile application from the app store.
2. Sign in to Google Docs with your Google Account.
3. Tap the button "+" in the lower right corner of Google Docs app.
4. Choose "New document" in the pop-up selections.
5. Name your new document, then tap "Create" in the pop-up window.
6. Tap the check mark after editing to save Google Docs to Google Drive using your phone.

Conclusion

You may already mastered the skills on how to add documents to Google Drive since you reached here. 9 methods in total for you to choose from according to your specific requirements and situations.

Apart from adding files to Google Drive through MultCloud, it would be best if you use other beneficial functions from MultCloud like Cloud Transfer to carry out the task about how to share photos on Google Drive directly to other of your cloud accounts.