Do you want to know how to download photos from Google Drive in iPhone? This comprehensive post can offer you 5 ways. You can learn how to download via the Google Drive app, the Files app, your computer, and MultCloud. Read the detailed steps inside!
There are several reasons why you might want to download photos from Google Drive to your iPhone:
Downloading photos from the Google Drive app to your iPhone is the most common way. You can easily choose what you want to download and click the download icon to save the photos. However, this way can only download one photo at once. Therefore, if you have multiple photos to download, much time will be spent on it.
Step 1. Download and install the Google Drive app on your iPhone. Then, log in to your account.
Step 2. Select the photo you want to download to your iPhone.
Step 3. Click the 3-dot icon, and select “Download” in the menu. Then, you can open the Photos app to view this photo on your iPhone.
You can also take advantage of the iPhone’s Files app to download photos from Google Drive. But this way is not as easy as the previous one. Also, you can only download one image at once.
Step 1. Download and install the Google Drive app on your iPhone.
Step 2. Open the Files app on your iPhone and go to the “Browse” section.
Step 3. Select Google Drive under Locations.
Step 4. Choose the photo you want to download and open it.
Step 5. Click the share icon in the lower-left corner and “Save Image” to save this photo to the camera roll.
If you do not want to download the Google Drive app on your iPhone since it will occupy your local storage, you can also download photos from the Google Drive web on your computer.
Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer with a cable.
Step 2. Open the Google Drive website and log in to your account.
Step 3. Select the photo or folder you want to download and click the download icon to download it to your computer.
Step 4. Open File Explorer, drag the downloaded photo or folder, and drop them into your iPhone folder.
If you also use other cloud storage services like iCloud Photo, Flickr, put.io, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., you can manage them in one place on MultCloud. MultCloud is a professional cloud management service which can help you manage all your cloud files together with basic and cloud-to-cloud functions. After adding Google Drive to MultCloud, you can also download photos to your iPhone on MultCloud on your computer.
Besides, if you use enable iCloud Photos on your iPhone, you can use MultCloud Cloud Transfer to directly move photos from Google Drive to iCloud Photos. With Cloud Transfer, you do not have to download photos from Google Drive and then upload them to iCloud Photos. You can just create an automatic transfer task. Besides, MultCloud is a web-based app so Cloud Transfer can be used on your preferred web browser on any device.
Step 1. Go to MultCloud and sign up for a free account.
Step 2. Click “Add Cloud” and the Google Drive logo to add Google Drive to MultCloud. Also, repeat the steps to add iCloud Photos to MultCloud. However, you have to go through the two-factor authentication after entering your iCloud Photos login credentials.
Step 3. Select “Cloud Transfer” in the left sidebar and choose Google Drive photos as the source and one iCloud Photos folder as the target. Then, tap “Transfer Now” to start the task.
Note: Since you may not have photos on your Google Drive, you can take advantage of “Filter” in “Options” to batch-select all the photos with their file extensions like .jpg or .png for transfer.
Step 1. Sign up for an account and add Google Drive to MultCloud.
Step 2. Open Google Drive on MultCloud and select your desired photo. Then, click “Download” in the upper bar.
Step 3. Connect your iPhone to your computer with a cable and open the iPhone folder. Then, drag the downloaded photo and drop it to the folder to finish the downloading task.
There are 5 solutions on how to download photos from Google Drive to iPhone. You can download from the Google Drive mobile app, your iPhone’s File app, your computer, and MultCloud. If you want to batch-download multiple photos to iPhone at once and you are using iCloud Photos to save iPhone photos, the MultCloud Cloud Transfer way is recommended. It can help you quickly move all your photos from Google Dirve to iCloud without maually downloading and you do not need to install any desktop app which may occupy your local storage.