Google Drive

We recently had to part with our beloved little dog, who we think was probably near 17 years old. We had her for 11+ years; her first 5+ years were spent in a puppy mill. Once she learned what being loved is, she learned to play, make up games on her own, and fill our home with her loving presence. Losing her was and still is extremely painful. Our daughter gathered all the videos that we had collected over the years. Having these visual reminders of our beloved CeCe is so comforting. It will take many years to think of her without tears, but the videos and photos help soothe our hearts. They give us visual experience of the good and fun times, which were many! Her running circles in the backyard, just celebrating the joy of being free and loved, are treasures. Giving her first trip to the beach was a treat, as we watch her try to dog paddle in the surf that she was seeing for the first time! She never was afraid as long as one of us was within visual or hearing distance. The collection of all the years we had her is priceless, especially in those moments when her absence is so difficult. Thank you for giving a platform where we can collect our most loved moments with our girl. I especially, who spent the most time with her, am so grateful to be able to click on your icon and go to a happy place! This is a wonderful gift for all of life’s memories, captured for viewing whenever we want or need to see our girl again. Thank you so much for this treasure!

I’m writing this review to thank Google! A few years back, I was syncing my new MacBook and somehow ended up erasing ALL my pictures. I was so distraught and it took me sometime to finally accept it. So, yesterday, I’m on Google Drive on one of my gmail accounts, when I have the idea to just check my Trash; of course it has been over three years and I’m not getting any of my hopes up. WELL! Omg, I see that in the trash are ALL my pics that were deleted! I was beyond ecstatic, like finding lost treasure or something! Not to be totally dramatic, but losing ALL your memories is a bit of a tiny trauma! It has happened twice before, both times due to using Apple products! The first time was due to that iCloud fiasco few years back where we all thought syncing meant that Apple was backing up all our stuff to the cloud but that wasn’t it at all! So bam, lost a TON of pics from the two best summers of my life! And then when I bought a new MacBook I was trying to “sync” my photos to Google, not trusting the Apple ICloud anymore, and again I erase literally ten-fifteen years worth of pics ! So anyway, when I found these pics it was like getting back all these great memories and I can’t thank Google Drive enough!!! I mean most Trash just saves things for 30 days max but i just cannot believe my luck, and the fact that somehow I was backing up my stuff to Google Drive and not just Google Photos. It’s the best app guys, iTS LITERALLY THE BEST app to back up photos! Google rocks!

I’m shocked that iOS’s G-Drive is working better than Androids version. This is despite my iPhone 12 Max running on iOS 14.5.1, latest is iOS 18.3 (I think), Jailbroken so can’t update. My Pixel 6 is on A14, and have never seen the thumbnail images of my uploaded pics in Androids Drive. Had no idea that was a thing till I just opened iOS’s version and they all populated super quick. I had issues downloading .AVI video files on my Pixel, when I tried on iOS, zero issues. There’s no option to download those vids on iOS though, however, selecting “open in” I was able to choose my video player app, VLC and it looks like it was saved in that app’s Video List. If you’re wanting to download your saved vids in Drive, you may want to have a good video app installed prior to trying to download them. I’m pretty sure no other options like iOS’s stock “Photos” was an option, but that could be related to my me running 14.5.1. Big props to iOS Devs who did a much better job than Google did on their very own apps, using their very own device. I’m a Fan of both platforms, would never say one is better than the other, I truly believe each have their Pros & Cons, for that reason is why I carry both in my pockets everywhere I go and I’m content with that. Leaving home without either one feels like I forgot my left foot.