Gmail will now permit customers to save lots of pictures despatched as attachments on to Google Photos with the brand new ‘Save to Photos’ button. However, the brand new characteristic is appropriate solely with photos despatched within the JPEG format for now and there’s no details about when different codecs can be supported by this new characteristic. This is a helpful addition to Gmail by Google, particularly since they eliminated the sync between Google Photos and Google Drive in 2019. Gmail customers may earlier save any attachment on to their Google Drive, which they’ll not use for saving pictures and movies.

Google introduced the brand new characteristic by way of its Workspace weblog. As talked about, the brand new characteristic by Google permits Gmail customers to save lots of photograph attachments on to Google Photos utilizing the brand new ‘Save to Photo’ button. The button co-exists with the ‘Add to Drive’ button on an attachment or whereas previewing it. Up till 2019, Google Drive and Google Photos had been synced to work collectively however the search large modified this in a bid for ‘simplicity.’

The new characteristic reduces the necessity for customers to obtain JPEG photos and manually again them up on Google Photos. However, media in different picture and video codecs would nonetheless require to be manually uploaded to Google Photos for organising them in albums or backing them up on the cloud.

“This feature will be ON by default. For an eligible photo, you can choose the Save to Photos button which is alongside a similar option to Add to Drive,” the weblog reads. Google has additionally supplied detailed data on add information and folders to Google Drive on its support page.

The rollout of the ‘Save to Photos’ characteristic can be executed steadily utilizing the Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. Users within the former area may have began receiving the replace from May 26, whereas customers within the latter area would begin getting it per week later. Google says it might take as much as 15 days for the characteristic to point out up for all Gmail customers.

Additionally, the characteristic can be accessible to all Workspace customers in addition to G Suite fundamental and enterprise customers. Users of non-public Google Accounts may also obtain the brand new ‘Save to Photos’ characteristic.