Whether you want to back up your memories to a physical drive, or you're interested in switching cloud services, you might first be wondering how to export your Google Photos library. Whatever your reasons, Google actually already has a powerful tool for you to access, download, and take your photos or data and move them wherever you want. It's called Google Takeout, and we'll show you how to use it to export and download a copy of your data from Google Photos. How to export your photos from Google Photos This process is easiest to manage from a computer rather than your phone or tablet. Open up Google Takeout from your web browser. Make sure that you are logged into your Google account . Choose what categories of personal data that you wish to export. For this guide, we'll only click on the Google Photos checkbox . (Note that you can click Deselect all, and then just click on Google Photos). Underneath the Google Photos selection, you can click to get infor