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Samsung Gallery, Cloud Backup, Transfers & Hidden Photos

Organise, back up, transfer, hide and recover photos on a Samsung Galaxy: the Gallery app, Samsung Cloud and OneDrive, and moving photos to a PC or Mac.

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Gallery, Backup & Sharing

Samsung Gallery App: Organise, Search and Back Up Photos

How to organise, search, hide, recover and back up photos in Samsung Gallery, including the end of OneDrive sync and Google sync in One UI 9.

8 min read
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Gallery, Backup & Sharing

Samsung Gallery albums and collages: organise and combine photos

How to make albums, auto albums and collages in Samsung Gallery, use Collections and Stories, hide an album, and find the Freeform collage layout.

7 min read
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Gallery, Backup & Sharing

Samsung Cloud photos: where they went and how to back up your Galaxy photos now

Samsung Cloud stopped keeping Gallery photos in 2021 and OneDrive sync ended in 2026. How to back up Galaxy photos now, on One UI 9 and older phones.

9 min read
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How to Transfer Photos from a Samsung Galaxy to a PC

Move photos from a Galaxy to a Windows PC or Mac by USB cable, File Explorer, Phone Link, Quick Share, Smart Switch or the cloud, with steps for each.

9 min read
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How to transfer photos from a Samsung Galaxy to a Mac

Move photos from a Galaxy to a Mac with OpenMTP, Smart Switch, Quick Share's AirDrop option or Google Photos, plus what to know about HEIF on macOS.

8 min read
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How to hide photos on a Samsung: Private album, Secure Folder and hidden albums

Hide photos on a Samsung Galaxy with the Private album, Secure Folder or Hide albums, what each one protects, and how to keep them out of cloud sync.

7 min read
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How to recover deleted photos on a Samsung Galaxy

Get deleted Galaxy photos back from Gallery's Trash (the old Recycle bin), Google Photos, OneDrive or a Smart Switch backup, and what can't be recovered.

8 min read

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