Cloud accounts · Google Photos
Can I add my Google Photos account to Storage Studio?
Short answer: Not right now. Google changed its rules for third-party apps in 2025, so Google Photos accounts can't be added at the moment. Use Google Takeout to download your library, then keep it on your external drive.
Not right now. Google changed its rules for third-party apps in 2025 and no longer lets apps like Storage Studio read a whole Google Photos library, so a Google Photos account can't be added at the moment.
To get your photos out of Google Photos, use Google Takeout: it packages your library as downloadable archives. Once downloaded, you can keep them on your external drive or move them with Storage Studio like any other folder. See moving a Google Photos library with Takeout.