Saving Photos from MMS Messages on Android Phone is quite easy when you have just received the message or you know which message the photo is located in. However, it can become tedious in case you need to go through long message threads in order to find a particular image or when you cannot recall in which message the image is located.

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Below you will find the steps to save photos from MMS Messages on your Android Phone, both when you know the message in which the image is located and also when you do not know where that particular image is located among hundreds of text messages on your phone.

The Files by Google app is one of the best file manager apps for Android users. Screenshots by Jason Cipriani/CNET If you don't like the default file manager app on your Android phone, or it doesn. For Android phone users, Google Photos is a good tool to backup pictures so most of them know how to upload images from Android phone to Google Photos. However, getting the way to download Google Photos to Android or computer is also important or you will be unable to view and manage them.

Save Photos From MMS Message on Android Phone

If you have just received a photo via an MMS text message and you wish to save it, you can easily do so on your Android Phone by following the steps below.

1. Tap on the Messenger app and open the MMS message thread that contains the photo.

2. Tap and hold on the Photo until you see a menu at the top of your screen.

3. From the menu, tap on the Save attachment icon (See image above).

4. The photo will be saved to Album named “Messenger”

You can easily access the saved image from Messenger Album by following the steps below.

1. Tap on the Photos App

2. Tap on Albums from the bottom of your screen

3. Next, tap on Device Folders

4. Browse through the Albums in Device Folders to locate Messenger Album, here you will find photos saved from text messages.

Save Photos Attached to All MMS Messages On Android Phone

Saving all photos attached to all your text messages can be useful in case you are trying to find a photo from tons of text messages.

Instead of going through all your text messages from everyone or going through long messaging threads you can make use of Apps like ‘Save MMS’ or ‘Save MMS Attachments’ to scan for images attached to text messages on your phone.

These apps will then save the images either on the Phone or its external storage device, so that you can take a look at all the photos and find the one that you are interested in.

Extract All Photos From MMS Messages Using ‘Save MMS’ App.

1. Download and Install Save MMS app from Google Play Store to your Android Phone

2. Run the app, it will extract all attachments (pictures, videos) from MMS text messages on your phone

3. Scroll through the list of images and find the particular image that you are interested in.

4. Simply tap on the Photo – You will see the option to name the image file and save it to an SD card.

The saved image will be available in a folder named “SavedMMS” on your SD card attached to your phone. Accessing the saved image is as simple as navigating to sdcardsavedmms.

Extract Photos From MMS Messages Using ‘Save MMS Attachment’ App.

This is another good app that can be used to extract images from all your text messages.

1. Download and Install the free version of Save MMS attachments on your Android device.

2. Open the app, and it will show you all the available images attached to your text messages.

3. Tap on the Save icon located at the bottom-right corner of your screen to save all images.

The saved images will be available in your Gallery, located in a folder named ‘Save MMS’.

I have uploaded photos to Google Photos. Now I would like to download these pictures from Google photos to my new Android phone. But Google Photos only allow me to download one photo at a time. How to download all photos from Google Photos at once?

Google Photos works great in backing up photos to cloud storage and syncing them over all devices, while it neglects users' need to download photos, especially all photos, from the service. When you need to download photos from Google Photos to PC, Mac, iPhone or transfer pictures from Google Photos to gallery, you can follow these tips.

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How to Download All Photos from Google Photos to PC/Mac

Select All Photos and Download from Google Photos

Step 1 On your PC or Mac, open photos.google.com in the browser.

Step 2 Select the photos you want to transfer from Google Photos to the computer. Choose Download.

Step 3 Since there is no select all option on Google Photos, to select all photos to download:

• Select the first photo on Google Photos;

• Keep holding Shift key and scroll down to the last photo;

• Click the last photo to select all photos.

• Click three dot icon in the top right corner and choose Download.

Google Takeout to Save All Photos to Computer

Google Takeout allows you to download all files/photos from Google Drive, Google Photos, etc. to PC, Mac or other devices.

Step 1 Open Google Takeout in Google Chrome.

Step 2 Select the Google service that you download photos from. To download all photos from Google Photos, choose Google Photos. Click Next.

Step 3 You can choose the file type, size to save the Google photos and how you would like to receive the photos.

Step 4 An archive of photos from your Google Photos will be created. Click Download to save all the photos from Google Photos to your computer.

How to Restore Pictures from Google Photos to Phone

Save Picture from Google Photos to Device

Google Photos app has Save to device option for us to move pictures from Google Photos to Gallery, but only one photo at a time.

Step 1 Open Google Photos on your phone. Select the photo you want to download to Gallery.

Step 2 Tap the three dot icon on the top and select Save to the device. The picture will be downloaded to Gallery.

Download All/Multiple Photos From Google Photos with Google Drive

If you want to download all photos from Google Photos to phone, you can make use of Google Drive.

Step 1 Open Google Drive and choose Google Photos.

Step 2 Select the pictures that you want to get from Google Photos. To select all pictures in Google Photos, tap three dots icon > Select All.

Step 3 Tap Download icon to download the picture to your device.

If you don't use Google Drive, you can also restore all your photos backed up to Google Photo to device in these steps.

• Use Google Takeout to download photos on your PC;

• Transfer the photos from PC to Android/iPhone.

Google Photos is Confusing? Try A Simpler Backup Method

It is important to back up precious photos, videos on the Android phone. However, Google Photos can be very confusing:

• It doesn't provide a straight-forward to restore photos from the Google backup;

• Google Photos sometimes can't upload, sync, backup our photos for unknown reasons;

• Photos disappear from Google Photos from time to time because of software bugs.

Instead of backing up your photos to unstable and complicated Google Photos, why not switch to a more straight-forward method: backing up the photos to PC? And other than coping all photos to PC, which will occupy much storage of your computer, FonePaw Android Data Backup & Restore can save all your Android photos/videos in a small-sized backup file to the computer. It is easy to back up and restore.

Download Android Data Backup & Restore on PC.

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Step 1 Launch the program and connect your Android phone to PC with USB cable.

Step 2 Click Device Data Backup and choose to back up photos, videos only. Tick Encrypted backup to encrypt the backup. Click Start. A backup file will be saved in a chosen folder.

Step 3 When you need to restore the photos to Android device:

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• Connect your phone;

• Choose Device Data Restore;

• Select the backup of your Android photos. Click Start. (If you have encrypted the backup, you'll need to enter the password)

• Preview the backed up photos. And select the photos you want to restore, click Restore.

Backing up photos to PC is much simpler than backing up the photos to Google. What do you think? Leave your comment below.

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