Comment by fauigerzigerk
3 days ago
>You don't have to enable it, since Google backs up your photos to their servers by default.
When setting up a new phone (and many times thereafter) they prompt you to enable photos backup. It's not on by default if I remember correctly.
If you don't enable backup, Google Photos randomly reprompts on a regular basis with a "sure would be a shame if something happened to your photos!" modal. It's very easy to accidentally turn it on without noticing when this happens, if one has preemptively clicked where they expect a different UI element to be.
It is not enabled by default if we trust it. In fact, I am not even logged in to Google.