Can Snapchat back up Memories to Google Photos automatically?

No. Memories stay on Snapchat's servers. The Save Button setting can send new Snaps to your camera roll, and Google Photos backs them up from there. Memories you already have need the export.

How do I move all my Snapchat Memories to Google Photos?

Request the free My Data export, download the ZIPs on a computer, write the date into each photo, then upload the memories folder on photos.google.com.

Why are my Snapchat Memories on the wrong date in Google Photos?

Photos in the export have no date saved inside, only on the file, and that date is lost when the file gets rewritten. The real date has to be written into the file before uploading.

Do I need Google Takeout?

No. Takeout exports from Google. To get Memories out of Snapchat, you use Snapchat's own My Data export.

Snapchat Memories to Google Photos, on the right date

Snapchat's export has no date inside the photos. Write the date into each file on a computer first, then upload the folder to Google Photos.

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Before: copied to the camera roll, the photo from the ZIP takes today's date, without its overlay. After: it goes back to 3 August 2019, in Biarritz, with its overlay.

Updated November 8, 2026 · Not affiliated with Snapchat.

By GetMemoriesOut. We wrote these guides from a real Snapchat export that we opened and counted, with Memories from 2016 to 2026. When something couldn't be checked, the guide says so.

All your Memories in 3 steps

Request the free export with the export guide, then download every ZIP on a computer.
Drop the ZIPs into GetMemoriesOut. You get a folder sorted by year (a single ZIP in Safari or Firefox), the date written in every file.
On photos.google.com, click Create and add photos, then Import photos, and pick the files from the folder.

A folder sorted by GetMemoriesOut: one folder per year from 2016 to 2025, then a folder per month, each file named after its date and time. — A demo export after sorting: 2019, then August, each file named after its date.

The recap is free, and the whole library costs €9.90, once. Your files never leave your computer.The recap is free, and the whole library costs $9.99, once. Your files never leave your computer.

A few Memories: from the app to your phone

In Memories, press and hold a Snap, or tap the selector icon to pick several.
Tap Export and save them to your camera roll or gallery.
If Google Photos backs up your phone, they go up with the rest. On Android, turn on the folder under Photos settings › Backup › Back up device folders.

A Memory saved this way often takes the day you saved it, so a photo from 2017 lands next to today's photos.

For new Snaps, set the Save Button to Memories & Camera Roll in Snapchat's settings. Each new Snap then also lands in your camera roll, and Google Photos backs it up.

Memories you already have don't move. The camera roll guide shows the full path.

Uploading the export, and its limits

To upload a whole folder, Google Photos offers Back up folders, in Chrome or Edge only. Otherwise, use Import photos on photos.google.com.

Google Photos takes photos up to 200 MB and videos up to 10 GB, according to its help (read on October 12, 2026). No Memory in the export we opened came close.

Google Drive for desktop stopped backing up to Google Photos on August 10, 2026, so that route is gone.

Write the date into the files before uploading

The photos in a Snapchat export carry their date only on the file, with nothing saved inside. Google's help doesn't say what date Google Photos gives such a photo.

Copy or unzip the files in a way that rewrites them, and the date on the file becomes today's. Videos are safer: they have a date inside.

The real date and time of each Memory is in the list of your Memories, a file in the export's json folder. For a few photos, the date guide shows how to write it in by hand.

For years of Memories, GetMemoriesOut does it on your computer, adds the location when Snapchat knows it and sorts them into a folder by year.

Already uploaded, and everything is on today's date?

On photos.google.com, select the photos, then use Edit date & time. With several selected, Set one date & time gives them all the same date, and Shift dates & times moves them all by the same amount.

Neither one can give each Memory its own date.

For hundreds of Memories, it's faster to delete the batch and upload it again with the dates written in. Deleted items go to the trash first: empty it to get the space back.

Storage: the 15 GB is shared

A Google account has 15 GB of free storage, shared between Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos. Photos uploaded in Original quality or in Storage saver both count toward it.

An export covering several years can weigh tens of GB, chats included. Check the size of your memories folder before uploading everything, and see the large export guide if it's big.

FAQ

Can Snapchat back up Memories to Google Photos automatically?: No. Memories stay on Snapchat's servers. The Save Button setting can send new Snaps to your camera roll, and Google Photos backs them up from there. Memories you already have need the export.
How do I move all my Snapchat Memories to Google Photos?: Request the free My Data export, download the ZIPs on a computer, write the date into each photo, then upload the memories folder on photos.google.com.
Why are my Snapchat Memories on the wrong date in Google Photos?: Photos in the export have no date saved inside, only on the file, and that date is lost when the file gets rewritten. The real date has to be written into the file before uploading.
Do I need Google Takeout?: No. Takeout exports from Google. To get Memories out of Snapchat, you use Snapchat's own My Data export.