We can look back at the “Photos” section and will find the cloud icon is now gone from the bottom right of the photos.

We see here that it says “Backup complete”, meaning all my photos and videos are now backed up in the cloud. If you have many photos or videos on the device, you will now see the backup progress at top of this “Assistant” screen. Our iPad photos and videos are now configured to backup to Google Photos. Click the arrow at top left to exit this screen. It will turn blue showing that it is now on. Now, click the grey slider button on the right of “Back up and sync”. We will see a notification that is telling us that “Back up and sync is off”.

We turn on backup and sync by either swiping from left to right on the screen, or by clicking the button at the bottom of the screen named “Assistant”.

This means those photos are not set to be backed up. If you have photos showing, you will notice the little cloud icon at the bottom right of each image and has a diagonal line through it. You should now see all of the device’s photos listed here. It now opens to the “Photos” section of the app.When finished, click the “Arrow” button at bottom right, and then the “Check Mark” button at bottom right. If you would like, take a moment to watch a few of the short demonstrations on how to use the app.Leave default setting of “High quality (free unlimited storage)”.Leave the default setting of on represented by the blue slider. Setup backing up the iPad’s photos and videos.Here you will sign in with your school district Google account.If prompted to leave notifications off, choose “Yes, leave off”. If you are prompted to allow the app to send you notifications, I recommend you click “Don’t Allow”. If you are prompted to allow Google Photos access to your photos, click “OK”.

You will find the app on, under the “Utilities” folder.

Google photos stuck backing up