Xiaomi users can now directly backup photos and videos from their smartphones to Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage. Earlier, the default MIUI gallery app only supported cloud backup to Google Drive. The functionality has now been extended to OneDrive under Xiaomi’s partnership with Microsoft.
Since 2021, Google Photos backup count against the 15GB of free quota bundled with each Google account. The addition of OneDrive for automatic media backups will now provide extra storage to Xiaomi smartphone users.
How To Use OneDrive For Media Backup on Xiaomi Devices
The ability to backup photos to OneDrive from your phone’s gallery is being slowly rolled out in the latest MIUI updates. The feature will be available on all Xiaomi phones, including Redmi and POCO devices. Smartphones running on HyperOS are also eligible. Users will be required to stay signed in to their Xiaomi and Microsoft accounts on their respective smartphones.
- Open the Gallery app on your Xiaomi/Redmi/POCO device.
- Tap on the three dots icon and open Settings.
- Select the Microsoft OneDrive option in the backup section.
- Provide permissions to your Microsoft account to enable automatic backups from your phone.
Note that OneDrive only provides 5GB of free cloud storage with each Microsoft account. Currently, the company is offering a free trial of 100GB storage for a limited time to new users. In contrast, Google provides 15GB of free storage with every Google Account. Both services allow you to purchase additional storage starting with a minimum of 100GB.
Google Drive’s paid storage is priced at Rs 130/month for 100GB. Microsoft’s OneDrive will cost you Rs 149/month for the same 100GB capacity. Both companies also offer additional discounts on purchasing the annual plans.
Users can backup photos, videos, and all types of media files stored in their phone’s gallery to OneDrive. However, Google Photos is still ahead of OneDrive in areas like organizing your images, advanced search features, and more.
As a smartphone user, getting more options to backup the media on your phone is always a good option. If you are already an enterprise user of Microsoft OneDrive, then the new backup feature will definitely help you on your Xiaomi device.
