How to Fix Videos Won’t Play In Google Photos

  • Restart your android device and enable and disable airplane mode and check if there are any wifi internet connectivity issues and check video format.
  • Clear Cache and clear storage of Google photos app and free up google photos and device storage space by deleting unwanted or older or unwanted videos, photos etc.
  • Update google photos app to latest version and reinstall google photos app will fix videos not playing on google photos app issue.

When you are trying to play videos on google photos and you are getting to see an error message can’t play video or won’t load or google photo application on Android device on any mobile like mi, oneplus, vivo, samsung or any other android mobile and google photos processing video and cant play video on Google Photos then you can fix this issue of video won’t play in Google photos easily. So, let’s see in detail below.

Fix Videos Won't Play In Google Photos

Videos Won’t Play In Google Photos

Google photos says can’t play video issues can be fixed and play videos on google photos.

Restart Your Device

If google photos wont play videos then you need to restart your android device – press and hold power button and wait until you see logo and release power button and wait for your device to restart.

Once your device restarts then go ahead and play video in google photos and cant play video on google photos issue will be resolved and google photos will start playing videos.

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Free Up Space on Google Photos

If you are running out of storage and there is no insufficient storage on your Google Photos app then google play will not play video and you need to delete unnecessary data and free up space..

  • Open Photos app on your Device
  • Sign in to your Google Account
  • Tap on Profile photo and free up space and delete unwanted videos from Google photos app.

Once you delete unnecessary videos, photos, and documents then play videos on google photos app and video will play on google photos app.

Delete Unnecessary Data And Free Up Space on Android Device

  • Open Files app on Android Device.
  • Delete unwanted data and delete old videos and free up internal storage on android devices.

Once you delete old videos and unwanted data then go ahead and play video on google photos app.

Turn on Airplane Mode and Turn OFF

If you are having any wifi internet connection problem and you are not connected to the internet then you will get an error and can’t play video in Google photos.

  • Swipe from top to bottom and tap on Airplane mode and turn it ON.
  • Wait for 30 to 40 seconds and turn off airplane mode.
  • Now, go ahead and play videos on google play and google photos will play videos.

That’s it, Once you disable and enable airplay mode then your issue of google play not playing videos on google photos will be fixed.

Change Google Photos App Settings

You need to change google photos app settings and enable background data and clear storage and clear cache of photos app.

Enable Background Data of Photos App

  • Open Settings
  • Scroll down and Tap on Apps
  • Tap on Photos
  • Tap on Mobile Data and Wifi
  • Enable background data by toggling the button next to it.

Once you enable background data of photos app then go ahead and open google photos app play video in Google photos.

Clear Cache and Storage of Google Photos App

  • Tap on Settings -> Tap on Apps
  • Tap on Photos -> Tap on Storage and Cache
  • Tap on Clear Cache and tap on Manage Storage and tap on Delete.

Once you delete cache and clear storage then google photo app all data will be deleted and your issue of google photo app not playing videos or can’t play video issue will be resolved.

Update Google Photos App

  • Open Google Play store App and search for google photos app
  • Tap on Update and wait for the Google photos app to update.

Once you update google photos app then play google photos app and play video can’t play video issue will be fixed and google photo app will play video on google photos. 

Why Are My Videos Not Playing on Google Photos

If you are running out of storage or your google photos app is full or If you are running older version of google photos app of google photos app or outdated version of Google Photos app then you will see issue with google photos app not playing video or cant play video.

Google Photos Can’t Play Video Android

Uninstall google photos app and reinstall photos app from google play store and delete unwanted data and videos and free up storage space from Google photos app and delete free up internal storage space on your android device.

Error loading video Google Photos

If you are running out of storage space on your android device or if your google photos app is full and doest have enough free space then video will not load and you will get to see error loading video in Google photos app.

Google Photos Video Not Playing

Update google photos app and free up internal storage space and clear cache and clear all data of google photos app and then try to play video in google photos app.

Vangari Divya
Vangari Divya
Divya is Content Writer and Author and also Reviews Technology Related Articles and Editorial Expert Team Member at A Savvy Web for more than 5 years. She has a Degree in Bachelor of Technology (Btech) and Master of Technology (Mtech) From Kakatiya University. She has an Expertise in Providing Troubleshooting tips and fixes (solutions) and how to articles and helps to solve issues on Technology Related subjects like iPhone, Android, iOS, Windows, All Smart tv’s and other tech related information.

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