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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by ggm »

speedgoose wrote: post #4

Tldr: low quality but unlimited storage is expensive, so it will go away in June. However everything uploaded before will not use space for some time. High quality storage has never been unlimited so no changes. A Google Photos storage policy update I would love to read is some guarantee that I can download a backup of my photos if my Google account gets blocked for some reasons.

> A Google Photos storage policy update I would love to read is some guarantee that I can download a backup of my photos if my Google account gets blocked for some reasons.

This doesn't exist. But you can schedule a year of e.g. 2 monthly incremental takeouts at takeout.google.com and stop-limit your dataloss scenario to a window.

btw: I think it should exist. I think google should clarify its 'we terminated you' process to include the takeout function for export of the data they currently hold hostage.

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by ISL »

speedgoose wrote: post #4

Tldr: low quality but unlimited storage is expensive, so it will go away in June. However everything uploaded before will not use space for some time. High quality storage has never been unlimited so no changes. A Google Photos storage policy update I would love to read is some guarantee that I can download a backup of my photos if my Google account gets blocked for some reasons.

The way to guarantee the latter is to make your own periodic backups.

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Post by pythonaut_16 »

th0ma5 wrote: post #7

Whatever... I just wish they actually let you manage your own content. I guess I could just download it all, but I certainly can't sort by size or really do just about anything useful in staying under the limits, so I feel really strong-armed into paying.

I was thinking the same thing.

Good thing they discontinued Picasa in favor of pushing everything into the cloud for Google Photos.

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Post by baskire »

TuringNYC wrote: post #9

Anyone know why the strange tiers on Google One? There is a 2TB ($100/yr) and 10TB ($600/yr). - Usually prices scale log, but here, there is a storage premium going from 2TB to 10TB. - Does anyone else think 2TB is a bit low for a moderately savvy family plan? Why isnt there a middle tier like 5TB?

Probs they expect a 2TiB plan user to never use a significant amount of the 2TiB. Whereas the 10TiB plan user is more likely to use a higher percentage of allotted storage.

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Post by mvgoogler »

th0ma5 wrote: post #7

Whatever... I just wish they actually let you manage your own content. I guess I could just download it all, but I certainly can't sort by size or really do just about anything useful in staying under the limits, so I feel really strong-armed into paying.

A new tool will launch on June 1 that will make it easier to manage quota usage. The goal is to make it easier to understand what is using quota and reduce the amount of quota that is used.

It will show things like your largest photos and low quality (blurry, dark, etc) photos that you can review and decide what to delete.

Re: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

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Post by hackily »

> If you have a Pixel 1-5, photos uploaded from that device won’t be impacted. Photos and videos uploaded in High quality from that device will continue to be exempt from this change, even after June 1, 2021.

All good things come to an end, but at least they still honor the promise they made with the Pixel phones.

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Post by jcomis »

I wonder if they will ever fix the problem when you actually do upgrade to google one, there is no way to make your old photos go from "high quality" to "full res" without bringing them on to a desktop device, uploading them a second time, and often getting duplicates.

I'm a paying customer and I can't even back up my old photos in full res that are on my device without a TON of work.

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