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Google Photos, goodbye to unlimited space next year

One of the advantages of Google Photos, the service of the homonymous company that allows you to save our shots on the cloud, is precisely that of have unlimited space for a given quality of photographs. There are different qualities with which to save photos on the cloud and each corresponds to a payment plan. However, the excellent quality is free and unlimited, this means that the only price to pay (if we can say so) to use the service is that of have an account. But history is changing as the Big G's corporate policies have from poco decided that the unlimited and free backup service will no longer be available. Nowhere in the world. Yes, even in Italy. It is the same company to communicate it by email. Let's see the details together.

Google Photos will no longer be free and unlimited: only Pixel devices will be able to use the service completely free

A feature that gave us the Google suite that also allowed you to buy a smartphone with a smaller amount of memory. Why spend € 50-100 more for more internal storage? With Google Photos the device memory was always free and it cost nothing. But the company has decided to turn around. Here is the official press release.

We launched Google Photos more than five years ago, and since then, the service has become more than just an app for managing your photos - it's a place to go when you miss that special moment and want to relive it. Today, Google Photos contains more than 4.000 billion photos and videos, including yours, to which another 28 billion are added every week. To accommodate even more memories and ensure Google Photos will continue to function in the future, we are introducing a change to the storage policy.

Starting June 1, 2021, all new photos and videos backed up in high quality will count towards the 15GB free storage provided with your Google Account or any storage space that you have purchased, as is already the case for other Google services, such as Google Drive and Gmail.

And yet:

We do not take this decision lightly and we are aware that it is a big change: to help you deal with it, we wanted to inform you well in advance and provide you with all the necessary resources.

We appreciate that you have chosen Google Photos to store your memories securely. This change allows us to keep up with the growing demand for photo storage and to dedicate ourselves to supporting the Google Photos feature in the future as well.

From the official Google forum

IMPORTANT

Any photos and videos backed up in high quality before June 1, 2021 are excluded from this change and won't count towards your Google Account storage. All your existing content uploaded in high quality is included.

From the official Google forum

Ultimately goodbye to the most comfortable and convenient service we have. But does this talk apply to everyone? Obviously not: those who purchase a Google One account or a Pixel device are exempt from this limitation.

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Gianluca Cobucci
Gianluca Cobucci

Passionate about code, languages ​​and languages, man-machine interfaces. All that is technological evolution is of interest to me. I try to divulge my passion with the utmost clarity, relying on reliable sources and not "on the first pass".

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