Google Photos will stop offering free compressed unlimited photo upload starting June 1, 2021. When Google Photos was launched more than 5 years ago, it has become the go to app for managing and storing photos.
Google photos has around 4 trillion photos and videos and 28 billion photos are uploaded every week. Google notified their users in an email that, to welcome even more of your memories and build Google Photos for the future, we are announcing a change to our storage policy.
Starting June 1, 2021, all new photos and videos backed up in High quality will count toward the free 15 GB of storage that comes with your Google Account or any additional storage you may have purchased, the same way other Google services like Google Drive and Gmail already do.
All photos and videos you back up in High quality before June 1, 2021 are exempt from this change and will not count toward your Google Account storage. This includes all of your existing content uploaded in High quality.
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We don’t take this decision lightly and we acknowledge that this is a big shift, so wanted to let you know well in advance and give you resources to help you navigate this change.
Google will reach out to users after June 1, 2021 and send reminders when they are nearing storage limit. Google will be launching a new storage management tool to help easily find dark blurry images and unwanted content and delete them.