Google Photos has rolled out a new tool to help you prune your photo library, ahead of its imminent policy change.
Google Photos has rolled out a new ‚blurry photos‘ tool in its smartphone app to help your prune your photo library, in preparation for its imminent move away from free unlimited storage. The big Google Photos policy change, which starts next week on June 1, will mean the cloud storage giant will no longer offer free, unlimited storage for ‚high quality‘ (or compressed) photos from that date, unless you own a Pixel phone from the Google Pixel 2 onwards. Don’t worry, it’s not quite time for panic stations yet – any existing ‚high quality‘ photos and videos you have are exempt from the change and won’t count towards the free 15GB storage that comes with a Google account. But with new ‚high quality‘ photos and uncompressed ‚Original‘ ones both counting towards your storage from June 1, it’s still a good time to give your account a spring clean. Fortunately, Google Photos has delivered a new weeding tool to help cut back the overgrown reeds in your library. In a new blog post, Google said „today, we’re starting to roll out a tool in the Photos app to help you easily manage the photos and videos you’ve backed up that count toward your storage quota“.
