Google Photos no longer offers free, unlimited photo and video uploads, with the controversial change to how backup counts against your account storage coming
Google Photos no longer offers free, unlimited photo and video uploads, with the controversial change to how backup counts against your account storage coming into effect today. Until now, Google had allowed an unlimited amount of photos and videos to be saved to Google Photos – at “High Quality” – without that taking up space in your free or paid storage. If you wanted to save the original quality media, that would count against the 15GB of free storage that comes with each Google account, but if you were fine with Google’s compression it was a cloud backup free-for-all. Problem was, Google decided that was unsustainable, and last year it confirmed that the free lunch was coming to an end. The deadline for the switchover is today. Existing content you’ve already uploaded to Google Photos will remain, under the old policy, but anything new you back up to the cloud will be counted against whatever free or paid storage you have.
