The day has come: goodbye to unlimited free Google Photos storage

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The day has come: today, June 1, the free unlimited storage of Google Photos ends, so unless you have a Google Pixel or another exception, everything you upload to Google Photos will be deducted from your storage space, regardless of a what quality is

Given this perspective, there are those who prefer to pay, those who will move to an alternative and those who will wait to see how long the free space lasts. We summarize here everything that changes today in Google Photos, what will happen to your photos and on which mobiles you will continue to have unlimited storage.

What changes in Google Photos

Google Photos allows you to back up all your photos in two qualities: original quality or high quality, which compresses photos and limits the maximum size of photos and videos. What changes today is that all photos uploaded to Google Photos are deducted from Google shared storage. Until now, compressed high-quality photos did not take up space.

Google Photos maintains these two qualities in its settings, so you can continue to back up your photos in original quality or high quality. The difference is that the original-quality copy takes up more space, so you'll have less space on Google's shared storage.

Google offers 15 GB of free storage for accounts, but that is shared with Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos. Starting today, regardless of the backup quality you choose, all new photos you back up will also count against that 15GB.

What will happen to your photos

The good news is that all the photos that you already had in Google Photos before June 1 and that were at high quality, remain there and do not take up space. For this reason, yesterday was the last moment to take advantage and upload photos and videos so that they would stay forever in the account without taking up space.

your photos are safe

That is, your photos are safe in Google Photos, they will not be deleted and they will not disappear. Those that were at original quality will continue to be in original quality and will be deducted from the space. Those that were in high quality will continue to be in high quality and will not be deducted from the space. This, speaking of the photos that were already uploaded before today June 1.

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Therefore, you do not need to download and take your photos to another site, unless you are determined to start using an alternative. What was in Google Photos before today and in compressed quality, will stay there without disturbing or deducting from the total space.

How long will your free space last?

So, if from today everything you upload to Google Photos will be deducted from Google's shared storage, it is inevitable that sooner or later it will end up filling up. Google has done the calculation for you and you can see the estimate it has made, based on your usage patterns, by visiting this link.

The graph indicates what percentage of storage usage is used by Google Photos and the rest of Google services, calculating how long it will take before it is full. If until now you used the high quality backup, then for the moment the Google Photos section will appear almost empty and will fill up the more backups you make.

How much are Google One plans worth?

If the 15 GB that Google gives you falls short, you can buy more storage space from the application itself. Again, the space is shared between all Google services, so you can also take advantage of it for Google Drive or Gmail.

The plans come out at a better price with the annual plan

As of today, Google One has three plans starting at 1.99 euros per month or 19.99 euros per year. In addition to getting more storage space, you can share the plan with up to 5 people in your family and being subscribed to Google One means extra editing options in Google Photos. These are the available plans:

Which phones still have Unlimited Photos

The Google Pixel 5 is the latest phone to offer free storage (for a limited time)

Since the first Google Pixel, one of the exclusive advantages of buying the Google mobile is that it included exclusive advantages in the backup of Google Photos, although over time they have been limited and Google has already announced that new releases will no longer offer this type of addition.

Although Google Pixels initially had unlimited original quality storage forever, later models up to the Google Pixel 3 got it for a limited time and the latest releases only include the benefit of unlimited high-quality backup. . This is the summary of the mobiles that keep unlimited Google Photos:

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