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Google Photos free storage has ended - here'south what you need to do

If you lot want to keep bankroll up photos and videos to Google Photos from your telephone - or anywhere - you'll need to take action: here are your options

Gratis High Quality storage is no longer available

By | 01 Jun 2021

It feels like Google Photos has existed a whole lot longer than the v years information technology'south been around. By 2019 the service had attracted over 1 billion users, meaning that Google's recent decision to end providing free unlimited storage is a huge blow to, well, more than than a billion people.

Equally of 1 June 2021 whatever photos or videos you upload, or which are uploaded automatically by the app, will count against your 15GB of Google storage, or however much storage you have with your Google account.

Merely Google's own phones - the Pixel 2 through to 5 - will be exempt from the new rules. If you ain one, here's what happens now:

Pixel 3a, 4, 4a, five: You lot'll nonetheless have unlimited 'Storage saver' uploads, but not Original quality.
Pixel 3: Unlimited costless Original quality photos until 1 January 2022. Later on that, unlimited Storage saver uploads.
Pixel ii: Unlimited Storage saver uploads.
Original Pixel (2016): Unlimited Original quality uploads until your phone stops working.

For everyone else, you get to keep your uploaded photos and videos, but anything uploaded on or after 1 June volition count against your Google storage.

Google Photos won't delete your photos

Technically, you don't need to practice anything differently now considering photos and videos you take on your phone will nevertheless exist uploaded to Google Photos equally normal, even subsequently 1 June. Merely uploads (backups) will stop when your Google storage is full.

This means those images and videos will stay on your phone and won't be backed up in the cloud. That may be ok with you lot, and information technology doesn't mean you can't view those photos in the Google Photos app on your phone and benefit from all the great features such as automatic tagging, the subject area-based search (such as "cats" or "cars") and the automatic creations such every bit animations and videos.

Bated from the fact you no longer have an online fill-in of your photos and videos, you won't be able to access them in Google Photos from whatever other device.

I dearest being able to quickly find a photo in web browser version of Google Photos, but once your storage is total, the web version won't update with new photos and videos.

What'due south Storage saver?

Google has changed the name of 'High quality' uploads to 'Storage saver'.

This is a tacit access that this option, which compresses photos and videos and doesn't store the original-quality files (except for photos 16Mp or under), isn't really high quality at all. So y'all may want to rethink your options and start uploading at Original quality.

If you don't want to pay for Google One storage - see below - then here are the all-time alternatives to Google Photos.

How tin can I costless upwards Google Photos storage space?

You tin can clear out large files taking up infinite in your Google storage. But this is just a temporary gear up as that infinite volition fill up again with photos and videos sooner or later.

Google is also rolling out a tool that identifies blurry, dark photos and large videos and then yous tin cull which ones to delete to free up space.

Don't forget, though, that your 15GB of free storage is used past Gmail and Google Drive also as Google Photos, so you'll need to keep some storage costless if you lot want to go on receiving emails and creating new Google Docs or uploading files.

You'll have received an email most the change and in it is a link to a personalised estimate of when your free storage will fill, and then information technology could exist months or years depending upon how many photos and videos you lot have.

If you missed it, open up the Google Photos app and look in the Manage storage section (under Backup & sync) to see the same estimate.

What to do when Google photos free storage ends

Go more Google Photos storage with Google One

Ultimately, if you want to go along backing up to Google Photos you'll have to pay. This isn't as expensive as you might fearfulness. The service is called Google One - a sort of combined storage and VPN service.

Upgrading to 100GB is less than £2/$two per calendar month and y'all can have up to 2TB if you demand it. Check out our full guide to Google One for more than on the costs and benefits of the service.

If you do add together more storage to Google Photos, this is a smashing alibi to make certainall of your photos and videos are backed upwardly in that location, so make sure to cheque out how to upload every photograph & video you accept.

What other options do I have to back up photos and videos from my camera roll?

If you adopt, you tin can sign up to 1 of the best cloud storage services which may offer even more storage or – better yet – a lifetime plan which means you pay once for a fix amount of storage and there'south then no subscription fee to pay afterward that.

An example is pCloud which offers 500GB for a ane-off payment of £175 or 2TB for £350. Both are 65% discounts on the normal prices.

The pCloud app for Android and iOS offers automatic backups of your camera roll too, so you won't take to do annihilation – just similar Google Photos.

Obviously y'all lose the great features of Google Photos mentioned earlier - plus the photos and video editing tools. Which is why you might adopt to pay for Google One storage instead.

Unfortunately, there are no costless services which are equivalent alternatives to Google Photos. If you accept a NAS bulldoze, you tin probably apply it to dorsum upwardly your camera roll. Equally for online services, iCloud isn't free and neither is Flickr (which now limits gratuitous users to m photos).

For more than details on those, see our roundup of the best alternatives to Google Photos.

If you lot decide to motion to a new storage solution, don't worry - there'southward an easy way to download all your photos and videos from Google Photos in 1 become, so that yous can re-upload them to your new backup.

We discussed the changes in our weekly podcast Fast Charge, which you tin watch right here: