Hey you and welcome! My name is Mr. Berry, and in this whole video I'll let you know that my
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now before we go I'm going to leave you with a really good informative video
on some of the big changes that are happening within our google drive so let's watch that
SelmaTeacher7 Mr. Berry here. Today we're going to be looking into google photos and
some of the upcoming changes that google has for us now these changes affect the storage
within google photos but it also affects your google drive
and even in your Gmail so let's look at some of these changes you and i come on
our story begins back in may the 28th 2015 where within your google account back then google
released google photos and google photos was popular for giving users free unlimited storage
of photos up to 16 megapixels and high resolution videos as up to 1080p resolution now there is no
limit on how many images or videos you can actually upload so everything was free
and unlimited it was great and the service automatically would go in and analyze all of your
photos and videos identifying certain things such as who is in them visual features and subjects
this allowed the users to keep their videos and photos private yet allowed them to go in
and search by person item place or even date and for over five years users were uploading
images and videos in fact as of November 2020 over four trillion photos and videos have been uploaded
to the service but google has announced something they announced starting June the 1st 2021 all that
changes what used to be free unlimited is now going down to 15 gigabytes so again starting
June the 1st 2021 all new photos and videos that are uploaded will now count against that 15 gigs
of free google storage that you have that goes in with your google drive your google photos and your
google mail now all photos and videos that you backed up even in high quality before June the 1st
2021 do not count against that 15 gigs of limited storage now all photos and videos
that you backed up in high quality before June the 1st 2021 are exempt from this change
and will not count towards your google account storage so this includes all of your google photos
and your video content so the question is do you need to do something right now the answer
is no you can continue using google photos just as you've always done before but after June 1st 2021
google will reach out and send you reminders when you are approaching that 15 gigabyte limit
according to google most users will have years before they need to take any action
or before they get anywhere close to that 15 gigabyte limit now the next question is
well when will you reach that 15 gigabyte limit of storage and the good thing is that
google has created a personalized estimate that actually shows you how much time it will take
before you've actually reached those limits that estimate actually takes into account
how frequently you back up your photos your videos and other content to within your google account
now is there a way to actually check how much storage you have right now
inside your google account yes there is in fact I'm putting the link right here in front of me
so it'll be right there and I'll also have a link down in my description you click that and it opens
up to what's called google one storage now the google one will open up and you can actually go in
click on storage and actually shows you which items are taking up storage such as your
google drive your Gmail as well as your google photos now that's not the end to the changes
another feature that's actually coming up with google photos is an easy way to delete extra
or duplicated images or images that were maybe too dark or blurry so allow you to take those out
and those will not be counting against your storage of course that applies to the images
and videos that you upload after June the first twenty twenty one another question that comes
up is well what happens if I actually do use up 15 gigs of my storage what can i do now
well google is offering low-cost plans where a person can actually pay a few dollars
anywhere from a few dollars to more for extra storage now another thing that you can do too
is store only what you need in your google photos and you can store others within a thumb
drive or within machines that you actually have locally with you and the truth of the matter is
it really breaks my heart because I've been using google photos to store all of my images
and to store all of my videos from my family from my events everything else that goes on
basically gets stored in google photos so when they say the average user would take years
before they reach that 15 gig limit I'm looking at thinking wow I'll probably reach that limit within
a few months or so or maybe even sooner so the skinny part of this story is google photos won't
be free any longer once you reach that limit you do have some choices of perhaps taking out
other images and actually reclaiming some of that storage or you can go in and
buy the storage and upgrade to a larger storage for your google photos and videos hey if you do
have a question just leave it down there in the comments I'll try to get to it as soon as i can
and like i said this is a big change for google photos and it does break my heart
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and thank you again bye bye...