so if you haven't heard yet google photos storage is changing starting on june 1st
next year 2021 any new photos and videos you upload will count towards the free 15
gigabytes of storage that comes with every google account but wait don't freak out in today's video
we're going to go over what this means and also a few recommendations to maintaining your google
photos we're also going to recommend a few alternatives for those who want to jump ship
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so if you don't know already your google account storage is shared with drive gmail and photos so
the news is basically any photo you've uploaded from now until next june first you will be able to
keep inside of your google photos account anything after that is part of your google one account
storage limits so there's a few things you can do from this the first is checking an estimate
of how much photo storage you have been using there's a little feature which will help tell you
how much space you will take up with your google one account this is quite helpful to determine
whether you need a pay plan or not google actually say that eighty percent of people will be able to
still use google photos for three more years worth of memories with that free 15 gigabytes of storage
so that's a little bit of a mind rest for a lot of people the second thing you can do is use the
clean abilities now you're probably wondering what are these tools these tools help you to
review the memories you have and help you delete them and there's also recommendations like dark
and blurry photos or large videos to help remove large amounts of storage and the third thing you
can do is actually buy a google pixel now if you actually have a google pixel from one to five
any photos uploaded from those devices are actually exempt if you upload in high quality
from those devices you'll be able to continue even past june 1st 2021 so the actual storage limits
don't matter to you so that is actually one of the options of course if you do not want to do any of
these for hassle reasons or you'd like to continue to use google photos and appreciate the service
there is a hundred gigabyte storage plan which should do you well with 1.99 per month being the
fee now you if you wanted to pay annually it's 19.99 and for all of the features that google
photos offer it's not a bad bet but i can imagine a lot of you going oh i'm really angry let me move
all of my photos or maybe even continue to upload any new photos from june 1st on another platform
amazon prime actually offers something called amazon photos as part of the subscription package
you can actually upload any unlimited photos in full resolution with up to
five family members in a vault so this is perfect if you want to continue your plan
and i guess get what you had with google photos before with amazon if you are looking for a paid
solution flickr actually offers if you don't remember flick it's a photo sharing application
it has a subscription service called flickr pro at 60 bucks a year you can upload as limited photos
as many as you like across a year dropbox plus actually have a plan after they're two gigabytes
free called the plus plan which is 119.98 per year but offers you secure ways to upload your photos
through camera uploads which is something they offer through their app so if you want a reliable
name dropbox is a pretty decent bet but as you can imagine if you're someone that's already
using google photos pretty lightly but to securely your photos then this is going to continue and do
remember they'll uphold their commitment not to use information in google photos for advertising
purposes so big news from google photos but calm down guys it's gonna be okay you can still use
google photos onwards just remember it from june 1st next year it will go towards your google one
limits so hopefully that calmed you down and gave you a few alternative if you are new here
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