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as of june 1st google photos no longer
offers free unlimited storage
so here's what to do now that google
photos is no longer free
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hey friends i'm tasia custodia and
welcome back to my youtube channel where
i share tech tips app reviews and a ton
of google tips and it finally
happened google photos is no longer
offering
free unlimited storage so
i'm going to walk you through in this
video what to do now that google photos
is no longer free the first thing you
need to know
is that this change from free unlimited
storage will not affect your current
photo
situation so what you have here on your
google photos
before june 1st will stay there
for you regardless of this new 15
gigabyte storage limit
and pixel users listen up if you have a
pixel phone you'll still have access to
google photos different file types and
everything
depending on the model of pixel you have
but for the rest of us there
are a few options to consider now when
it comes to google photos
and some of these options will depend on
how you use
google photos so first let's talk about
exactly
how to free up space with google photos
tip number one clear out blurry photos
or screenshots that you don't need
and wouldn't you know google photos has
this ability
easily right from the app from the
google's photo app
tap on your account icon then select
account storage
from here tap manage storage under
review and delete you'll see how much
storage certain files are taking up
so i've got about 93 megabytes taken up
by blurry photos
and 76 megabytes taken up by screenshots
which many i probably don't need to keep
so tap on whatever section you'd like to
clear out
and here tap select in the top right and
then select which photos you
want to delete now back in the
manage storage section you'll see how
much storage you have remaining
as well as some other suggestions here
at the bottom to clean up your gmail and
drive space since it all counts towards
your google storage limit
tip number two adjust your automatic
backup and sync
options now i will tell you right now i
am a big
fan of auto backing up from my device
straight to google photos but if you're
really worried about a space issue maybe
you want to do some housekeeping before
you reach that limit here
you might want to stop temporarily
automatically backing up
those photos and videos to google photos
so here's how
again tap on your profile picture and
this time
head to your google photos settings
now from here select backup and sync
right at the top you have the option to
toggle off the backup and sync option
altogether or if you look towards the
bottom of the section
you'll see here that there is an upload
size section
tap on this just to see what quality
you're uploading so
i've got mine set to slightly reduce
quality rather than
the original just in order to save space
in google photos tip number three
you could always back up your google
photos and then
delete the existing ones off of the
google photos app
now i know i know this is not exactly
ideal but hear me out
all right so the only reason i think
this may be useful
is let's say you have photos from years
and years and
years ago on your google photos
there might be an opportunity to move
those
over somewhere else maybe to another
cloud storage
device or hard drive but i cannot stress
this enough
if you decide to back up your google
photos to an external hard drive
please for the love of all things holy
make a backup of the backup always
remember two is as good as one and one
is as good as none
now with that said let's say you already
pay for a dropbox account so you
may not want to pay for multiple storage
solutions i totally get it
in that case you may consider backing up
all your google photos to dropbox and
then
deleting them from your google photos
account in order to save space there
but whatever backup option you choose
you can use google takeout to export an
entire copy of your content so from
takeout.google.com
once you're signed into your google
account deselect
all the options and then scroll down
to the google photos section and toggle
that
on you can even see a list of the file
formats that will be included
in the export now another important
point here
if you decide to back up and then delete
your existing photos from google photos
sure you'll free up your google photo
storage as well as your overall google
drive storage
but you're going to lose all that great
search functionality in google photos
so think there'll be no more memories
that pop up
to look back on certain dates there will
be no memories with specific people or
locations
google photos does such a great job with
this so it's really something to
consider
and tip number four well you could
actually just
upgrade your google storage and keep on
keeping on
there are actually a couple ways to do
this you can upgrade to google one
storage via the web
by clicking on your google profile pic
and then selecting manage
google account now from here scroll down
and you'll have an account
storage section where you're going to
have a snapshot of your current storage
situation
so what you can do is click on manage
storage in order to get a more detailed
breakdown
of what it is that's taking up your
space plus
you can upgrade your storage from here
too now i also want to point out you
might notice i have
17 gigabytes not 15 gigs the free
storage typically does cap
at 15 gigabytes i've got 17 because of a
promotion
with a linked google account from many
years back
but you can also upgrade directly from
your google photos
app so tap on your profile pic and then
select
account storage and from here
you can either manage your storage which
is what we just went over earlier
or you can buy 100 gigabytes for just a
dollar 99 a month
so this begs the question is google one
storage worth it
the short answer yes the long answer
i will be upgrading my storage and there
are a few reasons for this
number one it's still one of the
cheapest cloud storage solutions around
and y'all know i'm cheap number two i
have
years and years of my photos backed up
with google photos
so switching all that over now seems
daunting
and also i'd lose some of those features
i love
which brings me to number three i love
love
love how google photos sorts and
organizes my photos for me
based on the time of year and location
and people
they put together these like cute little
albums that create awesome little memory
banks for me
and it's so easily searchable that's a
huge win
and number four i love being able to
access my google photos from
my device or from the web no matter
where i am so you could always look into
alternatives to
google photos but when you think of the
1.99 us per month price tag
for 100 gigabytes across your drive
ecosystem
not just google photos it really can't
be beat
and now i want to hear from you what are
you gonna do now that google photos is
no longer free
will you upgrade your google one storage
let everyone know
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