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 4 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 in high quality before june the
first 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 are 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 1st 2021 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 something else to consider now is
that since these three services that is google drive gmail and photos are all using one storage
once that one storage fills up you won't be able to upload any new files to google drive
receive any new email or file attachments through your gmail
or synchronize new photos from your phone or other sources until you clear out some files or buy
more storage space and that is a very big change 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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