Current Events > Google Photos will begin Charging for photo storage after 15gb of use.

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Kombucha
05/27/21 11:33:12 PM
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Would you pay for Google One's cloud storage?




Google Photos has been one of Googles most popular services ever since it was launched in 2015. It has offered unlimited free photo storage at so-called high-quality. As was announced in November, however, thats coming to an end. In a week, on June 1, Google Photos will begin charging you for any storage over 15GB.

In other words, no matter what quality of photo or video you upload to Google Photos, it will count against your Google One storage plan, and if you exceed 15GB, youll need to pay up to keep uploading. To be clear, photos and videos uploaded before June 1 will not count against that 15GB limit only those uploaded after.

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https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-photos-will-start-charging-in-one-month/

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TheVipaGTS
05/27/21 11:34:38 PM
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who even has that many gigs of photos?

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Trumble
05/27/21 11:35:34 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
who even has that many gigs of photos?

Not that hard to reach if you aren't generally in the habit of clearing out old photos / videos.

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Kombucha
05/27/21 11:35:50 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
who even has that many gigs of photos?

I probably do, but I've been using digital cameras in some form since 2004ish.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
05/27/21 11:36:42 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
who even has that many gigs of photos?
I have five years worth of family photos. I'm way over that

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TheVipaGTS
05/27/21 11:42:32 PM
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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...
I have five years worth of family photos. I'm way over that
in that case i'd invest in a hard drive man. i wouldn't trust a google drive with those memories


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Kombucha
05/27/21 11:45:42 PM
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I already pay a Google One plan ($2/mo for 100GB) for Google Drive storage so I guess this isn't too consequential for me as it covers Google Photos as well. I think I probably lose track of more pocket change in a month than I pay for it.

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littlebro07
05/27/21 11:49:18 PM
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Kombucha posted...
To be clear, photos and videos uploaded before June 1 will not count against that 15GB limit only those uploaded after.

I have photos and videos all the way back to my first Android phone in 2010 and somehow have only used like 3GB lol

Think Im good

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
05/28/21 8:31:50 AM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
in that case i'd invest in a hard drive man. i wouldn't trust a google drive with those memories
I do have an external hdd that I back everything up to. Still paranoid about losing both the PC and hdd though at the same time

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Alucard188
05/28/21 8:43:25 AM
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I mean, back in the day you were paying much more than that to develop pictures, then store them in photo albums. It's a small price to pay to keep your photos in one location, but I would sooner just invest in an external hard drive or something. I would rather keep them local.

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Irony
05/28/21 8:45:13 AM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
who even has that many gigs of photos?
People that take pictures

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MrMallard
05/28/21 8:47:37 AM
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fucking lol. Try and charge me when you don't have my bank info, you stupid fucks.

I'll admit that I've liked Google Photos' functionality up to this point, but there's nothing stopping any of us from downloading a gallery app from the Play store if they start fucking with the functionality.

Tech companies have gimped music, and now they're gimping photos. Now's probably a good time to switch back to MP3s and third party apps that don't harvest your data.

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Irony
05/28/21 8:49:40 AM
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MrMallard posted...
fucking lol. Try and charge me when you don't have my bank info, you stupid fucks.
They'll probably just stop you from adding more pictures

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MrMallard
05/28/21 8:59:52 AM
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Irony posted...
They'll probably just stop you from adding more pictures
Yeah. Nothing stopping me from just downloading a new gallery app tho

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
05/28/21 9:02:11 AM
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This whole Google Photo thing is what make them lose me as a phone customer. (I love Pixels)

I was told I would have unlimited photo storage. Then they got rid of that. Now they are charging.

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_BIueMonk
05/28/21 9:04:03 AM
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i pay for 100gb already so i think im good.

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_BIueMonk
05/28/21 9:04:59 AM
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evidently i have 10gb of photos in google photos.

makes sense. they go back to 2008.

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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
05/28/21 9:06:58 AM
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I store all my photos/videos on my SD card so this doesn't really affect me. I don't really use cloud storage in general.

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Dark_SilverX
05/28/21 9:07:54 AM
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great news. kickin ass Google

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GoogleImages
05/28/21 9:09:50 AM
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Dark_SilverX posted...
great news. kickin ass Google
Thank you.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
05/28/21 9:10:27 AM
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GoogleImages posted...
Thank you.

HEY! Where's my free unlimited storage you promised?!

Also, I'm sorry I said mean things to you the other day. I know you're actually always listening and you know it.

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littlebro07
05/28/21 9:15:29 AM
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...
This whole Google Photo thing is what make them lose me as a phone customer. (I love Pixels)

I was told I would have unlimited photo storage. Then they got rid of that. Now they are charging.

Samsung always wins, baby

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GoogleImages
05/28/21 9:21:14 AM
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...
HEY! Where's my free unlimited storage you promised?!
I remember no such thing.

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_BIueMonk
05/28/21 9:24:08 AM
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littlebro07 posted...


Samsung always wins, baby
arent they killing their cloud service soon <_<

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littlebro07
05/28/21 9:26:03 AM
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_BIueMonk posted...
arent they killing their cloud service soon <_<

idk, I switched to iPhone this year lol


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Kombucha
05/28/21 10:51:04 AM
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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...
This whole Google Photo thing is what make them lose me as a phone customer. (I love Pixels)

I was told I would have unlimited photo storage. Then they got rid of that. Now they are charging.

I don't understand why Apple doesn't offer a 100GB option. They just offer a 50GB and 200GB option on the low end.

That said both are on par for pricing on the low end. Google One does open up additional premium editing features for Google Photos, which would be useful with the premium tier camera on Pixels but yeah, it's still a promise that wasn't kept on their end which sucks.

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GoogleImages
05/29/21 8:37:09 AM
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Just pay for the Google stuff, duh.

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awesome999
05/29/21 8:38:42 AM
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My dad has like a 512 gig hard drive full of old photos lmao
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AlleyViper620
05/29/21 8:47:02 AM
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Note that it's not just 15 GB of photos, it's that photos will start counting towards your 15GB of free storage for your Google account in general, so Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, etc. all count. I'm already at 7GB from those.

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