From Gizmodo.com….
Big changes are coming to the way Google Photos stores your photos, and how much the company charges for storing your photos. If you’ve been taking advantage of Google’s free unlimited storage for pictures and videos in the cloud, that’s no longer going to be possible. Here’s what you need to know about what will be different starting June 1—and how to get ready ahead of time.
The changes mostly affect people using Google’s unlimited “high quality” photos and videos plan. For years, this plan has let users store an unlimited number of photos and videos in Google Photos without paying a dime, as long as they were OK with these files being resized down to a maximum of 16MP for photos and 1080p for video.
For a lot of people, that was a decent deal. Purists won’t like the downsizing of pictures and movies, but those 16MP and 1080p limits are as much as the majority of users are ever going to need for sharing with friends and posting to social media, especially if it means there is an unlimited amount of cloud storage in return. Or at least there was.
Compare this to the “original quality” photos and videos plan, where no resizing or compression takes place. If you’ve been storing your files this way, then you’ve been paying for some Google One storage, unless you’re still within the 15GB of room that Google gives you for free across Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos.
