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Google Photos is going away soon — or at least, the useful free service we used to store years’ worth of photographs is finally getting hit with
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Google Photos is going away soon — or at least, the useful free service we used to store years’ worth of photographs is finally getting hit with
On stage during the annual Google IO developer conference, Anil Sabharwal, who conceived, built and launched the photo-organising app, promised that High Quality storage would offer “near-identical visual quality” when compared to your original photos. But Google has changed its tune. With more than four trillion photos uploaded to its servers, Google is changing tact. The Mountain View-based company is now sending out emails to existing Google Photos users to try to push them to move to “Original Quality” uploads. As the name suggests, these completely are uncompressed. But while the...
If you use Google Photos, you need to read this new quality warning. Users may lose their images if they dont convert back to original images
1 month ago For more than 5 years now Google has been encouraging users to store their photos on Google Drive in its proprietary High Quality compressed mode, which allowed them to upload an unlimited number of photos to Google Drive, and keep their phone storage available by deleting the originals. Google’s Anil Sabharwal promised that High Quality storage offered “near-identical visual quality” when compared to your original photos. With Google having a financial incentive to get users to use up their storage and hit their storage cap, High Quality storage is suddenly not good enough ...