For those of you who partake in Google’s unlimited photo storage, we have some bad news.

On Thursday Google announced it will be removing its free ‘high quality’ photo storage offering from June 1, 2021. After that date, new uploads will begin counting towards users 15GB of free Google Account storage.

Thankfully, this only applies to new photos and videos that are uploaded at this quality. Google was careful to point out that anything uploaded prior to this date will not be impacted.

So you’ve still got about six months to go absolutely ham on the service.

At the present time, any photos uploaded at their original quality already count towards your 15GB storage cap. ‘High’ quality photos and video are compressed before being uploaded to Google Photos.

“Starting June 1, 2021, new photos and videos uploaded in High quality will begin counting towards your 15GB of Google Account storage,” the Google Photos Twitter account said.

“All your existing photos and videos backed up in High quality and any new content you back up in High quality before June 1, 2021 are exempt from this change and will not count toward your Google Account storage.”

Google Pixel users won’t be impacted(for now?)
There are some users who won’t be impacted by this change — anyone with a Google Pixel.

Pixel phones will be exempt from the cap, allowing them to continue uploading high-quality photos and videos without it counting towards their storage cap.

It’s worth noting that Google Pixel owners used to get an even better deal than offered no cap on original quality photos and videos.

Google Photos was a great free space but now they want to take it away after using it for years...It's a shame how companies just change their promises...

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