After 7 months since the announcement to users, from today, June 1, 2021, Google Photos officially stops storing free photos and videos, uploaded files will be counted towards the default 15GB of Google’s space.
Illustration (Source: drupal.org) On June 1, 2021, the Google Photos photo storage service officially stopped storing free photos for users. Users will not be able to store their photos to Google Photos for free, whether storing in high quality or original photos will count towards Google’s default 15GB. All photos stored by users before June 1, 2021 will not apply this change, but only to photos saved after this date. After the specified date, the user will continue to upload images until the entire accompanying 15 GB is full, at which point the user will have to delete the image or purchase additional storage. On the other hand, Google will delete all files in the account when the user is inactive for 2 years. Along with that, Google has also changed the “High quality” image option to “Storage saver”. And of course, this new option will also count towards the user’s free 15GB and the quality of the Storage saver will not be the same as the original image. Pixel phone users will continue to get unlimited free photo and video backups on Google Photos, but for a certain period of time set by Google. At the same time, Google will provide a tool in June 2021 that will allow users to manage backed up photos and videos, the tool will automatically mark dark or blurry images, large videos that users may not be able to see. want to keep, then make a suggestion asking the user if they want to delete it. Google’s new policy will apply to all users Google Photos on all platforms including Android, iOS and desktop. 
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