According to information from Google, from June 1, all new photos and videos backed up in High Quality will count towards 15GB of free storage, which comes with a Google account or additional storage. Sung bought. Previously, only Original Quality photos counted towards storage. Once you’ve used up 15GB, you’ll have to delete some photos or other Google Drive content to free up space; or buy a Google One plan to increase your Google account’s storage up to 2TB. How will Google Photos users be affected by this new storage policy of Google? What happens to photos and videos backed up before June 1? The good news is that both High Quality and Original Quality backups before June 1, 2021 don’t count towards your Google account’s 15GB space. Memory for photos, videos Original quality has changed? Original quality photos and videos continue to count towards 15GB of free storage. Photos backed up in original quality and then compressed to high quality after June 1 will also count towards your Google account’s storage space. How much space do I have left on my Google account? You can use Google’s storage management tool to see how much free storage you have left, free up memory, delete blurry photos, screenshots. How much does a Google One plan upgrade cost? The price of the Google One plan varies by region. In Vietnam, the cheapest membership package costs from 45,000 VND/month or 450,000 VND/year. For this money, you get 100GB of storage, the option to add a family, additional membership benefits, and access to Google experts. The 200GB package costs 69,000 VND/month or 690,000 VND/year. The 2TB package costs 225,000 VND/month or 2,250,000 VND/year. What service is similar to Google Photos but free? There are other options if you don’t want to spend money to buy a Google Photos membership, such as Amazon Photos, Apple iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, Flickr. What offers are available to Pixel users? If you’re using a Google Pixel 5 or earlier, you’ll still get unlimited free photo and video storage. Pixel 3 users can upload unlimited original quality photos to Google Photos through January 31, 2022 before switching to the unlimited high-quality photo option. Pixel 2 users switched to unlimited high-quality photo downloads from January 16, 2021. Early Pixel users continue to get unlimited original quality photo downloads. Du Lam (According to Android Authority)

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. Users are forced to purchase additional Google photo storage. (Screenshots) Thus, after nearly 6 years of “trial”, the Google Photos photo storage service officially charges all users. Users who want more storage will have to buy more for 45,000 VND/month. Launched in 2015, Google Photos is Google’s photo and video sharing and storage service. Google Photos is rated as one of the photo hosting service the world’s best when allowing users to upload images and videos with unlimited storage space (images with reduced quality compared to the original image).

After a while of not updating, Google has added a list of collected data for all products released on the App Store, including the photo storage application Google Photos. Like Gmail, Chrome or Maps, Google Photos collects more data than apps of its kind, including Apple Photos. The data collection list is revealed as Google complies with Apple’s new rule, which requires all apps released on the App Store to list the types of data it collects, such as browsing history or location, including personal information. associated with the user’s identity (financial data, contacts…), serving personalized advertising. This list is called Privacy Label. Zing Summary of article translation by author Zak Doffman on Forbes about Google Photos collecting too much data on the iPhone. Google Photos collects many times more data than Apple Photos Looking at the Google Photos privacy label on the App Store, it’s not surprising that the app collects a lot of data, including seemingly unrelated information such as transaction history, phone numbers. … According to Google, the privacy label shows all the information that can be collected, but what data is actually recorded depends on the feature used. The Google Photos privacy label on the App Store reveals how much more data the browser collects than Apple Photos, which comes pre-installed on the iPhone. Photo: Forbes. “We will collect contact data if you want to share photos with others, or if you want to buy photo books, we will store credit card information, shopping data. They will not be collected if you don’t want to share photos or buy photo books,” explains Google. That’s Google’s description of how their photo-saving apps get contact information or transaction history. The company believes that iCloud is the storage platform behind Apple Photos, while Google Photos has its own storage and some special features. However, history shows that Apple and Google’s approach to privacy are very different. While Apple only collects data, receives revenue from the purchase and use of Apple products, Google’s revenue is largely based on personalized advertising, which appears on the majority of websites you visit on the Internet. . The closer the ad is displayed to the audience, the more money Google will collect based on the click. There are two main sections in the privacy label on the App Store, including “linked data” and “unlinked data”. Developers only use unaffiliated data to improve the service, track usage frequency or the location where it is most enabled. As for the linked data, they can use it to paint a “picture” of your interests and activities on the Internet. Compared to Apple Photos, Google Photos is a more complex application, so users can accept sending a lot of information to Google to use all functions. However, if you look at the Chrome browser, all the collected data is linked to the user’s identity. Finding the basic difference between Chrome and Safari or other browsers is not easy. Millions of Apple product users are using Google Photos, according to Forbes. Photo: 9to5Google. Various ways to get Google’s data Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google once affirmed that “do not use information in applications that mainly store personal data such as Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Photos for advertising purposes”. However, even if Photos doesn’t collect information for advertising purposes, Google’s advertising ecosystem is quite complex, and it doesn’t need to link directly to a person’s specific activity to target an audience. Google argues that Apple has its own advantages when it comes to collecting data from a variety of sources. Meanwhile, Google requires users of Apple and other platforms to create login accounts, which is like creating a repository of information about them similar to the Android platform. When you install Google Photos on your iPhone, you’ll get a notification that says “Google Photos needs to access all your photos” to view, share, and back up photos. However, from a privacy perspective, it’s an “all or nothing” question, users need to accept that data leaves Apple’s control to another company if they want to use the service normally. often. Google also confirmed the collection of EXIF ​​data in each photo. These are parameters related to the time, the exact location at which the photo was taken, including the device and camera settings. “We use EXIF ​​to improve in-app experiences, such as memories (Memories) or photo book recommendations based on recent travel,” Google said. Google also confirmed to collect EXIF ​​data in each image. Photo: Culf of Mac. Finally, your information may serve an advertisement, even if it is not mentioned directly. Facebook has admitted that even without permission to share location on smartphones, it can still collect this information based on EXIF ​​in uploaded photos. Over the past few years, the technology industry has had to pay more attention to customer privacy as many lawmakers become increasingly concerned about the misuse of user data. Google is facing at least three major antitrust lawsuits, including a landmark lawsuit initiated by the US Department of Justice and a complaint from a bipartisan coalition of states. While Google Photos has more features than Apple Photos or some other apps, understand the data trade-offs when you accept it. Everyone has the right to choose what services and data is collected. If you still use Google Photos despite reading the privacy label, that’s your decision. Why doesn’t Google want you to say ‘Go Google’? If Google is so widely used that it no longer defines what it is but is used as a generic term, they could lose the trademark.