The service, launched in 2015, allows users to easily upload, back up and sort through the thousands of images we fill our smartphones with.
Any images users upload beyond June 1, 2021 will count towards the 15GB limit imposed on Google accounts that already includes files from other services such as Gmail and Google Drive.After hitting that limit, Google Photos users will have to pay for extra space through the company's Google One cloud service, which starts at $2.49 for 100GB in Australia.
But the flood of users that flocked to Google Photos in the five years since it launched — more than a billion of them — may have reason to feel betrayed after counting on a feature that Google at least hinted would be around forever. "Google Photos gives you a single, private place to keep a lifetime of memories, and access them from any device," Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos' then-head, said in a
Google need to be brought down. I spent hours trying to find a way to speak to someone. Treat customers like pests.
It's still usable for free, they just begin to count toward the limit. Once you get close to the limit, download them all and put them on another service if you still want cloud backups (there's a bunch out there that give you a handful of gig for free).
I’ll just get an external hard drive !
Smart plan. Google already has access/ownership over the photos people voluntarily store with them, now people are going to pay Google to give up their private information. googleisskynet
then icloud?