Use Google Photos? Unlimited storage goes away on June 1. Here are your other options
Big changes are coming soon to users of Google Photos.
On June 1, the service will drop unlimited storage for photos and videos. All uploads you add after June 1 will count toward the free 15 GB offered to every account.
But don’t rush to move your photos just yet: Current photos and videos already on Google Photos or added before June 1 will not count toward the 15GB limit.
The storage is not only for Photos, though. It’s shared among multiple Google services including Drive and Gmail.
You’ll get personalized estimates of how much storage you have left, and Google will add a tool to Photos to help you more easily manage images or videos to free up space.
Once you go beyond 15 GB, you’ll have to pay up. The tech giant’s Google One plans start at $1.99 a month for 100 GB, or you can pay $2.99 a month for 200 GB. There’s also a 2 TB plan for $9.99 monthly.
If this is all too much and you’d rather change services, you have several options, both in the cloud and offline.
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Amazon Photos
Price: Available as part of an Amazon Prime subscription, which costs $12.99 a month or $119 a year. It also includes access to Prime Video, Amazon Music, and free shipping on countless items.
What do you get? Amazon says you get unlimited photo storage at full resolution, as well as 5 GB of space for video. If you need more space for videos, users can choose plans starting at $1.99 a month for 100 GB. You can also have the service automatically back up photos or videos.
SanDisk offers a flash drive with Lightning connector to allow you to easily move photos between your smartphone and computer. There are also a variety of external hard drives that allow you to back up photos you have imported from your phone to the computer.
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