The Google Camera app comes with a “save space” option to save additional space

The process of balancing your smartphone’s storage space is difficult, and with Google announcing that its image service will be limited next year, things will get more difficult, but, in the meantime, Google has added a new one. option in the camera application, the main task of which is to provide additional space on pixel phones.

Where with the release of the Google Camera 8.1 app, “Google Camera 8.1, and going to the app settings you will find the new option“ Storage Saver. ”You have enabled this option, it will reduce the quality of the image and video to reduce the storage space of your device.

Here, “RAW” images will be reduced and transformed into JPG image, videos will be stored in H.256 / HEVC format, and motion pictures will also be disabled. To activate them, you must deactivate the option, and the same goes for “4K” videos, as for time-lapse mode. And Slow Motion, you will continue to operate without change.

Also, there is an option to turn off storage backup when you have more than 1 GB of free space, and by clicking on the “Free space” item you will immediately be taken to the default files application for get rid of junk files.

Finally, this add-on in the Google Camera app is only available for the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G phones, however, it has been tested with the Pixel 3 phone without any issues, meaning the company has the intends to launch it later for all older Pixel models and of course, except for the first generation.

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