What is Google Photos for and is it really free?

Recently, the tech world has announced that Google Photos will stop syncing with Google Drive. But what is it? What kind of service is it and what is it for? So let's go pretty well.

In short …

Google Photos is a cloud service that allows you to save, edit, and share photos and videos. At no cost, the service can store an unlimited number of photos and videos with compression, or uncompressed high quality charges.

OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, Box or even Google Drive … Cloud services are on the market, but Google Photos not only impresses them by specializing in photos and videos, but also by being totally free.

You can edit your saved photos and videos directly on the service with the built-in editor and share them with your friends or family just as easily. In addition, all members can add content to shared albums, allowing you to gather all your family parties or trips to the same place, for example.

You can upload an unlimited number of photos and videos to Google Photos via the iOS and Android mobile app or the photos.google.com website without paying a penny for storage. Sounds too good to be true?

The truth is, but he has his "but". With free backups, your photos and videos are compressed, which reduces more or less the quality of your photos. You will not notice the difference between the original copy and the compressed copy in the quality of the image, even if you view them side by side. The difference, however, lies above all in the resolution.

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You can save your photos for free up to 16 megapixels and 1080p in Full HD. If you have a newer, higher quality smartphone, your shots are more likely to exceed those resolutions.

You can save up to 15GB for free, even in optimal quality, but once this capacity is exhausted, you will have to pay for a larger Google One storage. For 100 GB, you pay € 1.99 per month, respectively. € 19.99 per year. You can also find storage media of 200 GB, 2 TB, 10 TB, 20 TB and 30 TB, which you can share with your family.

Android One smartphones are an exception to these rules. For example, Google Pixel smartphones, but also Nokia and Motorola One or One Vision. Photos and videos downloaded from these smartphones will be included free of charge in the service, free from your repository within the free Google One repository.

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What's more to Google Photos is that by using Google, you're opening Google's door to your privacy. In fact, Google automatically analyzes your photos, looks for faces, animals, plants, inscriptions, places and landmarks to help you search for photos with the help of keywords.

Google still does not seem to use this data, but if it wished, it could improve the targeting of ads based on what a particular user takes and triggers. Finally, the conditions of use of the service are authorized by Google.

sourceGoogle