Fight Google's data cap with a simple change to Google Photos

Until now, uploading photos on your Android phone has seemed like a perfectly good idea. But beginning in June, 2021, that decision is going to hit you right in the pocketbook, as Google begins to enforce its new storage policy. Blocking photos from uploading to Google Photos, as weird as it sounds, will eventually save you money.Let us explain. If you take a photo on an Android phone, it automatically uploads itself to the Google cloud, where it’s stored in perpetuity. Today, those photos are stored in what Google calls “high resolution”—something close to the original resolution you shot. (An exception applies to all Google Pixel phones, from the Pixel 1 to the Pixel 5, for which Google stores photos in the original resolution.)To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3605009/fight-googles-data-cap-with-a-simple-change-to-google-photos.html#tk.rss_all

Created 4y | Feb 4, 2021, 12:20:59 PM


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