Free Unlimited Storage on Google Photos: From today you will have to pay Rs 130 for 100GB monthly, if you do not want to spend money, then create space on the cloud-like this

Posted on 1st Jun 2021 by rohit kumar

The free unlimited storage available on Google Photos will end from today. Simply put, now you have to lose your pocket for this. In December last year, the company said on its blog that before June 1, 2021, users should back up their high quality and express quality photos and videos. After that, they have to take a paid plan for this. That is, from June 1, users will not be able to upload or download such quality photos and videos on Google Photos.

 

Google Photos has launched 6 years ago on May 28, 2015. It was a photo sharing and storage service. Since then it was free for all users. That is, high-quality photos and videos could be uploaded on it. Now before buying storage, understand everything about it in question-and-answer format.

 

Question-1: What is Google Photos Service? Why is this important?

Answer: Google Photos is a cloud-based service. That is, whenever the user saves his smartphone's photos and videos in Google Photos, they go to the cloud. Cloud is a server where your data is backed up. You can also download data from here. This is necessary because you can do this work by logging in with your Gmail ID on any device in any corner of the world.

 

Question-2: How much free storage was available on Google Photos? How much will you get now?

Answer: Previously Google could store unlimited high-quality photos and videos on Photos, but now it will get only 15GB of space. This much space company gives free to all Gmail account users. That is, in this much space, you will have to store photos, videos, Gmail, files along other data. As soon as the storage is full, your files will stop uploading. Even online documents, such as sheets, will not work.

 

Question-3: What to do for paid service? What is the cost of this plan?

 

Answer: For paid storage of Google Photos, you have to go to one.google.com. Here you will see the details of all the plans. The 15GB plan is set by default, which is completely free. This is followed by Rs 130 per month and Rs 1300 for 100GB, Rs 210 per month for 200GB and Rs 2100 per year, Rs 650 per month for 2TB and Rs 6500 per year, Rs 3250 per month for 10TB, Rs 6500 per month for 20TB, 30TB For this, you have to take Google One plan of Rs 9750 per month.

 

Question-4: How to manage google cloud and create storage?

 

Answer: For those users who do not want to get paid plan for Google Photos, they need to manage their cloud storage. Storage of your Google Drive is part of Google Photos. In this case, you have to log in to drive.google.com first. Here you will see sub-categories under My Drive, Computers, Shared with Me, Recent, Start, and Trash. Delete all unnecessary data. Similarly, go to photos.google.com. The photos or videos you have saved will be visible. Remove those that are not necessary.

 

Keep these things in mind for storage

 

Gmail account is also linked to your Google Photos with Google Cloud Storage. In such a situation, remove non-essential mail such as spam, promotional, social, updates, trash.

 

The mail contains photos, videos, or files with other heavy attachments, then delete them after use. Keep cleaning the mail daily.

 

Eliminate blurry, duplicate photos with similar photos from Google Photos. Do not upload heavy files to Google Photos.

 

Google's sources of income

 

Google ranks among the largest tech companies in the world. This is the reason why he also has many sources to earn money. His biggest earning comes from advertising. It generated revenue of $ 162 billion in 2019 with the help of Google Ads and Advertising Services. Apart from this, the company also earns money from properties like Adsense Network, Play Store, Chromecast, Chromebooks, Android, Pixel Smartphone, Google Apps, Google Cloud Platform. From January to March 2018, he made an income of $ 730 million (about Rs 43,800 crore) with the help of ad sales.