{"id":13835,"date":"2020-11-12T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13835"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:23:31","slug":"changes-are-coming-to-google-photos-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/12\/changes-are-coming-to-google-photos-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes are coming to Google Photos storage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TL;DR<\/strong>: High quality storage will no longer be unlimited, but this won&#8217;t happen for a while; free storage remains a generous 15GB (more than enough for most people); and 100GB of storage costs two bucks a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Beginning June 1, any&nbsp;<strong>new<\/strong>&nbsp;photo or video uploaded in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/photos\/answer\/6220791\" target=\"_blank\">High quality<\/a>&nbsp;in Google Photos will count toward your free 15 GB storage quota or any additional storage you\u2019ve purchased as a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/one.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google One<\/a>&nbsp;member. To make this transition easier, we\u2019ll exempt all High quality photos and videos you back up before June 1. This includes all of the High quality photos and videos you currently store with Google Photos. Most people who back up in High quality should have years before they need to take action\u2014in fact, we estimate that 80 percent of you should have at least three years before you reach 15 GB. You can learn more about this change in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/photos\/storage-changes\/\">Google Photos post<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/original_images\/ExemptContent_1_n5L7q1T.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: High quality storage will no longer be unlimited, but this won&#8217;t happen for a while; free storage remains a generous 15GB (more than enough for most people); and 100GB of storage costs two bucks a month. Beginning June 1, any&nbsp;new&nbsp;photo or video uploaded in&nbsp;High quality&nbsp;in Google Photos will count toward your free 15 GB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}