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Google Photos free storage quota ends on 1st June and here are the ways you can download all Google photos and videos.
Google Photos news: Google Photos has so far allowed you to store photos and videos on your smartphone without any extra cost under the unlimited High Quality storage policy. Starting today, Google is changing its terms of photo storage for every user. Users storing new photos and videos on the app from today will have to use their available quota of 15GB to keep them. And if they run out of space, they will either have to look at other services or pay to increase data storage on Google Drive. Existing High Quality images will be exempt from this new change Google offers 15GB of free storage to every account user, which is counted across Drive, Photos, Gmail, and more. Here's a quick look at Google One storage plans that include a quota for photos as well and how to download all photos from Google Photos and store it on your device.
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Google Drive or One offers varied storage plans, monthly, and yearly for users in India and other countries. You can get these plans by paying a minimal amount every month or sign up for long-term plans. While you get 15GB of free storage with every Google account, you can bump up space, depending on your budget and requirement.
| Price | Storage |
Rs 130/ month or Rs 1,300/ year | 100GB |
Rs 210/ month or Rs 2,100/ year | 200GB |
Rs 650/ month or Rs 6,500/ year | 2TB |
All the paid Google Drive monthly and yearly plans come with other features like access to Google experts, the option to add family members to the storage quota, and other member benefits.
How to change Google Drive/ One plan for your account
- Go to one.google.com/about/plans
- Sign in with your Google ID
- Select from the listed Google Drive plans
- Click on the amount, make payment
- Get cloud storage added to your Google account
You can download all photos and videos from Google photos across devices, including PC, Android mobile phone, iPhone, and mac. You can also transfer the photos to other services like Dropbox and save them on your PC, or a hard disk as well.
Most of you might not be aware, but Google gives you the option to download (or backup) photos and videos from Google Photos and export it to another service. This can be done using a tool called Google Takeout. How does this work?
Google Photos will take some time (possibly hours, depending on the file size) to create a copy of files from Google Photos. When that is done an email will be sent to your registered ID, with the 'Download your files' button. Click on it to download all your Google photos and videos. The button will be valid for at least seven days from the day the email was sent.
Use the app if you want to download individual or selected Google Photos on mobile phones instead of all. The Google Photos app lets you download photos and videos and store them locally on your mobile phone. Here are the steps on how to save photos from Google Photos on Android mobile phone and iPhone:
With the free storage quota ending this month, people can look at other services that offer storage. Here are some of the alternatives you can try:
Dropbox - Dropbox is another tried-and-tested platform for storage. The service even gives you a 2GB free storage quota to a single user with its basic plan. But if you need more, the only option is to pay for its premium plans that add to your storage space.
Microsoft OneDrive - OneDrive from Microsoft is better with its basic plan, offering 5GB free storage to its users. If you need more, sign up for its paid plans that start from Rs 140 for 100GB.
Before you get to downloading the photos from Google Photos and saving them on other services, make sure you backup and sync all the photos that you need. Because, without doing it, you might lose all the important photos you need. Here's how it works
Using these methods you have the chance to save all the photos from Google Photos before 1st June when the new photo storage restrictions come into effect for users across the globe.
On the Google Photos webpage, you'll see the storage information on the left pane. Google Photos app users can tap on the photo icon in the top right corner, select the 'Manage your Google Account' option and scroll down to 'Account Storage' to check the available storage.