![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re inactive in one or more of these services for two years (24 months), Google may delete the content in the product(s) in which you’re inactive. #Google photos backup going away free#Google is also introducing a new policy for inactive accounts that breach their free 15 GB storage limit: Please note that existing files in your Google Drive of the aforementioned types will not count against your storage quota. Going forward (again, June 1, 2021), these will begin to count against your free 15GB storage quota or whatever limit you have if you’re already a Google One subscriber. Many people may not realize this, but in Google Drive, your Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard files have always been exempt from counting against your storage quota as they were Google file types and not uploaded, external files. They’re providing you with a tool that allows you to get an estimate on how long the 15GB of free storage that comes with your Google account will last before you’ll need to consider upgrading to a Google One subscription or deleting some older files. Whew! Having never advertised their service as free forever, storage limitations and congestion issues on their servers have probably been on their minds for quite some time internally. Google Photos has offered unlimited, free backup to more than a billion users since 2015 – that’s 4 trillion photos and videos in 5 years or 28 billion uploads per week. Beginning June 1, 2021, they will stop offering unlimited free backup for high-quality photo uploads in Google Photos and on the same date, Docs, Sheets, and Slides in Google Drive will be counted against your storage quota whereas they previously were not. Apparently, due to an increased demand for storage, given the popularity of their services, the golden age of free data storage with Google seems to be coming to an end. I’ve alluded to the fact that Google seems to be becoming as much paid as it is free nowadays and now we know why. When we first heard that Google was locking a popular Google Photos feature behind a Google One paywall and that they had revived their Premium Prints subscription service in Photos, we knew that something was going on. ![]()
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