How to use Google Photos for free? Google Photos have discontinued its free, unlimited storage of high-quality photos. While the existing high-quality photos and videos have been exempted, and from now on all your photos will be counted under the 15GB default storage criteria. Starting today, the new high-quality photos and uncompressed original photos will be taken into user’s storage payable if higher than 15GB free limit.
But do not worry, in case you want to continue using Google Photos for free, there are a few tricks.
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Use Google Photos For FREE: Google Photos Free, How?
There are a few ways to continue using the Google Photos for free for long. The paid limit starts from 15GB, and what you can do is keep your storage space within the limit for a really long time if you follow the following tricks.
All you need to do is know the tricks to cut down on storage space.
Trick 1: Starting with changing photo quality from Original to High, you can save up an ample amount of free space. Go to settings, and change the quality from Original to High, and you can free up space by at least 40 percent.
Trick 2: Free up space by using the tool Deleting Unwanted Photos And Videos. You can find the option in the Manage Storage section in Google One. Get rid of the unnecessary pictures and videos to free up space as much as possible.
Trick 3: Review Tool. You can use the new review that will help you rid of unwanted or blurry pictures. The tool highlights the unnecessary pictures or videos which are either blurry or distorted, unwanted screenshots and large videos which take up a lot of space.
In case, you still are short of space, here are a few great Google Photos alternatives to choose from.
Google Photos Alternatives (Free): Top Google Photos Alternatives
Checkout the top Google Photos alternatives available, both free and paid.
Mega: Free 50GB Online Storage
An online storage option, the file hosting service is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. It offers 50 GB free storage space, one of the highest available in the market. It uses encryption for files where you can upload or download 1GB data every 6 hours.
DigiBoxx: Rs 300 for 100GB Storage
An Indian cloud storage platform, DigiBoxx offers 20GB of storage space for free. It comes with end-to-end encryption and supports Gmail integration. Paid plans are the cheapest. 100GB storage plan starts at Rs 30 per month, while the annual plan costs Rs 360 for 5TB storage.
Amazon Photos: Free With Prime Subscription
Amazon Photos is a good Google Photos alternative offering features as editing, sharing and also allows users to share with up to 5 family members. In case you already have a Prime subscription, this can be really handy for you.
Amazon Photos comes bundled with Amazon Prime membership, while non-prime Members will have to pay $1.99 (around Rs 150) per month for 100GB of storage.
Microsoft OneDrive: Free With Microsoft Services
Like Amazon, if you use any Microsoft services, you can use OneDrive to save photos online for free, a good alternative to Google Photos. You can also go for the paid version along with other Microsoft services.
100GB storage plan costs Rs 140 per month with no other Microsoft services. It is free till 5GB storage.
Icedrive: Free 10GB Space
A free online cloud storage platform, Icedrive offers next-generation cloud service to access, manage and update your data effortlessly from anywhere. It supports Twofish Encryption and everything is encrypted at the client-side with zero knowledge of your data.
You can store files up to 10 GB for free on Icedrive.
Apple iCloud, Apple One: Best For Apple Users, Ecosystem
If you are an Apple user, you can go for any of the iCloud plans or with the bundled subscription services called Apple One. iCloud storage plan starts at Rs 75 for 50GB, Rs 219 for 200GB and Rs 749 for 2TB storage.
Apple One Plan starts at Rs 195 per month for 50GB of iCloud storage and Rs 365 per month plan for 200GB storage.
Google Photos: The Paid Plans, Worth It?
Finally coming to the most popular platform, Google Photos will end the free storage from June 1. The free storage will be limited to 15GB. Google Photos paid plans start at 100GB for Rs 130 a month and for Rs 1,300 a year. There are other plans as well upto 2TB.
The 100GB plan lets you add family members and access to Google experts.
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