Free Unlimited Google Photos Storage?

[keri2000]

Is this a deal because I got the note 8? I've been paying 1.99 per month for Google drive storage but if I get free Unlimited photos I don't want to pay but I can't quite figure out how to activate it.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Google Photos has a free upload built into the app. As long as you leave the quality set to default, all pictures uploaded don't count against your Drive storage.

 

[Brew Swayne]

I'm not aware of any offer like that for the Note 8. I do believe that is an offer for the Pixel though. Do you have a Pixel phone tied to the same email addy? That could be why you're getting that notification.

 

[Brew Swayne]

Google Photos has a free upload built into the app. As long as you leave the quality set to default, all pictures uploaded don't count against your Drive storage.

That's probably a better answer than mine. Lol. I've never seen that notification though...probably because I have sync turned off for Photos and I think I turned off notifications for that app as well.

 

[Golfdriver97]

That's probably a better answer than mine. Lol. I've never seen that notification though...probably because I have sync turned off for Photos and I think I turned off notifications for that app as well.

It might be the one that goes off when you first open the app.

 

[anon(5719825)]

I remember seeing that offer on my Note 8 but I don't use the Google Photos app. I use the Samsung Gallery app.

 

[km04]

What does the fine print on this offer say? Google probably screws you out of your copyrights. Probably something in there about them getting to use your pics for free.

 

[krishnansasikumar]

Go to Backup & Sync on photos and choose High Quality. That's set by default in any case. That'll give you unlimited storage.

 

[L0n3N1nja]

Unless I'm mistaken any phone can have unlimited photo back up with default quality. Issue is it compresses and reduces the overall size and quality of the image. I don't use it because I want to maintain the original quality of the photos.

Personally I don't rely on cloud for photos, I have it set to back up at max quality which uses my drive storage, but delete them monthly as I move the files from my phone to my PC, then duplicate them on 2 external hard drives that I store in 2 different locations.

 

[PainFX]

May I ask, if I had already set it at Free Unlimited High Quality, does any know what is the resolution it is saving it as?

Also if I switch over to Original Quality that uses up the storage space, will ALL of my pics become original quality? Or how do I upload it back to original quality?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Golfdriver97]

May I ask, if I had already set it at Free Unlimited High Quality, does any know what is the resolution it is saving it as?

Also if I switch over to Original Quality that uses up the storage space, will ALL of my pics become original quality? Or how do I upload it back to original quality?

Thanks in advance.

Video is 1080. Picture and s 16 MP...How to set up Google Photos https://www.androidcentral.com/how-set-google-photos

I think if you shift to Original, it won't change what you already uploaded. But don't hold me to that. I can very well be wrong.