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Google Photos restricts some video formats from unlimited storage

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Enrique 11 December 2018

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Google Photos is a popular photo storage service offering free unlimited storage for photos and videos for iOS, Android, Mac, and PC as long as you don’t mind that google compresses your files a bit to save space.

The latest change to Google makes it so that unsupported videos uploaded to the platform count against your Google account storage quota. In order to get free storage, some users were disguising movies or other unsupported video files as RAW or some other unsupported video file extension.

This probably isn’t the only reason for the change, but Google added a short phrase to the Google Photos support page under “unsupported video”.

Important: [Unsupported] Videos uploaded after December 6, 2018 take up storage space.

Also already in effect, Google will no longer allow free storage for RAW files, which take up the most storage by nature. You’ll still be able to store them on Google Photos, but it will count against your storage quota and if you run out, you’ll have to pay for more storage.

Source | Via

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  • Just having a beer
  • pJs
  • 15 Dec 2018

It is unlimited storage for video and photos. Not for files faked as video just to get free upload. I side with this to Google, it isn't fair to them from the user side. And also to us end users as those people take the space unfairly

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  • H-1
  • ajb
  • 12 Dec 2018

Indeed! And if you happen to live in a bad coverage area, then you're better off with a 128+GB SD which happen to go on sale every now and then.

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  • vrvly
  • nin
  • 12 Dec 2018

It was always limited, about as much as data plans from carriers.

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