The Google Photos app is getting a storage management tool to make it easier to delete unwanted images and videos. It involves blurry photos, screenshots, and large videos. Google will also rename the High quality storage option to Storage saver.
The Photos app is given the option to delete certain photos within the backup settings. Users can choose whether to remove large videos, blurry images, screenshots, or images from “other apps”. When clicking on one of these four categories, the user will see all the images that Google believes fall within this category.
The user is also shown how many images are involved and how much storage they are using. The user can then choose to delete all or certain photos within this category.
The app will also provide an estimate of how long the user can use the available storage capacity in Google Drive until it is full. Google also looks at how often someone backs up content. Google expects that more than eighty percent of all users can use the 15GB of free storage in Google Drive for three years ahead. Once this capacity is nearly full, users will receive an app notification and email.
Google is adding these new options in the context of ending free unlimited photo and video storage on June 1. At present, all photos and videos backed up with “high quality” are stored for free. Beginning June 1, all backed up photos and videos will count toward Drive storage. Google Drive accounts get 15GB of standard storage by default. Images saved until June 1 do not count against that limit and are thus saved by Google for free.
The High quality storage option, which lets users save photos and videos for free until June 1, will also be renamed. This will be called Storage saver. Furthermore, the quality does not change, reports Google. So, this storage option keeps compressing the photos and videos.