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Google Photos: Learn to export pictures, videos offline

November 16, 2020 by Arhama Altaf

Google Photos had announced to end the free unlimited photos and video uploading by 2021. All photos and videos will count towards the 15GB limit very soon.

In case, if you don’t want to pay the price of 100GB storage on Google Photos, then you might want all your data from Google. For this, you will have to visit the Google Takeout site. Have a look to know more about it.

What is Google Takeout?

Google Takeout is basically a service that lets you take all the data that you have stored in your Google account. You can download all your data from here all at once. So, your contacts, Google Drive files, YouTube videos you’ve watched and every other thing associated with your Google account can be downloaded from here.

You are also allowed to select or deselect the dates of the photos you want to export.

Google Photos will stop its free unlimited storage from June 2021

November 12, 2020 by Arhama Altaf

The most convenient feature from Google Photos let the users upload unlimited photos and videos but this feature will soon won’t be available, announced Google in a blog post.

In 2021, Google Photos will apply the 15GB upload limit as a default on every Google account.

Previously, this only applied to photos uploaded in full uncompressed quality, whereas there was no limit on uploading high quality compressed images.

However, from June 2021, all photos and videos will count towards the 15GB limit.

The new changing will apply for the date uploaded after June 2021 and anything added before will not be counted.

Additionally, after the announced month, users will need to subscribe to Google One services to extend their privileges.

However, if you are inactive on the platform for more than 2 years, or have exceeded your upload limit for over 2 years, then Google may delete your content across multiple services.

Also, if you have a pixel phone, you can continue to upload full quality images endlessly for years.

Google redesigning Gmail to make it a productivity hub, aims to get ahead of Microsoft

July 16, 2020 by Arhama Altaf

Alphabet’s Google said on Wednesday its corporate Gmail customers would now be able to edit documents and other files without leaving the email service.

The announcement by Google was made at cloud unit’s annual customer and partner conference.

The tech giant has been trying for more than a decade to catch up with Microsoft’s Office, which dominates the global market for corporate email and document-editing tools.

Both companies have been adding video-calling features and other collaboration tools to attract new business from companies operating from home during the pandemic.

Google contends it has found an edge with potential customers by promoting Gmail as a single hub for workers to access text chats, video calls, and now documents. Microsoft has limited tie-ins between its email and chat tools, Outlook and Teams.

Google Photos will not back up WhatsApp and Instagram images anymore

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 by Muhammad Usman

The company revealed (via Android Police) that Google Photos would no longer back up photos from WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, and other messaging and social networking services. Google is doing it to save resources, as “people are sharing more photos and videos” during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a community message. The change tends to be … Read more

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