Google Photos also offers features like unlimited photo storage, built-in social functions like commenting on albums and individual photos, facial and object recognition, a plethora of other features big and small. First off, there’s the simple ubiquity of Google accounts-practically everyone has one already and, if not, it’s free. While there is no shortage of ways to share photos among your friends, Google Photos offers some pretty enticing reasons make it your photo sharing platform of choice.

But if you exceed it, you'll have to start thinking about upgrading to Google's One plan, which start at $2/month for 100 GB of storage.Whether you want to share family photos with distant relatives or make a shared pool of vacation or event photos with friends, it’s easy to create and share collaborative albums in Google Photos. This 15GB of free storage that Google Photos offers is still more than the 5GB of free storage that iCloud Photos offers, and significantly more than the 2GB of free storage that Dropbox offers. If you uploaded your photos and videos to Google Photos before June 1, they do not count against your 15GB limit of free storage. But now, Google has walked back that feature.Īs of June 1, Google has officially ended its free unlimited storage plan and now capped it at 15GB - but it only effects new photos and videos.

Google Photos is one of the most popular cloud-based photo storage services for both Android and iPhone users - in large part, because for the last five years, it offered free unlimited photo storage, which was more than its competitors like iCloud or Dropbox. Welcome to Product Support, a column devoted to helping you get the most out of the stuff you already use.

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