Google Photos. A surprise announcement came today after an extremely important change made to the Google company platform, which allows free storage of video clips and pictures for users all over the world. According to a change made last week, but not announced until now, Google Photos will no longer offer free storage space for certain types of video clips uploaded by users to the platform after December 6.
Google Photos. Although when the platform was launched, a few years ago, the promise was made that users would benefit from free space for photos and videos, the "rules of the game" are changing now. Starting December 6, Google Photos will also give you free space only for video clips in the following formats: mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, . m2ts, .mts, and .mkv.
Google Photos. ATTENTION, IT NO LONGER OFFERS FREE SPACE
Google Photos. The cancellation of the free space will be imposed only for video clips that are uploaded to the platform in formats that are not recognized by the company's servers, and implicitly by mobile terminals, or even some computers. We are talking here about formats like .VOB, or .RAW, or any other kind of format that Google Photos cannot process and compress, the storage space occupied by these types of video clips will be deducted from the available, or paid for , if you didn't have space available.
If you upload videos that Google Photos can't process, you should review them. If Google Photos can't play your video, you can download or delete it. Important: Unsupported videos uploaded after December 6, 2018 take up storage space.
Google Photos. This change is normal, because Google mentions that there are various types of video clips that are not supported by the platform, they cannot be played within the application for iOS and Android. Starting from December 6, you will have to download these types of video clips from Google Photos, or delete them, otherwise they will take up space in your accounts, in certain situations even quite a lot, so it is good to know what is happening.