Having spent six full months on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover has already snapped up 125,428 photos, and it's showing no signs of slowing down.
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The 3 best Google Photos alternatives to store your photos and videos
Are you looking for a Google Photos alternative now that Google has ended free unlimited photo storage? Worry not, there are plenty of options available for someone who takes a lot of photos and stores them on the cloud. The photos and videos already on Google Photos will still be available, but anything uploaded after June 1st will count towards the free 15GB storage. Of course, you can sign up for a Google One storage plan and get more space. However, there are a couple of better alternatives that you may want to try.
How to download photos and videos from Google Photos
Starting June 1st, all new photos and videos you upload to Google Photos will count against your free 15GB of storage. Prior to this, Google was providing unlimited storage to all users, but now it will only be available for Pixel phone users. If you don't feel like paying extra for your photo storage, the best thing to do is to download all your photos and videos from Google Photos. This way, you'll free up some space for new photos and videos.
Gmail gains a “Save to Photos” button as Google brings a handy new shortcut to the iOS app
Google now lets you save image attachments from Gmail to your Google Photos account with ease. Also, the company rolled out a new Siri shortcut command in Gmail for iOS and iPadOS.
Google Photos is making it easier to cherry-pick the Memories content you look back on
Google Photos is introducing several new features in its iOS and Android app designed to make it easier to relive your favorite moments and pick the content for the Memories feature.
Google Photos is gaining a feature that turns two similar images into a single moving shot
Google Photos is rolling out a cool new feature that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to animate a virtual camera for a smooth, nicely done panning effect.
How to automatically upload your photos to Google Photos instead of iCloud on iPhone
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to set up Google Photos on your iPhone, move photos and videos from iCloud Photos to Google Photos, disable iCloud Photo Library, and enable auto-upload of iPhone photos to Google Photos.
How to transfer iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos
Apple introduced a new feature that allows you transfer your iCloud photos and videos to Google Photos. The service doesn’t remove any of your photos or videos from iCloud, it simply copies them over to Google Photos.
So if you’re interested in a third-party backup of your items or are planning to make a switch away from iCloud, this could make it easy. Here, we’ll show you how to get the ball rolling to transfer your photos and videos, the limitations you may run into, and a few other things you need to know.
Apple launches a service to transfer your iCloud Photos collection to Google Photos
If you were hoping Apple would launch a dedicated service to transfer your iCloud Photos collection to a third-party service, well, the wait is over.
Google Photos is getting a redesigned editor
Google Photos will be rolling out a redesigned editor on iOS over the coming weeks.
How to create auto-updating albums in Google Photos
Google Photos has some nice features and is a good alternative or addition to the Photos app. You can create movies in Google Photos and collages. Another handy feature is the auto-updating album which is similar to the Smart Album feature in Photos on Mac.
With this type of album, you can set it to update automatically when new pictures of family, friends, and pets are added to Google Photos. This saves you some time from having to manually add new photos to an album.
To help you organize your pictures better in Google Photos, here’s how to create auto-updating albums.
Google to fix a bug that gave iPhone owners unlimited high-resolution photo storage
Google has said that a loophole in its Photos service that seemingly gave iPhone owners unlimited storage for high-resolution media is a bug, one that it intends to fix soon.