Storage Saver: All you need to know about the most important feature in Google Photos
What is Storage saver in Google Photos?
Google renamed its High quality storage tier to Storage saver earlier this year. The feature aims to help users save storage in Google Photos.
What is the purpose of Storage saver?
Storage saver helps reduce the size of users’ photos and videos. If you have photos in Original quality and want to save some storage space, change your already backed-up photos and videos to Storage saver quality. Photos are compressed to save space. If a photo is larger than 16MP, it will be resized to 16MP. As for videos, those that are higher than 1080p will be resized to high-definition 1080p. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original. Some information, like closed captions, might be lost. Please note that this setting won’t appear if you don’t have any photos in Original quality.
How to switch on Storage saver mode?
- On a computer/laptop, go to photos.google.com/settings.
- Click Recover storage.
Will this setting be permanent?
No, the storage saver works only with existing photos in Google Photos. It will not change the quality of users’ future uploads. Also, users can only recover storage once a day.
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