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After five years of offering unlimited free photo backups at “high quality,” Google Photos will start charging for storage once more than 15 gigs on the account have been used. The change will happen on June 1st, 2021, and it comes with other Google Drive policy changes like counting Google Workspace documents and spreadsheets against the same cap. Google is also introducing a new policy of deleting data from inactive accounts that haven’t been logged in to for at least two years.
Do me a favor and just rely on local storage instead. Get a external hard drive and go from there. Makes me sad that considering so many other services now no longer exist thanks to Google such as Everpix, Loom, Ever, Picturelife, Color, Carousel etc. I've been doing local backups for years now and glad I did.
Google will end its free unlimited Photos storage on June 1, 2021, imposing a 15GB cap, but photos and documents uploaded before then will not count against cap