Photos and videos tend to take up the bulk of our devices’ storage space. If you find you’re running out of space on your phone, Google Photos has a new feature that will let you bulk delete photos and videos that have already been stored online.
Google Photos can automatically back up photos and videos from WhatsApp, Instagram, and other folders on your device. While this can come in handy for some, these media backups also take up storage space.
Why does Google Photos take up so much space?
So the recent trip photos you just uploaded using your PC and viewed from the app, it all gets cached in the memory. So when you open them next time, it will load from the cache, and doesn’t need internet. That caching takes up storage space. Thankfully, Google Photos have the option to limit cache size. For that, follow the steps below.
Why is my’Photos’app taking up so much space on Android?
‘Photos’ is online software which puts all your pictures from gallery to online Google account, the one which you’re using your android phone. So if your software is taking so much of space it means you probably have a lot of pictures in your gallery (from camera, downloaded pictures, WhatsApp images, etc.). The gallery itself might be 3-4 GB.
If you relied on the free storage and are now worried about running out of space, you can prepare yourself and avoid paying for more storage by freeing up space in Google Photos. Follow the below tips to free up storage space in Google Photos—as a bonus, you’ll also clean up your photo library while at it.
How much data does Google Photos use on your phone?
I have 400k pictures in Google photos, and the ‘ data’ space used by Google photos on my phone is around 4GB. Clearing the ‘data’, sets the app back to where it was when it was installed. You have to log back in to your account, and the app gradually rebuilds the data back to where it was before it was cleared.
Does Google Photos allow unlimited space for HD photos?
Google Photos allows unlimited space for HD photos, not the original ones. That means any picture that has been taken by a 16 MP camera would be taken as the HD one and stored under the unlimited storage. If you’re storing pictures by DSLR in original format, they don’t count. It will be deducted from your free 15 GB space on Google Drive.
Does Google Photos compress your photos?
Google compresses the uploaded copies to a certain degree (a maximum of 16MP for photos and 1080p for videos). Since using the Free Up Space option removes your local copies (or the originals in full quality), you can only ever view or download back the compressed copies from Google Photos.
Does deleting photos from Google Photos delete them from your phone?
Google says that this new “Free up space” option in the Google Photos app settings will remove the device copies of backed up photos and videos, but technically they’re not “backed up ” if you delete them from your phone and then they only live in one place (Google’s servers).