@@JoshuaMcTackett to be honest is unsustainable to keep it free and unlimited for all. Plus all other companies are going the same way so Google's just following them instead of just doing there own thing
Yes, Google is changing their storage. In my Google Photos (GP) I have a few thousand images, plus GP editing is quite good as well. My photo are also on OneDrive as I am monthly paying MS $1.99. There are other storage options such as mega.nz/ they provide 50GB free. Other than Google providing photo editing, whereas Mega and OneDrive do not there is not much keeping folks tied to Google Photos.
I got onedrive and it backed up all my photos into one giant folder which I hate. Is there one that back ups directly into the folders as organized on my phone?
I often find it less user friendly (in terms of backup) that the pics in iCloud get deleted when I delete on my iPhone, while google photos can just keep backing up everything even I removed it from my phone. I’m thinking to add google photo subscription on top of my iCloud one
Nice review! The option that Amazon has, showing pictures on your television with a fire stick/TV. Google has it in their home app and chromecast, you can set up showing Google photos albums / favorites as screensaver for your chromecast. I like that a lot!
honestly the ability to store your photos as a file backup in folders is a feature google and apple is missing and for me the biggest selling point of OneDrive. Sure a gallery with effects is nice but thats not a backup, especially as there is no easy way to work around that with apple or google. Google take out is terrible and Apple doesn't let you export live photos.
Hi there.. I have both Android and Ios.. And what has surprised me.. Is both services actually aren't great to use when you need to put your photos onto the Pc or something. Google for example needs me to go to the website, find this difficult to find selection, then download batches into 2 gigabyte email files - it was a friggin nightmare these emails can take about a couple of days come thru I feel like reviewers gloss over the actual usage. You know, what happens when you actually need your photos.
What this is missing is the fact that these days many of us *already* have amazon prime, and with that now comes FREE Unlimited photo storage (including the huge raw and tiff!), so yeah, pricewise this is by far the best option now. Only holds 5 GB of video though, that's a bit sad. But for me, I'm not even storing them there. I have a (free) Piwigo install on my unraid NAS, which is much better than all the other options. You do have to consider an offsite backup option for that though, in case of a tornado or fire or asteroid hit ;-) But you also have to consider IF that offsite backup will hold after such disasters. It should not be in a nearby country, even.
What about album management? I have experience only with Google and it's terrible. You can't even see photos that are not assigned to any album, you can only see them by date (all of them) or by albums, so if a photo is not assigned to any album, the only way to see it is by viewing all photos. Imagine if you have 100k+ photos
Apple iCloud is probably the best and most convenient. I like using Google photos as my second option, and even free Amazon as a third option for backup. With an iPhone, it’s a pain to get to anything other than Apple photos if you want to send one to a friend etc
They have all they needed to train their algorithms. It was a trap all along, to get access to billions of our photos. Now they have no need for them anymore and retract their "free" bait. As we say in Germany: "The moor has done his duty, the moor can go."
I like my iPhone but I am so tired of Apple photos . As a photographer it literally just bottle necks everything . Why do we do we continue to allow them to provide us with such shite programs on nice devices???
What about Mega? Anyone have experience with Mega? Oh wait- I just watched your video from a year ago and got my answer! Thanks- just what I thought. Cheers from the USA.
Dropbox is a pain as well!!!. I have been looking for something else so watched this video with great interest. Dropbox only auto uploads photos when it feels like it. Sometimes when I open Dropbox on the PC it will suddenly start uploading photos from months ago. I would like something that removes the photos from the phone and upload it to the cloud automatically. Any suggestions? I have Google file stream and One drive as well.
You don’t seem to be aware of Network Attached Storage, NAS. I use Synology NAS and can if I wish access my 230,000 photos remorptely. Mostly I just store them on my NAS and 5 other hard drives, plus online Synology storage. I will be putting one of my NASs at my brothers home so as not to have my storage just in one place. I would rather trust my equipment than hope that the likes ok Google can store them well. I also burn my photos to Blu-Ray as an extra precaution.
The only problem I have with google photo is I can't create folders to organise the pictures. I have also read that if you uploud photos from google photos to your laptop desktop for example, you lose all the metadata of the picture and it will have the date of uploud instead.
Important question. Who can really see your data besides myself? Are those services end-to-end encrypted? Do Amazon Photos also sell your data to 3rd party marketing companies as Google does?
Google photos claims to be just an app for backing up photos taken from smart phones. This is not really comparable to Amazon, One Drive etc for off-site backup of photos stored on computers.
Google photos is no doubt winner. I have lifetime 1tb onedrive account. But to be honest, it is just a storage. Google photos is way more ahead all others feature-wise.
This was very well explained but I’m still confused with iCloud. Google will let me delete photos from my camera roll as those will be saved in the cloud (more free storage for me!) but apple won’t, so I don’t see the point. If I reach my iphone storage limit what good can be iCloud? I’m new to iOS.
I'm trying to switch away from Google storage because I'm actually not a hug fan of their user experience, more for documents but also photos. I don't find it easy to sufficiently organize them. I am specifically annoyed that Google removed the ability to move files of all sorts from one Google app to another. You can no longer move photos from Google photos to Google Drive. You have to download them to your device and then re-upload them. What?! That is not user friendly at all and so stupid. Also, my phone is currently running out of storage space, which among other things being affected, for some reason inhibits Google photos from loading things properly. For instance, if I want to show someone a short video I took a few months ago and find it in Google photos it will not load to display. All that to say, I have a lot of beef with Google storage atm.
Thanks for the video. Also just a quick note with plex you can limit who can see what folders so security is good. It relies more on user organization than AI. So if you're a person who wants to manually organize your photos with albums it's more powerful that way. EX: in Google photos I can't make an album and upload say my wife photos just to that album. There really is no manual organization which makes it hard to rely completely on AI to find and old photo that AI miss labeled. Not to mention I can't share my storage with my wife and she see all the albums I spent so much time making on Google Photos.
I hate google because it is all virtual, no actual disk folder structure anywhere, which is just horribly un-user-friendly if you ask me. Google's ways are kinda' for the Apple users. If you want control over your data, you don't want google to make choices for you. Tried it once, ran away screaming, it is immensely time-consuming to use google as your 'friend'. And scary too. Do you really trust a US empire business to protect YOUR data and not abuse your privacy? Think again..
please explain - 1)supose i paid 1month 100gb - i filled 100gb. ddidnt use/paid for 3months . then again paid 1month-100gb will i get total 200 gb or that previous 100gb only to edit. $$$ if possible make short video for non reglar general cloud users features and problems
I have paid Rs 1300 for 100GB of storage as annual subscription to Google one on 2nd Dec 2021. I thought that i will 100 GB is per month for a year. Then why is it showing that my Google storage is almost full?
Can I get in touch with Google photos? Another Question? I have A large amount of Physical photo's given to me from my Grandmother & more from my mother. I also have photo's & negatives of the photo's I've taken since I received my first camera at 11 yrs old. Nope it don't feel old I'm 52 just want All these photo's to be available for my Grandchildren & Great Grandchildren etc. Thank you
This is great! I’m scanning boxes of printed photos, and I want to be able to tag family members in old photos. So would you still recommend Google for this?
Hey thanks for the video, but now google has switched to google workspace instead of the suite, and the unlimited storage thing doesn’t seem like an option anymore. Or am I just missing something???
i just buy a new SSD hard drive each year and upload to that all the time, once you have got all your photos in the cloud they can up the price at anytime and then your screwed. Amazon photos, be careful when you add to amazon they take them from your Hard Drive, they dont copy the file they take it, i have a amazon alexa show device with the free 5GB storage and only noticed what it did when i lost some photos. i am sticking to external ssd sod the cloud. great video
What about now that google photos is not going to be free anymore? Everything will count towards your small limit and eventually you would have to pay cash 😮
Admittedly I didn't watch your whole video due to time constraints of mine; however, I watched your summary and I noticed your graphic on costs did not show that as an Amazon Prime Member you get unlimited free photo storage at highest resolution, for instance .raw files and 5gb free video storage.
when i upload videos that i took on my sony camera into google photos, it automatically changes it to become a slow motion video...and i have no idea why. so im thinking about switching to one drive, since id rather organize photos in folders instead of everything being bunched up in a single area (google photos main page)
Anyone knows if one of the cloud can also back up the photos marked as favortie? Like the little heart on samsung. Or will you lose that favorite mark when you back up the photos to a new phone?
@@PeteMatheson thank you for the answer. Samsung cloud actually don't support the photos anymore. It proposes one drive as the default back up... I'm hesitating with switching from ios to android. At least with icloud I know the favorites are also backed up 😭
I have personally used Google for sometime as it is so brain dead easy to use. I also because my my paranoia back up all photos from mobile to my Synology which is also dead easy! win win ! Thanks for your great insight.. Stay Safe
Hi Pete, In light of recent Big Tech Censorship, prompting my move from google drive to an alternative. Which would you recommend that isn't Amazon, Apple, or Google. I would like one with good security, a commitment to not censor, and has a good UI. Please advise, Thanks
Hi Pete! Is there any downside in using two or more? I have Google Photos and also since I have Prime I could use Amazon Photos as well. Any problem? Thanks
On iPhone 11 on Google photos I don’t have the option for unlimited storage, just the 15gb free then upgrade for more storage. Doe Apple not get the free unlimited option Samsung do?
@@PeteMatheson I don't have that option on my iPhone. In back up settings it just says back up has stopped as I'm up to 15gb limit and to purchase more storage. Other than that it says back up at lower resolution and reviver 11.93gb of storage by compressing existing items then says resume back up, then when I click resume back up it says existing items will be compressed to reviver 11.o3kb. This can't be undone. Is this the option on iphone for unlimited storage? On android it clearly says unlimited storage or 15gb. Iphone i don't get the 2 options saying the same as on a Samsung. I don't want to click the resume back up incase if wipes my photos off my iPhone. Lol
@@PeteMatheson Thank you. Its really strange because I click on back up and storage and all I have is the account storage at the top saying 15gb full and underneath it says other options back up at lower resolution. Resume back up and then that message pops up to compress images and recover 11gb. This can't be undone it says. So I'm am tad worried to do that incase I lose anything. It doesn't give me the unlimited option at high quality on iPhone but does on a Samsung. Confusing lol. Thanks for your help.
Alright let me share what i experienced. I searched google and youtube "best cloud services to store photos" like so. Then I watched your intro like hypnotized and when I saw apple i quit your video. Too much Intro. I recommend you dive in to the subject.
Funny, the “folder style” of OneDrive and Dropbox are the best features of all these cloud based storage solutions... iphotos are crap on pc. And i don’t like Google.
