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Users are still limited to 15GB of free storage with anything more requiring a paid upgrade. It comes as Google last July made the storage manager tool inside Google One app available to all, regardless of subscription status.

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In the latter you see the additional option to enable/disable “Multimedia messages” and “Photos & videos.” All those preferences will soon be available in the new Backup by Google One page in Android settings.ĭespite the “Google One” branding, this backup system will be available to all Google Accounts. In the gallery above, the first two screenshots are from the system Settings app, while the third is inside the Google One app. Users will now have less to manage and be actively aware of what is being stored. This usually does come into play until they get a new device and are setting it up. Today, people are primarily aware of Google One (which most equate with Google Photos media backup) and might not be familiar with what’s automatically done in the background. This unified approach is meant to remove any distinction in backups. Last year, the company started allowing anyone to back up MMS, but that required installing and using the Google One app.

With this change, MMS is now part of the Android backup experience by default. Namely, it can also back up photos, videos, and MMS messages with management and control now directly in Android settings, in addition to the existing Google One app or website.

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Setting up a seccond, tird, n-th acount seems to not work so well, cause you will need to switch among them to search or find the great creations they do with our photos.Google today started rolling out “Backup by Google One” as an update over the existing Android backup service that now means end users only have to be aware of one sync to the cloud.Īndroid backups currently cover app data, SMS messages, call history, contacts, and device preferences - including Wi-Fi networks and passwords, wallpapers, display settings (brightness and sleep), language and input settings, and date/time.īackup by Google One is billed as being more granular and expansive, as well as unified.

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So it is not surprising that Google should not be happy in backing up all those images.īeside that, my Full Resolution Photos are not that big at all, most of them never got to that 8Mp point, but if you use the original/full res backup mode they will take space from your gmail/drive account. To try to solve this, I wanna greate a script, Python/Perl may be good picks, that find those high res images in Google Photos, download/delete them, and push them to the backup again using the free storage 'High quality' mode.Ī little more context, I am a freakin' father that take photos always at burst mode from my kid, my pets, special family momments, etc. Sometimes in the past, my app had switched to full resolution backup, without any advice, and some of my files were backed up in full res taking part of my quota away. I think that 16Mp is pretty much good for a long term backup (in fact I thought that 8Mp was very good), so I go for the 'High quality' option, bu it led me to two main problems:Īs long as Google is not backing up my full resolution Photos, the auto delete feature is unavaliable. Google Photos app offers to backup our photos for free, in their full resolution using your google combined storage (Gmail+Docs+Photos up to 15Gb free), or at 'High quality' (up to 16 Mp photos and HD videos) without affecting your quota.

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