Is Google Photos Actually Free? – BGR

Whether or not you consider Google Photos a free service is complicated, despite the simple premise. Google Photos launched in 2015 as a free service to house your photos with unlimited storage for videos and images. But this changed in 2021, when Google announced a hard cap of 15 gigabytes on Photos’ free storage, sharing this limit with Gmail and Drive, to “keep pace with the growing demand for storage.” While a few Pixel phones retained their free photo storage after 2021, Google Photos mostly moved to…