Google's Free, Unlimited Google Photos Service Now Available on iOS and Web

[oliversl]

So, basically, instant is now slow according to you. Interesting. No lag, smooth animations, barely even noticeable as an animation because it slides out fast.

Please to your same test on iOS6 and iPhone 5, then report back. Meanwhile, I have done the test you have done, iOS6 is faster than any Android and Any iOS7+

 

[Michael Goff]

Please to your same test on iOS6 and iPhone 5, then report back. Meanwhile, I have done the test you have done, iOS6 is faster than any Android and Any iOS7+

Go ahead an buy me an iPhone 5 and I will. Otherwise, I'd rather not. Also, I doubt that it's really faster than any Android phone or even the 6+. I think you have a case of confirmation bias.

 

[Oletros]

ha ha ha ha ha ha

If you laugh is because you can link to any source proving that Google sell personal information, isn't?

Or it is just hysterical laughing?

 

[vega07]

I can confirm that pictures shot at 16MP are stored at their original size and not further compressed or scaled. Anything larger is scaled/compressed to 16MP. This for me only comes into play when scanning in photos. I noticed when using the 1200dpi setting that the resulting size of the file on Google Photo was much less than my original and show as being 16MP in the info.

I'm not sure about that. One picture, for example, is 1.7 mb on my iPhone but 1.4 mb on Google. I'm assuming that's compression.

 

[cliffster82]

My question is, what if I want to use both? Either for a while or forever? Doesn't iCloud replace my photo with a lower res version as soon as it is uploaded (optimize storage turned on)? So now wouldn't Google be uploading my crappy lower res or would it somehow grab the original photo?

Seems like a tricky question. Because they're both trying to upload the photo seemingly at the same time when connected to WiFi.

 

[diamond.g]

My question is, what if I want to use both? Either for a while or forever? Doesn't iCloud replace my photo with a lower res version as soon as it is uploaded (optimize storage turned on)? So now wouldn't Google be uploading my crappy lower res or would it somehow grab the original photo?

Seems like a tricky question. Because they're both trying to upload the photo seemingly at the same time when connected to WiFi.

Photos.app should only replace the original on the iPhone when it is running low on space. So Google Photos should still be getting the full version.

 

[maflynn]

[MOD NOTE]
Lets bring the subject back on topic please.

 

[garylapointe]

It looks like it's compressing even my 8MB files at least when using the Google photos backup app (the web interface too). Does it for raw files too, even after asking me if I want to upload them (a warning here could have saved them some storage).

Didn't understand that it was going to do that...

If it's going to compress them anyways, I really don't care if it's going to downscale from 20MB to 16MB.

If it's going to compress them, to me it's more of an off-site emergency backup after a disaster (my house burnt down and so did my bank; or there was an EMP in the metro Detroit area and I've lost everything) that'll I'll be very happy to have this compressed backup of my 75,000 photos!

Gary