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I use Google photo because I have Pixel devices before and I get unlimited storage. I am still rocking my Pixel 4 as my back up device.
I'd be curious to try android as a mobile OS. I have a Shield TV (pro) and my Sony TV runs android TV, and I generally like the platform. I've heard the pixel line are typically good solid phones.
 
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It's hilarious seeing the sheeple here simply blast Google Photos. Let me guess 95% of the complainers about Google Photos have never even tried the product or service. It's a good one. It's simply disturbing to me how so closed minded some people can be to complain about something they don't even understand.

1. For photo editing and stuff, it does offer some neat features especially if you are on the Android side, but I prefer iOS Photos app for doing markups/annotation. For on device photo management, without a doubt I go with iOS' app.

2. From a sharing perspective, Photos is cross platform. It makes sharing photos with after a family vacation, friends vacation, etc super easy. Most important, someone doesn't even need a phone and can access via web if they wanted to.

3. The unlimited backup feature was neat while it existed from 2015 - 2021. I know our photos are scanned for AI learning, but I used those years to backup basically all my photos from 2003 when I got my first digital camera all the way through present day. That's nice to have, and there's NO WAY iCloud would've been affordable for the amount of data I've put on there.

For those of you who think Google Photos is unsafe, it's not. If you value privacy, then don't use it, but I wouldn't use ANY cloud photo service including iCloud, although the latest Advanced Data Protection may add a lot of privacy benefits for those who are on the fence.
 
Not if you want to avoid paying the Icloud fees. Of course it doesn't break One Drive which is nice. I don't want to pay monthly for Icloud so I've been finding ways to avoid it. 5 GB of free space is not enough. It should be 10 or more.
It should start at 50 GB minimum, I believe. Then paid tiers of 250 GB, 1TB and 5 TB, at least! With devices starting at 64 GB capacity, 50 GB free iCloud is not a lot to ask. IMHO, of course.
 
It should start at 50 GB minimum, I believe. Then paid tiers of 250 GB, 1TB and 5 TB, at least! With devices starting at 64 GB capacity, 50 GB free iCloud is not a lot to ask. IMHO, of course.

Multiply 50GB by 1+ million users? That's a ton of infrastructure to pay for without actually collecting any revenue for it. Talk about entitlement. Nothing in life is free.
 
Just updated my phone and Google Photos still works. I hadn't used it in a while, so it prompted me to give full access to my photos. Nope. I refused. Restarted the app, refused again and waited a little while before it finally when to the home screen and I could log into my account and see the photos I had uploaded through browsers a few years back.

Edit: Now the app only shows the prompt for full access. Okay. Deleted. It should not require full access to my phone's photos library just to view my Google library.
 
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And two posts below this one is a note to update because of a vulnerability under active exploit....


DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run!
 
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Should the article title read, “Google Photos app not compatible with newest version of iOS“. Apple didn’t break the app,
 
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Thank you MacRumors, for keeping on top of issues like this. I rely on google photos to share pics with my family (half pixel users) so not using google photos is really not an option. This would have been a HUGE headache. Hopefully this will be fixed ASAP.
 
Just updated my phone and Google Photos still works. I hadn't used it in a while, so it prompted me to give full access to my photos. Nope. I refused. Restarted the app, refused again and waited a little while before it finally when to the home screen and I could log into my account and see the photos I had uploaded through browsers a few years back.

Edit: Now the app only shows the prompt for full access. Okay. Deleted. It should not require full access to my phone's photos library just to view my Google library.
How else is it supposed to back up your photos if it doesn’t have access to your photo library?
 
I updated IPhone 13 Pro Max and IPad 9 this afternoon to 16.3.1 and now iPhone google photo app will not work but iPad does. Go figure!!
 
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As others have said, the sheeple are pathetic.

You can avoid Google and Facebook all you want, but if you use any internet enabled device then you've automatically forfeit most of your privacy to both of these companies.

Unless you're some kind of narc who has full control of what people in the same household are allowed to use, then guess what, Google have you IP logged anyway.

Funny thing is, people feeding Google photos servers their data resulted in the Pixel line having superior cameras.
 
""You get what you pay for" when using Google! Beware"

Not sure that's true. But you always pay for what you get. Nothing is free.
 
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