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Google Photos is due for a massive policy change starting 1st June and that will change will mean no more free, unlimited storage for 'high quality' photos.
It is worth noting that all your existing 'high quality' compressed photos and videos are exempt from this change and won't count towards the 15GB default storage that comes with a Google account. But new 'high quality' photos and uncompressed 'Original' ones will count towards your storage once the policy kicks in which means that now is a good time to free up some of that storage by deleting the unnecessary stuff.
Google is doing its bit to help you in that vein by fulfilling on a promise made during the original policy change announcement. The search giant has now added a weeding tool of sorts to help get rid of all that unnecessary stuff eating at your storage. As per a fresh blog post, Google said "today, we're starting to roll out a tool in the Photos app to help you easily manage the photos and videos you’ve backed up that count toward your storage quota".
According to Google, the "the storage management tool surfaces photos or videos you might want to delete – like blurry photos, screenshots and large videos – so you can get the most out of your storage."
As is the case with Google's new feature additions, the roll-out of this feature is phased and might take a bit of time to reach everyone, but once it does show up you'll be able to access it by following these steps:
Step 1: Clicking on your account icon in the top right corner of the 'Library' section
Step 2: Head over to 'Account storage'.
Step 3: Tap 'manage storage'
You should now be able to see new sections including 'blurry photos', which will then take you to a grid of the snaps in your collection that are afflicted with motion blur.
Alongside the new tool, Google Photos also stated in its blog post that it'll soon be renaming its 'high quality' storage tier to 'Storage saver'.
This won't change anything much for the user, but it does mean that Google is finally conceding that what they'd want us to believe to be 'high quality' isn't quite up there. That said, there will still be two sizes of storage to choose from for Google Photos, but these will now be called 'Storage saver' and 'Original'.