Google has reportedly implemented a change to the Google Photos application that is widely used on both Android and iOS device. The change involves the way the application handles RAW files on Android devices and it could impact its users significantly.
Nowadays, many modern smartphones have the ability to capture images from their camera app in RAW format. These RAW images are unprocessed photo files that contain more data than JPEG files, which makes them larger in size, but also gives photographers more flexibility when editing their photos.
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Currently, all Google Accounts include 15 GB of free storage, which is shared across all Google applications. Most users will blow through that storage pretty quickly, especially when you add up the size of Android device backups and Gmail attachments to that number.
Unless you opt for external storage solutions, if you use Google Photos, you’re probably paying for a Google One plan that offers additional cloud storage. Hopefully, Google addresses this issue and clarifies if this is the new default behavior for the application — and what to do if storage is a concern.
