If you’re a Google One subscriber, Google might owe you some money
Google wrapped things up by including this in its email:”This will not affect your Google One subscription status. No action is needed, but you can change or cancel your subscription if you no longer need additional storage. You can log into your account to view your adjusted quota usage. The affected photos and video uploads will continue to be stored in the quality they were uploaded (our italics), however they will not count toward your storage quota.”
Next year, starting on June 1st, 2021 to be exact, Google will no longer be giving away free back up storage. Instead, all backups will count toward the 15GB of free Google cloud storage (no matter the photo quality) that subscribers receive.
If you want to quickly check whether you are eligible for the refund, take a look at your phone or tablet. If the device you’re staring at is not an iPhone or an iPad, you are not due to get cash back. Even if you have an iPhone or iPad, you would only be eligible for a refund if you had purchased additional cloud storage space because Google mistakenly showed that your account had no cloud storage space remaining when in reality, you did have additional storage to use. Those are the Google One accounts that Google is contacting first.
