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Google Photos 2.0 — Free storage & automatic organization for all your memories
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Tom Bielecki
Is this really a 2.0 release? Seems pretty much the same.
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2014: Year of Whatsapp
2015: Year of Snapchat
2016: Year of Google Photos "Free Up Space" feature saving my life
Should I switch to "High quality" from "Original" given that my iPhone 6s Plus maxes out pictures under Google's free picture ceiling (12MP < 16MP) while maxing out videos above their free video ceiling (4K > 1080p) ? I would like to keep my 4K videos 4K but how many GB are those 4K videos taking up in the 196.22 GB used in Google Photos, with the 6s Plus media representing only one year of the 12 years of photos uploaded?
Several interesting improvements, especially following yesterday's announced camera updates in iPhone 7:
Live Photos bring photos to life with sound and motion, but can suffer from the everyday bumps and shakes that happen when you take photos. Plus, they can be hard to share with friends who don’t have an iPhone.
Now, using advanced stabilization and rendering, you can make your Live Photos smoother and more shareable in just a tap. Google Photos can freeze the background in your Live Photos or create sweeping cinematic pans, turning your Live Photos into beautiful, captivating moments. Easily save it as a looping video and share it with anyone.
Also in this update:
• Choose a new thumbnail for faces in People
• Sort photos in albums chronologically or by recently added
• Easier sharing to YouTube
• Performance improvements
Adding "the sort photos in albums chronologically or by recently added" almost makes it possible for us to switch from flickr for family photos. One big pain point for me, is adding descriptions to photos in album view is missing. You have to go in to each photo one by one and add a description. Also, first class support for embedding an album in a blog post, etc would be very nice.
@jeberly I recently made the transition and haven't looked back. 200K photos and videos later, I'm completely migrated.
For me it wasn't a feature-set, more than shelf-life. Flickr's future is shaky at best.
@brettsinn Thanks Brett. I realized I could probably get beyond the description, but there is one last big thing for me I realized after posting this. How best do families use Google Photos? Ideally my wife and I would share a photo album or automatically have access to each other's photos. Anyone?
Google Photos for Android "Device folders" ....... just shit.
1. I edit my photo, Google Photos NAVER update.
2. I delete photo or folder, Google Photos NAVER update.
3. When I try to delete in the Google Photos has actually been non-existent folder or photo, Google showed unable to delete, and then will always be displayed.
.......
This is Google Photos for Android
since this is on producthunt, could someone please develop an app that allows my google photos to be printed through photo printing services?
Such a great app especially with all the pictures and memes i have saved on my phone
Have loved Google Photos for a while now, makes uploading everything so simple. One of the apps on my home screen, in addition to Apple's photos app.
I'm a fan but unwilling to use it for anything more than backups for one reason: When I delete a photo on my phone (tons of trash, screenshots etc that are 'temp') - it doesn't delete the corresponding photo on Google. I understand that is seen as a feature (save up space and all), but I wish there was an option or, if not, a way within the app to delete photos off your phone and Google together...
@hemalr87 I simply use Google Photos as my primary photo app instead of the local photos app. Then you don't have this problem.
@mpjme Yea I should do that hey! I'll have to stop using https://www.producthunt.com/tech... but probably worth the trade-off
Nice. To be honest Google photos is far better than iCloud but I feel this missed out on one key feature - an importer!
I have so much on iCloud that downloading it all to my device and uploading to Google photos makes the whole thing a non-starter.
Google should really invest in the ability to import media from other sources (iCliud, Dropbox) before AI tagging, auto-albums and all that.
@michaelrbock Thanks by I have tried the Mac version and it is the worst Google product I have ever used - there is no control of what it's doing...
I once tried to upload a 4 gig folder of photos. I later decided to cancel it, but there is no option to cancel the operation... you can't even delete the files!
:(
@shai_alon @michaelrbock agree, it's terrible. Mine keeps deciding it needs to reimport 30,000 photos - for funsies.
I used to be an avid google photos user even though I have an iPhone but now I'm going back to iCloud. I'd rather have stability than use a product than can be discounted at any time on top of some privacy concerns, so thanks but no thanks.
