Google Photos app gets storage management tool to delete blurry photos

The Google Photos app will have a storage management tool to make it easier to delete unwanted images and videos. These are blurry photos, screenshots and large videos. Google is also going to rename the High quality storage option to Storage saver.

The Photos app is given the option to delete certain photos within the backup settings. Users can choose whether to delete large videos, blurry images, screenshots or images from ‘other apps’. When clicking on one of these four categories, the user will see all the images that Google believes fall into this category.

The user is also shown how many images are involved and how much storage they are using. The user can then choose to delete all or certain photos within this category.

The app will also give an estimate of how long the user can still use the available storage capacity in Google Drive until it is full. Google also looks at how often someone backs up content. Google expects that more than eighty percent of all users can go three years ahead with the 15GB free storage in Google Drive. As soon as this capacity is almost full, users will receive an app notification and email.

Google is adding these new options as it discontinues its free unlimited storage of photos and videos on June 1. At this point, all photos and videos backed up with ‘high quality’ are stored for free. From June 1, all backed up photos and videos will count towards Drive storage. Google Drive accounts get 15GB of standard storage by default. Images saved until June 1 don’t count towards that limit and are thus stored by Google for free.

The High quality storage option, which allows users to store photos and videos for free until June 1, will also be renamed. This will be called Storage saver. Furthermore, nothing will change in the quality, Google reports. So, this storage option keeps compressing the photos and videos.