Google Photos

Pixel 4 Fans Fire Up Online Petition for Google to Bring Back Unlimited Original Quality Backups

Tim October 17, 2019

Shortly after Google unveiled the new Pixel 4, it was noted on the device's listing page that it would not include unlimited Google Photos storage for original quality photos. Instead, Google is offering unlimited "high quality" backups. This, of course,...

PSA: Pixel 4 Does Not Come With Unlimited Original Quality Photo Backups

Tim October 15, 2019

Unlike previous years, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL will not come with unlimited original quality photo backups inside of Google Photos. As you may be aware, Google used to couple past Pixel devices with unlimited cloud storage for original quality photos inside...

Google Photos Now Offers Photo and Canvas Prints, Search by Text Goes Live

Tim September 12, 2019

Back in August, Google announced that Google Photos users would soon be able to search photos by the text inside of them. This function is ideal if you're looking for a photo of a recipe or something like that. Today, that feature is live. Maybe more cool,...

Google Photos Getting Ability to Search Photos by the Text That’s In Them

Tim August 23, 2019

Google Photos announced via Twitter this week that starting this month, users will be able to search for photos via the text that's in them. For example, if you have a photo of a stop sign, you could go back and search for "stop" in the search bar and retrieve...

Google to Stop Automatically Putting Media From Google Drive Into Google Photos and Vice Versa

Tim June 12, 2019

Starting in July, Google is changing the way Google Photos and Google Drive interact with each other because frankly, it was a confusing mess. Once this change takes place, new photos and videos from Google Drive will not automatically appear in Google Photos....

Google Photos Goes Dark…Mode

Kellen June 5, 2019

Google Photos initially picked up a dark mode this week for users running the Android Q beta, but the darkness is now spreading to phones running Android Pie and Oreo. Versions 4.17 or 4.18 of that app appear to pack the darker theme, though there isn't...

Google’s Sunday Service Outage Caused by an “Incorrectly Applied” Server Configuration

Kellen June 4, 2019

Yesterday's Google Fi outage wasn't the only major outage Google services suffered this week. On Sunday, a somewhat major outage took out Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and other services for a number of hours for millions of users. Google blamed "network...

Google Fi Customers Can Now Claim a Free Google Photos Photo Book

Tim December 19, 2018

Google Fi has a holiday present for customers this week, a free photo book from Google Photos. To claim, you can play a simple web-based game or simply skip that step. The game is an extremely basic task, with a dinosaur jumping over obstacles. How far you...