Google Photos will stop offering free unlimited storage option to its users from 1st June,2021

Users will no longer be able to upload 'high quality' photos to Google Photos for free. All photos uploaded in this manner will count toward your 15GB free Google Drive storage beginning June 15th.

It is getting expensive for Google to expand cloud storage with ever-increasing uploads from the customers.

Only those with Pixel (1st gen to 5th gen) phones, will have the privilege of free storage for photos in high-resolution quality. Every other Android and Apple iPhone users will have just 15GB of free storage.

If in need of extra space, they have to subscribe to Google One service with monthly (Rs 130)/annual (Rs 1,300) fees for 100GB and beyond. For 200GB and 2TB, consumers have to pay Rs 2,100 (Rs 210/month) and Rs 6,500 (Rs 650/month) for yearly plans, respectively.

It is a cloud storage platform from India, which offers 20GB of free space, unlike Google Photos. It supports Gmail integration, unlimited external collaborations, and end-to-encryption as well.

It gives 100GB of free cloud storage. The company claims that all the files are end-to-end encrypted. It is important to note that the free version has ads, and the paid cloud storage plans are ad-free.

OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud storage service, which supports features like auto back-up, auto-syncing. You only get 5GB of free storage with this service, but you at least get 100GB storage space for Rs 140 per month.

Well-known in the Apple ecosystem. iCloud is only really useful for Apple users who want to switch from Google Photos to iCloud.