Not everything is eternal in this life. Google, perhaps allowing itself to be influenced by the strategy of other brands in the sector, radically changes one of its services most used by users. The Google Photos application becomes paid, so we can already get used to the idea that we will not enjoy your gallery as before, although we should not be alarmed either. As a solution, it is possible pass all photos on Google Photos to another platform.
The Californian company itself, knowing that this could happen sooner or later, has provided users with a method with which we can migrate all the photos and videos that we have stored on the Google platform. In this way, it allows us to transfer all that content to another gallery or to other cloud services to keep them safe. We are going to indicate step by step the process that must be carried out to transfer our photos and videos.
Google Photos is paid, now what?
It was an open secret that had to come sooner or later. Five years after its official launch, Google has decided to implement it in the entire storage service for images and videos. Analyzing the situation carefully, the change is not as traumatic as the public may think. Although its service becomes paid, Google has not implemented a total ban on storing our files. From now on it is no longer possible store unlimited photos and videos and at no cost, something that most applications that offer this service have been doing for several years.
In fact, Google continues to cover that 15 GB voucher free storage for all its users. However, once we have reached the limit, that is when we will have to pay to continue enjoying more space in the cloud. Any photo or video that we upload to the application, whatever quality it may be, will tell us when it comes to consuming that free bonus, so there are no exceptions to continue enjoying unlimited freedom. However, all content that has been uploaded to date does not count towards that bonus, and will continue to remain stored in the gallery at no cost.
On the other hand, not all users who have this service will be affected. In fact, there are people who will continue to enjoy Google Photos in a normal way: those who own a device Google pixel. All models are included here, from 1 to 5. All photos and videos uploaded to these devices will still not count towards the 15GB of available storage, a measure quite well received by these customers.
As we have already said, if we want to continue enjoying this unlimited service we must bet on one of the different plans offered by Google. There are all prices, depending on the storage we want. These are the specifications of each plan for users who want to continue enjoying Google One:
- 100 GB: 1,99 euros per month
- 200 GB: 2,99 euros per month
- 2 TB: 9,99 euros per month
- 10 TB: 99,99 euros per month
- 20 TB: 199,99 euros per month
- 30 TB: 299,99 euros per month
How to migrate photos to another platform
As it is understood, all this is part of a plan to improve the service and limit the huge amounts of files that are uploaded per day by all users who use the service. These amounts can saturate your storage service, as has happened to certain users on occasion. It is true that Google offers that bonus of 15 GB of cloud storage for each Gmail account created, but it is a process that is not worth practicing every time we reach the limit of space. Therefore, it is better to have everything in a second cloud service.
- We access the page of Google Takeout, a website designed precisely to transfer the different data of all the services offered by the Californian company. We can do this part of the process with both the PC as with our Android terminal, although it will always be more comfortable from the mobile to have them more at hand.
- After logging into the page with our Google account, we scroll down until we find the Google Photos service, which in this case is the one that interests us. First of all, you have to press the option "Unmark all" to just leave Google Photos selected, where our photos and videos will be stored.
- Once we have selected the service, two options will be unlocked to select our files. The first one is "various formats", which is simply and plainly informative to show the formats in which Google is able to export the files. The second is "All photo albums included", which will help us to select the number of photos we want to export, divided by different albums according to their publication date.
- Once finished, we go to the end of the page to click on the option "Next step". Another screen will appear to determine the delivery method, as well as the size or format of the file. This step is very important, since in the first option we can choose to send us the file with all our content through a email or through another service cloud like Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, among others.
- With everything already configured, click on the button "Create export". From this moment on, Google will begin to gather all the stored files and to output the export. Depending on the number of albums, the process may take several hours and sometimes days, so you will have to be patient until the process is completed. The last step will be to download the compressed file along with all our photos and videos when Google advises us.
- With those photos already unzipped, it is time to choose the site to transfer the images from Google Photos to another platform that we want. If it is in another cloud service, we can choose options such as Amazon Photos, Dropbox or OneDrive.
