Until now, uploading photos on your Android phone had seemed like a perfectly good idea. Now, however, that decision is going to hit you right in the wallet. From 1 June, Google began to enforce its new storage policy. Going forward, blocking photos from uploading to Google Photos, as weird as it sounds, will eventually save you money.
Let us explain. If you take a photo on an Android phone, it automatically uploads itself to the Google cloud, where it’s stored in perpetuity. Those photos are stored in what Google calls “high resolution” by default – something close to the original resolution you shot.
What Google previously offered was an agreement to store every single one of those ‘high resolution’ photos for free, no matter how many there were or how much space they consumed. Now, every…