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A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to time
by ncann 6y ago
A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon, but it's still miles better than iCloud Photos in almost everything. From search, to timeline overview, to seamless integration with my Chromecast, to automatic face tagging, to editing.
- janlaureys 6y agoAnecdotal annoyance with automatic face tagging: Old dog and new dog look very similar. Google keeps tagging my new dog as if he were my old dog and I haven't found a way to fix that without manually going through every single picture and untagging/retagging.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoI'm just amazed these services have face tagging for dogs, and that you consider it so obvious that you feel like complaining about it.
- vorpalhex 6y agoIf it's broken, then it's broken. It doesn't matter how futuristic and awesome it is.
- ghostpepper 6y agoYep, in this case it sounds like “awesome futuristic idea poorly implemented” is worse than not having the feature. Adding a simple toggle to disable it (or even better, a blacklist of tags to never auto-add) would be the best compromise.
- lostlogin 6y agoI uploaded a 4D obstetric ultrasound to get rid of the CD. Photos.app tagged it as my child. That blew my mind.
- mav3rick 6y agoYou can manually go and say "this is my new dog" to improve the tagging.
- jeffbee 6y agoOn the web site, go to "explore" and pick the face of either dog, it should offer a little button that says "Same or different?" that will give you an opportunity to train it.
- datavirtue 6y agoThey can train your dog?!
- coralreef 6y agoNot concerned with handing all that data to Google?
- Alupis 6y ago> A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon Google has always charged for storage in Google Photos - it's part of your "Google Drive" storage quota. They do give you 10GB free though, which can be substantial for a lot of folks.
- prlin 6y agoThere was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.
- Alupis 6y agoI was under the impression that was only for Pixel phone owners - I suppose I was mistaken! Although low resolution image uploads doesn't seem very useful for most people. The point of cloud storage is peace of mind to keep your data safe... and to me that implies the original photos not reduced resolution photos.
- esolyt 6y ago> Although low resolution image uploads doesn't seem very useful They are still very high resolution. They're just not the original 50 MB file. It worked perfectly well for the overwhelming majority of people. Pixel offered unlimited storage even for uncompressed photos, but that option was also discontinued a few years ago.
- lupire 6y agoIt's compressed not reduced resolution for most practical cases.
- robertoandred 6y agoThose "free" photos and videos were still recompressed.
- bracketslash 6y agoThey have also always had unlimited uploads for free at lower quality.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoPhotos.app search has drastically improved ever since it started to use AI. I believe it was a search for "paper" that I did not too long ago, and which came up with several photos that were practically where-is-waldo games for me trying to find the paper.
- tspike 6y agoHow about privacy?
- izacus 6y agoI haven't seen any of my photos given out to anyone, so what's your concern? The ToS also doesn't say anything about sharing my private photos.
- jftuga 6y agoWorkaround: install the Google Opinion Rewards app which is even available on iPhone. It will ask you survey questions about places you have recently visited. (Yes, it tracks you). Over the course of a year, you can earn $20 in "virtual" money which can then be used to purchase the 100GB/year plan.
- comeonseriously 6y agoYou can (I do) earn that much without location sharing. But I've been doing it for a long time so I seem to get more surveys than I did at first. Looking at my history, I average just shy of 1.75/month.
- acdha 6y agoSearch is a mixed bag: Google configured it with low thresholds and was resistant to adding an error correction mechanism, so e.g. “cat” would match my dog and there was nothing I could do about it. The main thing, however, is the social features. iCloud just works and works well. Google Photos UI was really clunky and notifications weren't reliable so I'd miss comments from relatives.
- lupire 6y agoMaybe that's all worth $20/yr for photo and file storage?