This app was recommended to me by an IT (Apple) trainer on a cruise I was on a few years ago. Whilst my 30,000 family photos stored on my Mac are took some time to upload - a couple of weeks actually! (but thankfully all for free!!), this app is a brilliant mobile device compliment to the Google photos software which gives me complete remote access to ALL of my photos and videos, something which, if done through Apple Photos, would now be costing me a monthly subscription. Just hope Google never start to charge!! This is an incredible bit of software and cannot be recommended highly enough. The reminders of events from years ago on anniversaries are great and I love the videos google throws together, sometimes within a few hours of upload - also love how you can have any number of devices (cameras, macs, PCs, phones etc) all subscribing to the same account so that the whole family's photos can be accessed by any family member either via the app or by logging into the google account ( tip - set up a specific family gmail address for this that you can all access and subscribe to - save having to give out your passwords for your personal google account). Being able to share your library with people who do not subscribe to the photo collection is also a neat touch. Why would you not use this app?!! The search capability is also incredible via the really Clever mechanucs behibd the system. Just search “dog” and see all your photos containing a dog!! More great enhancements to come over time, I'm sure!

I have a family member that has been using Samsung ever since 2015 with google photos stored on his phone and he has millions of photos that just now can’t be stored anywhere as he’s ran out of storage. I completely understand myself, including him that, it’s ONLY )1.29 or something a month, but it’s just no good that people like him need to be put in a tough situation where you can’t store your photos anywhere anymore, even Samsung iCloud is now going to be a ‘must have’ payed sumbscription to store photos on Samsung bc Samsun will delete photos by 30th of September permanently if not stored onto the cloud, which is ridicules for Samsung to even do. And I feel like google photos and other photos and files storing apps should think about, how other people have stored memories somewhere that soon need to be payed for, these are m’empestiez we’re talking about! It’s no good. So I finally hope that in the future that google photos will make a real change and increase the default storage to at least 36GB L. Phones nowadays are 1TB and storing photos on 15GB is just crazy. There’s a huge difference and this doesn’t just apply for google photos, but also default gallery’s and photos apps on iPhones and Samsungs that should provide a larger iCloud storage plane.

I’ve been using Google Photos for a few years now, mainly as my primary backup of my photographs taken using my phone. It allows me to keep my phone space free while being able to formulate albums, mark favourites and easily share memories to other apps. I am an avid photographer of my children (my memory isn’t as good as it was, thanks baby brain) and the Recent Highlights/highlights of this week from previous years has enabled me to easily revisit cherished moments. Now if I had written this review last week, it would have been 5 stars, but the announcement that there will now be a charge has put a dampener on whether I continue to use this app or find another free way of storing my photographs. I’m trying to find a way of writing this without sounding petty (and failing) but it’s disappointing to see this currently free service now be charged for additional storage, of which shall be within 7 months if the calculated projected timescale for me is correct. The fact that it was free for unlimited storage at a marginally lower quality (which was still amazing quality) was a huge pull for me to use this service. I don’t have a lot of spare time to sit and manually back up and organise my photos so this app has really helped me to feel organised and up to date when I’ve been able to have a spare few minutes. I am really reluctant to have my photos in different places, but if the charges come through then that may have to be the case.

Make a world of difference by making the app even more enjoyable. As I can’t get to customer services or speak to the Google experts directly I say it in any way possible to get heard. There should be link or button to speak to Google experts about anything. This is the main problem everywhere. Good Google photo App. Apple photos is good too and hope there would be a feature to move, copy files straight to our Apple servers which it never allowed & hope it would in the future but I’ll be too old. Google photos App & Google drive I have helps and paying monthly subscriptions. It doesn’t cost much & does the work. I say why cancel it & erase all google data when I don’t need it only when it’s needed. I’ll keep it going and it’s only a small amount every month. Google subscribers who die are informed before or after their death even if they don’t Google delete & close their accounts after a many months or years if they they’re Google accounts have not been active for some years or so. It worries me about all this this why… I am old slowing down & will die at some stage and thinking of removing all data now as the years move on.