Google Photos gives unlimited storage at full quality, but only to iPhoneWhat you need to know
iPhone owners can enjoy unlimited photo storage at full quality with Google Photos.
Pixel 4 owners are currently left without the benefit.
A high-efficiency file format that iPhone supports is the cause of the mishap.
It's not mad science, it's just file formats.
A new finding shows that iPhone owners will enjoy unlimited storage of all of their photos at full quality on Google Photos, while Pixel 4 owners are being left without the benefit. Uncovered by Reddit user stephenvsawyer and reported by 9to5Mac, iPhone owners who use the default format for their photos (HEIC/HEIF) will create files that are actually smaller than the JPG files that Google compresses for photos taken with the Pixel.
"With all modern iPhones shooting photos in HEIC format, which is smaller than even Googles compressed JPG files, iPhones therefore get free unlimited ORIGINAL quality backups simply because it would cost Google both storage space (because if Google tried to compress iP...
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Google Photos gives unlimited storage at full quality, but only to iPhone
