Google Photos update helps free up your storage space

It’s sometimes frustrating to own an Android device that has 8GB or even 16GB of storage and you find yourself having to rearrange or delete apps just to have more space on your phone. It’s even more troublesome when said device doesn’t have expandable storage. Google Photos is hoping to ease your troubles a bit with its latest update for Android. It’ll let you store your media files online to free up space on your device. All you have to do is select the “Free up space” option under Settings and this will delete local copies of the files from your device, as long as they’ve been backed up already.

The app will also be able to alert you when you’re running low on storage space. It even makes it easier for you to delete backed up photos you don’t want, including those older than 30 days. Google’s John Elstone says you also now have the ability to downgrade photos from Original quality to High quality—the former is the full resolution of your shot, while the latter is a compressed version of your photo. The update is said to be coming to iOS soon, too.

Source: Google’s John Elstone + Google Photos’ Google+ | Via: Android Community | Download: Google Play Store