Google is also providing the following tips for using Google Photos. It has applied 2 trillion labels to photos, 24 million of which are for selfies. (Frankly, I’m surprised it’s not higher than that, but I suspect many people are still burned by this service’s previous incarnation as part of Google+.) It would take 424 years to swipe through the 13.7 petabytes of photos that users have backed up to the service, Google says. “A year ago, we introduced Google Photos with one mission,” Google vice president Anil Sabharwal writes in a new post to the Official Google Blog, “to be a home for all your photos and videos, organized and brought to life, so that you can share and save what matters.”Īccording to Google, over 200 million people use Google Photos each month. I’ve been using Google Photos since it was announced, and have found it to be the superior photo service available today.

Late last week, Google announced the one-year anniversary of its Google Photos service, noting that it has collectively freed up 13.7 petabytes of phone storage by providing free cloud-based storage for our memories.

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