Reduce the size of photos for storage FP4 (2022) / google limiting drive images

[y_cho]

Google 12 monthes ago started counting images on google drive.
Now I keep spending my sunday deleteing pictures
I see two things :

1. I would like to ask for 1080P and 720P picture mode. Since it is OK for 99% of hwat I do. This would take 4 times less space than actual 8Mpixel. This would already solve it for me

2. 25% of my pictures are for sharing . Would it be possible at snap to say keep it for sharing 1 month. Like a specific button Snap N’ Share ?

Note: There is a closed post concerning image size.

Nouvelles règles de stockage pour Google Photos - Aide Google Photos

[yvmuell]

Which closed topic we could reopen and merge?

Else maybe have a look at OpenCamera as you can change resolution in the settings in this App

[y_cho]

Thanks for your answer I didn t know of Open camera.
Also I beleive photo has become one of the main selling point of smartphone over the past 10 years.
I believe its a wrong move no not take care of this part and inovate in this area.
Fairphone has been putting great effort in this area imporving hardware and software , that s great.
Now it would be muuuuuuch better to have a good quality / feature for the photos from Fairephone themself in the ROM.
Google changing theire photo backup policy will impact almost all of your users, please chekc it out

Reduce the size of photos for storage

Hello I need help. I need to reduce the size of photos for storage because I save them on google photos and in a month it has collapsed. for example, a one and a half minute video takes up 250 MB, a picture takes up 10MB. in my on my old cell phone a video takes up 17 MB and a photo takes up 1,6MB. I don’t have enough space to store videos and photos that are so heavy. I need help what I have to do. Thanks

[Razem]

Isn’t it easier to just set the Upload size to Storage saver at https://photos.google.com/settings?

[yvmuell]

You are still mixing up forum and support. Here is the forum and we cant change anything. And most people want high resolution pictures and many dont use Google drive…

Edit: as the other topic is about the FP3 and the Camera app has different and more setting options as far as I remember I would not merge

[y_cho]

You are right , many persons have many different needs x) Just my whishlist here …
Now in my family and friends I have at least half of the person that have “data storage issues”… one of the major issue (with battery) why they usally change phone. Some are on apple other android, samething…things get saturated… and most people don t get what is wrong…they end up buying a new phone and a upgrade their google account.
But could be just the persones around me.

For now I just deactivated the google photo saving. Otherwise I will be unable to receive emails and use google doc. Which for my work pipline is a major problem.