Google Photos App Could Add an Option to Compress Existing Files to Get More Storage Space: Report

Google Photographs for Android may quickly carry a brand new function that may clear up a longstanding situation of many customers — the shortage of cupboard space, as per a report. At present, the app permits customers to both retailer pictures in unique high quality or in a ‘storage saver’ high quality which compresses the photographs and movies to create extra space. Nonetheless, this might solely be performed for recordsdata that had been being added to Google Photographs after altering the setting. Now, the Android app is reportedly bringing a function that may permit customers to compress even the prevailing recordsdata.

In accordance with a report by PiunikaWeb (through tipster AssembleDebug), the Google Photographs 6.78 comes with a ‘Get well storage’ possibility which was discovered hidden inside the strings of codes. The tipster was in a position to manually allow the function and it confirmed a brand new setting possibility that allow customers compress the prevailing photographs and movies already saved on the app’s cloud storage. It is a notable function as earlier customers may solely do that by means of the online model of the platform.

Based mostly on screenshots of the function, the setting exhibits up within the Handle storage menu possibility. The function is positioned beneath the Get well storage header and seems with the title Convert photographs to Storage saver. A brief description beneath states, “Get well some storage by switching present Authentic high quality to Storage saver high quality”.

This opens one other web page the place the app explains that compressing the recordsdata on Google Photographs doesn’t have an effect on objects saved or added elsewhere on Google, equivalent to Gmail or Drive. Separate strings hooked up to the function cautioned that the eligible photographs and movies can be completely backed up in diminished measurement, and this can’t be undone, as per the report. Additional, the compression course of can take as much as a few days, relying on the variety of recordsdata and their measurement.

Whereas it isn’t obtainable to customers at current, if it does roll out in future, customers can go to Photographs Settings > Backup > Handle storage > Convert photographs to Storage saver. The function was discovered within the Google Photographs for Android app, nevertheless it is also current within the iOS app.