Public Service Reminder: Google Photos Free Storage Ends in 15 Days

As I sit here uploading every spare photo I can find to Google’s photo storage platform before June 1st, I thought it might be a good reminder to everyone else to do the same.

I take a lot of photos.

I mean… a lot. According to Google Photos, I have over 121,000 images stored in their servers. Most- if not all- are stored completely free of charge, as for a long time I’ve utilized Google’s free “High Quality” storage option, regardless of whether my photos were being snapped on an Android device or an iPhone (or even a real camera… remember those?).

As we all know, that beautiful free storage option is going away in just a couple of short weeks. And that’s a huge bummer.

Since this news broke, I’ve considered moving my photos to another storage platform- iCloud made the most sense, as most of my current gadgets are Apple-made- but I always run into the same wall: every service is going to charge for me to store my crap on their servers. And I’ve got a lot of crap.

So instead, I’m uploading every photo that I can possibly find on my computers to Google’s storage system before the reign of free storage ends. If you…