iPhone Users May Get Unlimited Original-Quality Storage On Google Photos But Not Pixel 4 Users

We have always known Pixel smartphones for their camera prowess and the Pixel 3 launched last year has been considered to have the most significant camera. Google had provided Pixel users with unlimited original-quality storage on Google Photos for storing all these photos.

But, this year there is an ironic twist with the launch of the Pixel 4 as that functionality has been wiped out, a loophole in Google Photos has given this unlimited storage option at original quality to iPhones.

Reddit user stephenvsawyer, has found out that if we save our photos clicked on an iPhone as HEIC/HEIF, we get free unlimited storage of these pictures at the original resolution with Google Photos. The size will be original because the output size would be even higher if Google tries to compress these files, shared a user. This loophole is only applicable to photos and not videos as the latter is saved only in 1080p.

"With all modern iPhones shooting photos in HEIC format, which is smaller than even Googles compressed JPG files, iPhones therefore get free unlimited ORIGINAL quality backups simply because it would cost Google both storage space (because if Google tried to compress iPhones HEIC photos they would actually become larger) and computing power (because Google doesn't need to compress and process all of the billions of photos iPhones backup), "said stephenvsawyer.

Though if you are using a Pixel 2, 3 or 3a, you need not worry because Google is giving you original-size cloud backup for life.