Changes to Google Workspace storage policies starting June 1, 2021

[themanfromict]

How long until they decide to apply this to education too...

 

Changes to Google Workspace storage policies starting June 1, 2021

 

What’s changing

In 2021, we’ll make some changes to the way we store Google Photos, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard content that may impact your domain. Please see below for more details.

 

Google Photos

Starting June 1, 2021, any new photos or videos uploaded to Google Photos or Google Drive in High quality will count toward the storage limits for users in your domain. Currently, only photos and videos uploaded in Original quality count toward storage quotas. Please note that any photos or videos uploaded in High quality prior to June 1, 2021, will not be impacted by this change and will not count toward storage limits.

 

Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard

Starting June 1, 2021, any newly created Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard files will also count toward the storage limits for users in your domain. Existing files within these products will not count toward storage, unless they’re modified on or after June 1, 2021.

 

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users. Storage limits differ across Google Workspace and G Suite editions, but we estimate that the majority of users will not be affected by these changes. See “Getting Started” below for more information on determining how much storage each user in your organization is allotted.

[localzuk]

Not sure it'd make any difference to education users, as we get unlimited storage.

 

They'd have to limit us first.

[titch]

I hope someone louder than me calls Google up on this.

 

Call me cynical but getting everyone onboard with their photo storage for free, wiping out the competition and then hiking up the price is poor show.

 

It's just not cricket. Hopefully someone should be looking into anti competitive behaviour on this.