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Google One prepares to let you pick which apps should bypass its VPN

Google One prepares to let you pick which apps should bypass its VPN

May 28, 2021
Google One is one of the lesser-known services of Google. For starters, it’s a paid cloud storage service from Google, with plans ranging from 100GB all the way up to 30TB. With Google Photos set to drop free unlimited backups from June 1, there’s been renewed interest surrounding Google One and its various plans. Storage...
Google Photos for Android gets advanced video editor and more premium features

Google Photos for Android gets advanced video editor and more premium features

February 11, 2021
Last September, Google added more powerful photo editing features to Google Photos. Now, the search giant is introducing more robust video editing features that will allow Android users to make more granular adjustments to videos. These same features were previously added to Google Photos for iOS. With the update, Google Photos on Android now has more...
Google One’s most expensive storage plans get a 50% price cut

Google One’s most expensive storage plans get a 50% price cut

December 16, 2020
Google has reduced the price of its higher capacity Google One cloud storage tiers, a few months after announcing changes to the free storage component of Google accounts, which saw it remove the free unlimited photo backups from Google Photos, instead, applying them to your remaining Google Drive capacity, along with Google Workspace documents, which...
Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more will start counting towards your Google Account storage next year

Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more will start counting towards your Google Account storage next year

November 11, 2020
Google today announced important policy changes that will affect consumer accounts. Beginning June 1, 2021, files that are created in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more will count toward your 15GB of complementary account storage. The good news is any existing files within those services won’t count toward your storage. However, if they’re modified on or...
Google Photos will lock Color Pop behind a Google One paywall for photos without depth information

Google Photos will lock Color Pop behind a Google One paywall for photos without depth information

November 6, 2020
Throughout the year, we’ve seen evidence Google might introduce premium editing features to Google Photos that would be locked behind a paywall. At first, we thought that Google would introduce new editing features that required a Google One membership, but now it looks like the company is already testing locking existing features behind a paywall. Shortly after...
Google Photos 5.18 confirms premium editing features for Google One members

Google Photos 5.18 confirms premium editing features for Google One members

November 6, 2020
Google has been working on adding premium editing features to Google Photos for the last couple of months. Back in March this year, we first spotted evidence of this feature in an APK teardown of Google Photos v4.45. At the time, we learned that the features would only be offered to Google One members. In...
Google One’s 2TB plan now comes with a VPN for online privacy

Google One’s 2TB plan now comes with a VPN for online privacy

October 29, 2020
Google on Thursday introduced a new perk for select Google One subscribers: access to a virtual private network, or VPN. If you’re on a Google One 2TB plan (which costs $9.99 per month), you can get access to an extra layer of network protection on your Android device — and it comes at no extra...
Google One app for Android now offers free phone backups

Google One app for Android now offers free phone backups

July 29, 2020
Google One, Google's unified cloud backup service, offers subscribers the ability to automatically back up device data, multimedia messages, photos, and videos from their Android devices. Starting today, that same feature is being extended to all Android users free of charge. The backup feature is a convenient and worry-free way to preserve your texts, contacts, apps,...
OnePlus 8 pre-launch leaks reveal Google One promotion, André limited edition cases, Pop-up box, more

OnePlus 8 pre-launch leaks reveal Google One promotion, André limited edition cases, Pop-up box, more

April 13, 2020
The highly anticipated OnePlus 8 series — namely the OnePlus 8 and the OnePlus 8 Pro — are finally launching tomorrow. We already know in detail what both devices will look as well as what they're packing inside. Both phones are launching with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor, multi-camera arrays, and curved displays with hole-punch...
Google Pixel 4 Tips reveal “Pro Sessions” in Google One, Social Share in Google Camera, more

Google Pixel 4 Tips reveal “Pro Sessions” in Google One, Social Share in Google Camera, more

October 3, 2019
The. Google. Pixel. 4. Just. Can't. Stop. Leaking. Yesterday, 9to5Google brought us a huge number of leaked marketing videos and renders. While there wasn't a lot of new information to learn since the 2019 Pixels have leaked so much already, those marketing images did provide us our highest quality look at the Google Pixel 4 features...
Several new features have been found in the Google Home, Google Photos, Google One, and Google News apps

Several new features have been found in the Google Home, Google Photos, Google One, and Google News apps

September 19, 2019
Google is constantly adjusting and updating its wide assortment of apps. Every week it seems like people are finding small little tweaks here and there. One person who is always digging to find unreleased features is Jane Manchun Wong. She recently shared a handful of discoveries from the Google Home, Google Photos, Google One, and...
Google One can now backup and restore your photos, videos, and MMS

Google One can now backup and restore your photos, videos, and MMS

September 12, 2019
Backing up the content on your phone is a very important thing to do. Having tools that make it easy will ensure that you never get stuck in a bad situation. Google has tweaked the way backups in Android work and may be removing the fan-favorite ADB backup and restore tool. Now, they are announcing...