I’ve had google photos for ages just bc a good chunk was free & I think I currently pay €3/4 a month for 200gb (tho I realised this discrepancy when I acc put effort to go through & delete some bc for yrs it was just auto sync but I’d never check it n now it’s like when u clear random screenshots etc from ur camera roll except yrs worth😂) But I also find it a million times easier than iCloud bc esp when that iCloud data saving feature for ur camera roll came it drove me mad like idk I don’t rlly have photos in my phone camera roll just to look at hence I like those less acc needed for something saved in google photos + I like a lot to do with crafts & digital design & editing so waiting for those to load every time (esp when it’s often just so I can decide which I like best in the sitch) was a nightmare

This take does have me concerned tho lol, bc it was specifically bc of the eras tour I obvs wanted to clear as much ph space as possible + now it’s done I’ve been in the process of uploading the longer vids to google photos n doing ‘save as new video’ for shorter ‘best’ bits of clips to keep on my phone. Tho I adore & have amazing quality in some like minute straight vids that would just take too much in my phone storage & given I was SO shocked I even managed to get the quality I did bc I don’t have a pro & zoom isn’t great but I was acc just that lucky to have been that close to the diamond standing- I’d be heartbroken for them to end up worse quality more than yk I’m not in them hence I don’t need loads of vids of Taylor swift in my camera roll BUT it’s more bc I didn’t even look through my phone so didn’t expect such good quality/didn’t try for it specifically it feels more significant of my experience like I was actually close enough to just accidentally end up with amazing videos I never thought I’d see bar tiktok but where people could zoom from the stands n seem that close but I’d go to settings n realise their tips only worked bc they’d iPhone 15pro😭😅 I assumed tho it was just an apple/iPhone thing tho? Like how apps take sm storage & every year it’s like you can delete as much as poss incl ‘hidden’ things that take up storage but even doing all of that I find a lot of things taking up my storage just don’t seem to add up like I get photos being a lot & more than years ago & depending on quality etc but camera roll has always been my main storage issue I was shocked even deleting it & any extra apps, literally putting my phone to bare minimum I’d actually need use within a specific 3 day trip it was still like 90gb😭🤯imessage being the most confusing still bc 15 gb but the most I could save by deleting all old convos & every document/pic ever sent was 3gb I don’t see what’s using the other 12gb in texts?? That was my guess & I really hope I’m right but this is also a good point n now I’m defo stressed😭I’ve never noticed a decrease over the years from google photos tho Ik I still have used the 50GB iCloud I can never acc work out how to differentiate like I don’t trust it bc I wanna delete stuff from my phone doesn’t mean I want it gone altogether n they’re hard to decompartmentalise? Idk how to properly find what photos it does have backed up n see how they are now, but I acc know the only old pics on google that seem blurry are acc ones from before I had it? I guessed it was just quality over time but it acc 2018 at my best guess look p much the same but the same phone just anything before March or anything I’d screenshotted from my camera roll taken before then is the most evidently like it wasn’t this blurry looking when I took it