It has been the talk of the week: Google Photos allows iPhones to upload photos in HEIC without compressing and without wasting space on our Google Drive. And all because some users did tests by uploading photos and downloading them later to compare both files: they were completely the same, there was no compression. But why was this happening?
It seems Google did not detect the format, and being a file that Weighs half that of a jpeg, did not compress it. But no, Google has found out, thanks to everyone who has talked about this, and they have already said that it is a bug that they are going to correct ...
The truth is, Google could take advantage of the good in HEIC files instead of flagging them out of their free storage. And is that If they are photographs that save you space, why compress them even more… Obviously it is the business that matters… And yes, according to what Google sources have commented to the Android Polices medium, Google has taken this as a Google Photos bug, as iPhones shouldn't be able to upload HEIC images without any compression without these counting in the storage they have in Google Drive.
So you know, the options that we will have then will be to take advantage of the compression in "high quality" of Google Photos and upload all we want to your cloud, take advantage of the 15 GB that they offer us for free (shared with all other Google services), move to a 100 GB plan for 1,99 euros per month, 2 TB for 9,99 euros per month, and many other options that reach up to 30 TB for 299,99 euros per month. Of course, another option that we have, and that I recommend if you move in the Apple ecosystem, is to continue with iCloud since you will have your photos synchronized, without loss of quality, on all your devices.