Backup photos from your iPhone via «Google Photos»

how found Reddit user under the nickname stephensawyer, high quality photos taken on the iPhone, can be stored in "Google Photos"Without loss of quality. This allows you to use the service for backup photos without having to pay for a place in the cloud.

Usually automatic compression of pictures occurs when the synchronization with the application, so they take up less space on the server. But therein lies the rub: HEIC so efficient codec that pinched him from JPG weigh more than the original file.

Google makes no sense to waste space and computing power to increase the size of the file, so the photo is loaded in its original form. Accordingly, you can delete unwanted photos from your phone, knowing that at any moment can download them back without any quality loss. In this case, restrictions on the number of photos that you can add in this way, no.

All you need to do to use this trick - go to "Settings"> "Camera"> "Formats" and make sure that you select "High Performance". In this case, the camera will automatically save the photos in HEIC. If you choose the "most compliant", the files will be saved in JPEG / H.264. Such images weigh more and are compression, so it's not the best option for backup.

It is noteworthy that earlier Google smartphones have the same advantage, but since Pixel 3a their photos, too, have become subject to compression. So ironic but true: iPhone «friendly» with the service better than the flagships from its creator.

Unfortunately, it only works with photos. 4K-video even if they were removed in the MP4 codec HEVC, still shrink up to 1080p for loading «Google Photos."