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Google’s camera app will make your photos take up less space

Google camera is updated to version 8.1, which is also launched in Spain. This version of the application introduces a major change in the application, which users have been waiting for a long time: a special space-saving mode. This mode will make the photos or videos obtained with the app take up less storage space.

Space issues are common among Android users, so Google’s camera app gives them a hand with this new feature. This special mode will reduce the quality of photos and videos that have been obtained with the app, so that you will be able to use more of the mobile storage space.

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Google camera will save space

The Google camera application adds a function to limit the space that photos occupy on the phone. In the app settings there is a series of space-related options storage, also showing the space occupied so far and the space that is available on the phone. It is in this section where this space saving mode is shown.

Users will be able to activate the space saving mode of the application in this section. This mode combines a series of settings responsible for reduce the size of photos and videos to be done with the phone. The settings for saving photos in RAW format, the resolution of photos and videos, as well as Motion Photos (moving photos) are changed.

This option in the Google camera is presented as a solution to resort to if you have little storage on mobile. In fact, you can configure this mode to deactivate automatically when you have more space on your phone, more than 1 GB. It also has a direct access to Files, to be able to free up space on the phone directly.

This feature is launching first for users with a Google Pixel, using version 8.1 of the application. The new version of the application can now be downloaded from the Play Store.