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Google plans to make many of its enhanced editing tools -- tools powered by AI -- free to all Google Photos users next month.

Google is rolling out some of its more recent photo features to older Pixel phones and Google One members, starting with the Magic Eraser tool.

For those who miss Google's unlimited photo storage, T-Mobile is bringing it back. The cellular provider has announced a Google One cloud plan that promises to allow users to upload unlimited photos included with a T-Mobile subscription.

Google has announced that the Google Photos app is getting expanded functionality for Portrait Blur, which will allow it to be used on many more subjects.

Google One has seemingly noticed that the gap between the previous 2 terabytes (TB) and 10 TB options in its plan was a bit too dramatic and has quietly added a 5TB plan that slides neatly between them.

Degoo is a Swedish cloud photo storage platform that puts emphasis on end-to-end encryption and affordable storage. While it offers 100 gigabytes (GB) of free storage to anyone, its "Ultimate" tier costs just $10 a month for 10 terabytes of cloud capacity with access from mobile apps or any browser.

As Google Photos transitions away from its free unlimited storage model, the company is starting to push users towards higher-paid tiers through disingenuous marketing. In a recent subscriber email, Google goes back on original promises and states "high quality" may not actually be high quality.

In November, Google announced that it was removing easy access to its unlimited photo storage option in Google Photos. Sensing blood in the water, Verizon has launched an unlimited storage option in its own competitor cloud service.

Four strings of code have been found in Photos version 5.18 that seem to indicate that Google is planning to lock key editing features behind the Google One subscription paywall, melding access to the full service into Google's paid platform.