Google recently made the news for a rather odd “bug” that allows iPhone users to have unlimited cloud storage to back up photos at ‘Original Quality'. The bug is related to Apple's HEIC image format and the size of an HEIC image would actually increase if Google Photos tried to compress it for storage on the cloud. Google has acknowledged the bug, and has promised a fix, but it's unclear how Google will fix the problem and do justice to users of its own smartphones.
A loophole discovered recently allows iPhone users unlimited backups at ‘Original Quality' when using the HEIC image format. The format has been described as ‘too efficient', and Google would actually increase the file size if it tried to compress the image files, apart from wasting computing resources on compressing the billions of images clicked on iPhones and stored in the HEIC format. If users opt for the JPG format, the loophole doesn't work.
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