Yair Levin

Fintech Product Leader (Ex: SoFi, Gusto, MoneyLion, Remitly)

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

Great list. One more Google Photos storage hog that rarely gets mentioned: live/motion photos.

In testing, many shrink roughly 70-80% when converted to stills. They look like normal photos, but often carry a short video clip too, which quietly adds up across years of uploads.

I built Batch for Google Photos to bulk-convert them inside Google Photos: keep the image and date, remove the motion, and move originals to Trash for 60 days.

https://t.co/kUR1QcBt3W

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

One more Google storage trick: live/motion photos can shrink roughly 70-80% when converted to stills.

They look like normal photos, but often carry a short video clip too. I built Batch for Google Photos to bulk-convert them inside Google Photos: keep the image and date, remove the motion, and move originals to Trash for 60 days.

https://t.co/kUR1QcBt3W

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

I feel this.

One hidden culprit: live/motion photos. They look like normal photos, but often carry a short video clip too.

I built Batch for Google Photos to bulk-convert them to stills inside Google Photos. You keep the image and date, remove the motion, and originals move to Trash for 60 days.

Many shrink roughly 70-80% in testing.

https://t.co/kUR1QcBt3W

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

You nailed the mechanism. A Live Photo is a still image plus a short video clip, and most people never chose to store years of those.

One extra wrinkle: a lot of them also end up in Google Photos, which has 1.5B monthly active users. I’ve seen an 8.4MB live photo drop to 1.7MB as a plain still.

Apple may not ship the toggle, so I built the Google Photos side: bulk-convert live/motion photos back to stills, keep the image and date, and move originals to Trash for 60 days.

Doesn’t touch iCloud, but for people living in Google Photos, it’s the missing cleanup workflow. https://t.co/kUR1QcBt3W

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

Solid first move. The catch: once it's all backed up, your cloud storage becomes the next thing to fill. The quiet hog there is Live/Motion photos. Each is a still plus a short video, so they eat far more room than they look. Convert them to plain stills and each file drops about 70-80%, with the image and date kept (originals sit in Trash for 60 days if you want them back).

Google only lets you do it one at a time, so I built Batch to bulk-convert them: https://t.co/kUR1QcBt3W

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

One more big Google Photos storage hog that rarely makes these lists: live/motion photos.

In my testing, many shrink roughly 70-80% when converted to stills. And since Apple introduced Live Photos in 2015 and Google added Motion Photos in 2017, a lot of people now have years of these quietly taking up extra space.

The catch: just turning off motion on the original doesn’t reliably reclaim the storage. To actually shrink it, you need to create a still-only copy, then remove the original live/motion version.

That one-by-one workflow is painful, so I built a tool to do it in bulk inside Google Photos. You keep the still image and date, remove the motion, and originals move to Trash for 60 days. https://t.co/WLdnsMXT53

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

@tech_aarohan @benln @benln - how pathetic is thjis guy - he copied my new tool over the weekend and then respnded to you lol

https://t.co/CzUiXZeLry
https://t.co/Os8TAyGJNv

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

@tech_aarohan This is a weak imitation of Batch for Google Photos, which I launched three weeks ago. Same layout, same panel, same naming. Imitation, etc. 👀https://t.co/CzUiXZeLry

[Yair Levin @levinyair]

AI Enhance looks great. Now we just need bulk enhance for the 300 photos from the same trip.

I built Batch for Google Photos for that exact gap: https://t.co/TX2fcFeG48

It applies Auto Enhance, filters, crop, rotate, Add Description, or Revert across selected photos inside Google Photos. No export or upload.

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[Yair Levin @levinyair]

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[Yair Levin @levinyair]

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[Yair Levin @levinyair]

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[Yair Levin @levinyair]

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- Yair from @GustoHQ -

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