Why does Google Photos decrease video quality?

While we’ve updated the name, your photos and videos will continue to be stored at the same quality. Photos and videos backed up in Storage saver quality count toward your Google Account storage. Photos are compressed to save space. If a photo is larger than 16 MP, it will be resized to 16 MP.

How do I fix low resolution photos on Google Photos?

Change your upload size

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app .
2. Sign in to your Google Account.
3. At the top right, tap your account profile photo or initial.
4. Select Photos settings Back up & sync. Upload size.
5. Select an upload size.

Why does Google Photos have a lower quality?

Google Photos need some time to fully process uploaded videos. Longer videos will take more time to completely process and analyze. During that time, you may still be able to view those videos, but they’ll only be at a lower quality because processing is still happening in the background.

Why does Google Drive only play high resolution videos?

Instead, 200MB, or perhaps even less, is transferred from the server. Sometimes you may notice that even when you upload a high-quality video, such as 1080p, the player on Google Drive or YouTube only allows you to play at lower resolutions like 360p. This is because Google is still in the process of storing transcoded versions of your file.

Why are my videos uploading in low quality despite?

Longer videos will take more time to completely process and analyze. During that time, you may still be able to view those vids, but they’ll only be at a lower quality because processing is till happening in the background.

Is there a max resolution for Google Photos?

It shows the max available resolution in bottom right just like youtube video. Funny thing is, if i check the “info” of the video in google photos it correctly recognizes it as 1080, problem is it plays at max 360p. Quick update, it did show up as FullHD after a while, so looks like its just matter of waiting and give it sometime to refresh.