Digital photo frame company Nixplay cut its free cloud storage to almost nothing

One of the astir frustrating realities astir modern exertion products is that portion truthful galore of them tin get breathtaking caller features via the internet, they tin suffer them conscionable arsenic easily. That happened to owners of Nixplay astute integer photograph frames this week erstwhile they were deed with a previously announced update the institution said would “remove premium features and trim limits,” including dropping unreality photograph and video retention to conscionable 500MB.

Nixplay has offered escaped unreality retention for a agelong clip — here’s a 2016 PCMag review that mentions an 8-inch framework that came with 10GB of abstraction for nary other charge. In summation to losing higher retention limits, the institution has besides nixed the previously escaped ability to sync a azygous Google Photos album. The company’s announcement said that those whose existing escaped accounts already transcend the caller 500MB bounds would spot immoderate contented “restricted from sharing oregon viewing connected a framework without editing your contented oregon upgrading your subscription.”

People connected the Nixplay subreddit aren’t blessed astir the change, with posts complaining astir the changes affecting existing customers alternatively than lone caller ones oregon calling it a scam. One user’s begrudging post says they’ll subscribe, but that they’re lone doing truthful due to the fact that they’ve accrued “a fewer 1000 photos successful the cloud” and don’t privation to thatch their partner, who hates computers, however to usage a caller app.

Nixplay’s paid subscriptions outgo either $19.99 a twelvemonth for 100GB of photograph retention (Nixplay Lite) oregon $29.99 per twelvemonth for unlimited photograph retention (Nixplay Plus). Both tiers besides see the quality to sync with Google Photos, though it’s not wide if that diagnostic works the aforesaid arsenic it did before, fixed a caller alteration Google made that broke however galore integer frames sync with its photos service.