Yesterday, Google Drive for iOS surprised with an update that incorporates a great feature, the automatic upload of our photo roll, and of great significance because it is one more step towards the end of your social network, Google +.
Automatic copies of your film in Google Drive
If he doesn't just convince you iCloud as the best place to store your photos or simply not to expand your storage plan beyond the free 5GB it offers us Apple , the 3.5.0 app update Google Drive for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has prepared the ground for something that more than one will find very very interesting:
Automatic backup of photos and videos from Camera Roll
This new feature is not yet available because, as the file itself indicates, "it will be launched in the next few weeks" however, the step has already been taken and implies the definitive separation from service Google Photos regarding the social network Google+, something of which already on August 3 of last year our colleague Rubén informed us in Googled, with the more than evident intention that users use this photo service even though they are not users of the social network, which leaves the door wide open to the more than probable end of Google + that would not have reaped, and that is Obviously, the success desired by the company because, if from now on you will no longer need to have an account on this social network to make a copy of your photos, there will be far fewer users who make active use of it while Google Drive enjoys great popularity and I use what could be spread in this way until Google Photos.
Even with all this, Google Drive is not the only alternative to iCloud to make copies of our photos, even with automatic uploading of our film. The available options are really varied such as Flickr with 1TB free, MEGA with 50GB free, One Drive, DropBox and many others so if you are not convinced by iCloud, much less Google, you have a wide range to choose from.