Also in the news, Google finally added a "compress all my photos" button. (Currently on the web version of Google Photos, soon to be in the app.) This takes all your "original" photos on Google (but not on Google Drive) and replaces them with "high quality" versions, compressed with their proprietary whatever, and charges you nothing towards your quota.

Since I keep my originals elsewhere, this is a no-brainer for me, and it gave me back 18GB of quota headroom.

I just wish they'd had it before I hit the quota ceiling and Gmail was giving me "pay up or give up" warnings.