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Comment by deanclatworthy | Hacker News Reader

Pretty upset about this. I added the app to my mothers phone as it auto backs up everything at high enough quality for her at no cost. Trying to explain to a 65 year old woman with no computing skill how to set up a recurring subscription for online photo storage is going to be a tough ask.

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Google One family subscriptions would be a good fit here. You can manage the subscription and just add your mother to the plan. It's what our family does.

I’ll look into it. Thanks for the tip.

My mother is at the same age and I set up the subscription for her and she never has to think about it. Or, you could share your subscription with your mother.

I did the same but I'm really not worried. How long is it going to take for her to fill 15GB really?

It's funny how people make assumptions about technology use among the elderly - myself included. She got a 16GB iPhone a few years ago and filled it with videos within half a year.

She wants her photos/videos with her at all times, but then she would need at least 256gb phone which she cannot afford the contract for. Google photos was a perfect balance for this, as the app works very very well as a photo browser where everything is in the cloud - meaning she could offload all the photos and videos (at an acceptable quality for her [impaired] vision) from the phone.

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