No, Google Photos isn't going to start 'charging' you for photo uploads and backups starting June 1st.
What they mean to say is that photos uploaded to Google Photos will no longer be exempt from using any of your Google Drive storage capacity. Anything uploaded already is free and clear. Anything you upload from now on uses drive space. So if your Google Drive capacity is 15GB and you upload a lot of video clips, you're going to run out fairly quickly. Thankfully, Google will add tools making it clearer how long you can live with the space you do have at the rate you're uploading. Also, in my humble opinion, Google's storage rate plans are very competitive, with 100GB more available for $2.79 monthly (or $27.99 yearly), or up to 2TB for $13.99 monthly (or $139.99 yearly). If you store your photos using the space saver setting (slightly compressed), you'll save space as well.
I'm hoping that Google finds a way to make it even more affordable to put your stuff in the cloud in the future.
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