The Google One app will in future be able to back up content on your phone, whether they are One members or not. The opportunity also comes to iOS users.
Google is now launching a separate feature to back up photos, videos, contacts and calendar entries on iPhone.
The content is stored in your Google Account, thus sharing the space with any other content you may have in Google Drive and Gmail.
Free users have 15 GB of storage with Google, which is possibly a bit thin if you are going to store thousands of photos and videos, but at least more than Apple’s 5 GB with free iCloud storage.
Mostly for photos and videoHowever, iOS users [...]