Google Photos for Android is getting updated. Google has just announced that an updated version of the app will be made available soon. The update will enable users to free up storage spaces on their mobile phones by offering an option to bulk delete their photos through the "Free Up Space" button.

Aside from that, an option to downgrade images' quality will also be made available for the web version of Google Photos. This option will also give the user an easy way to free up space on their Google account, especially if they are already approaching their storage limits.

So how does this Free Up Space work? First, the user must visit the settings area. Once they are there, they just have to tap the Free Up Space button in order to begin the mass deletion of their photos from their phones. Google says that to avoid accidental tap mistakes, a message of confirmation asking the user whether they really want to delete their photos will be asked by the app.

The users also need not worry as the Free Up Space feature will only delete their photos that have already been saved online. So the users don't have to worry if they accidentally delete their only copy of certain images.

Google Photos is also introducing a new "Assistant" card to highlight their latest features. The new assistant will alert users, every time they are near their storage limit, to delete their photos. The bad news is this feature is only available to users who have back up their photos in their original quality.

In addition to these new features, Android users will also be receiving a patch that allows them to delete their photos from SD card enabled devices. This, according to Google, was due to a bug which has now been addressed through the new version.

Another big update will soon be arriving on Google Photos. The update is aimed at helping consumers control how they use their storage capacity on Google's cloud service. If a user is uploading their photos in "original" quality, they can change its quality to "high" in order to save space as high quality files don't count against a consumer's Google storage quota.

And if for some reason they regret that decision, they can just use the "Recover Storage" option on the web which will automatically downgrade the photos involved for the user.

For now, the updates have been rolling out for all Android users and tomorrow for web users. For the meantime, iOS users have no access to this feature. However Google reassures everyone that similar features will soon be made available.

Google Photos is Google's photo management utility that has spun out of their Google+ service. It grew to have about 100 million monthly active users who uploaded about 50 billion photos, making it one of the popular photo management apps today.