If you own an Amazon Echo Show 8 Photos Edition, be prepared for your device to display ads. According to emails from customers on and and first reported by Amazon will discontinue the PhotosPlus subscription feature, which allowed users to upload their own images and display them on the Echo Show 8.
PhotosPlus subscriptions will end on September 12, and Amazon will end support for the photos feature on September 23. Instead, affected customers will have to upload their photos to Amazon Photos, which offers 25GB of storage, and learn to live with the ads on their home screen.
The feature, which costs $2 a month, lets users upload their own photos and display them on the home screen. The voice- and touch-controlled screen device becomes a digital photo frame. The screen changes the owner’s photos every 30 seconds. This feature can be left on indefinitely (or as long as the battery lasts).
Any mention of the PhotosPlus subscription has been removed from the Amazon website. The Amazon Echo Show 8 Photos Edition is also no longer available.
Amazon had big problems with Alexa devices. reported last month that Alexa cost Amazon more than $25 billion from 2017 to 2021. Amazon has been trying to recoup some of those losses through . The tech giant is also reportedly working on an enhanced version of Alexa called , which could come with a monthly subscription fee.
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