If you own an Amazon Echo Show 8 Photos Edition, be prepared for your device to start displaying ads. According to emails posted by customers on and and first reported by Amazon will discontinue its PhotosPlus subscription feature that allows users to upload and display their own photos on the Echo Show 8.
PhotosPlus subscriptions will end on September 12, and Amazon will end support for the photo feature on September 23. Instead, affected customers will have to upload their photos to Amazon Photos with 25GB of storage and learn to live with ads on their home screen.
The feature, which costs $2 per month, allows users to upload their own photos to display on the home screen, turning the voice- and touch-activated device into a digital photo frame. The screen rotates owners’ photos every 30 seconds, a feature that can be left on indefinitely (or as long as the battery can last).
All mention of the PhotosPlus subscription has been removed from Amazon’s website. The Amazon Echo Show 8 Photos Edition is also no longer for sale.
Amazon has had major difficulties with Alexa devices. Last month, Amazon announced that Alexa had cost Amazon more than $25 billion in revenue between 2017 and 2021. Amazon has been trying to recoup some of those losses by . The tech giant is also reportedly working on an advanced version of Alexa, known as Alexa, which could come with a monthly subscription.
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