Google recently changed the 15GB of free cloud storage that you get with your Google account to only 5GB for new accounts unless you link a phone number to it. Fortunately, for those not wanting to link a phone number or pay for extended storage, there's still an easy way to free up space in Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos.
Google recently changed the 15GB of free cloud storage that you get with your Google account to only 5GB for new accounts unless you link a phone number to it.
This shared storage is used by Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. Fortunately, for those not wanting to link a phone number or pay for extended storage, there's still an easy way to free up space in these services. To do this, go to your Google account's space is shared between Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos - the. You can see exactly how much storage each service takes when you open the page.
From there, you can go through Google's recommended steps on freeing up storage. You can find and delete large files in Drive, unwanted images and videos that take up tons of space in Photos, and emails with sizeable attachments and spam in Gmail.
In addition to the options immediately visible in the Google One Storage Manager page, you can see even more options to free up storage space for each specific service, be it Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Photos. In Gmail and Google Drive, you can delete items in the Trash, since they count toward total storage until they're permanently deleted. In Google Photos, you can delete unsupported and corrupted image and video files.
You have even more options of clearing space inside each app. In Gmail, you can clear Socials, Promotions, and Updates alongside clearing your Spam and Trash. You can also go through specific emails to delete the ones you don't need, such as those from a long time ago. To make this easier, you can use modifiers in the search bar.
You can specify emails from a long time ago by searching for 'older_than:' and specifying the year, such as 'older_than:1y', or 'before:' and adding a specific date. This can also be done with file size, using 'larger:' and specifying the size, such as 'larger:1mb'. In Google Drive, you can navigate to Storage in the sidebar to see all your files sorted by size.
You can delete the ones that you don't need or ones that have image files or graphics inside them. Files shared with you don't count toward your storage, but any copies you make do. You can search for such files and delete those as well. Like Gmail and Google Drive, Google Photos offers users many ways of easily managing storage space.
You can browse through what the app labels as 'Screenshots' and 'Archived' to delete pictures that you might've taken for one-time use, or search up terms like 'blurry' to manually delete images that you won't be using. There are certain things you can do to ensure your storage doesn't fill up as quickly in the future as well.
Photos and videos take significantly more storage space than emails and documents, so Google Photos is most likely to fill up your account. If you don't want to free up your memory as frequently, you can turn off backup to have more space available for the other apps.
If you don't want to completely stop backing up your photos and videos, you can configure exactly what folders get backed up, since you might not want your screenshots to take up valuable storage space. Similarly, ensuring that your large video files don't get backed up is another way of preserving storage space. Another is built-in file compression.
You can click on the settings icon inside the Photos app or on the browser and configure your backup quality to 'Storage saver,' which compresses the items you back up to save space. In addition to these options, you can also use the Google One Storage Manager page to free up storage space for each specific service.
For example, in Google Drive, you can delete items in the Trash, since they count toward total storage until they're permanently deleted. In Google Photos, you can delete unsupported and corrupted image and video files. You have even more options of clearing space inside each app. In Gmail, you can clear Socials, Promotions, and Updates alongside clearing your Spam and Trash.
You can also go through specific emails to delete the ones you don't need, such as those from a long time ago. To make this easier, you can use modifiers in the search bar. You can specify emails from a long time ago by searching for 'older_than:' and specifying the year, such as 'older_than:1y', or 'before:' and adding a specific date. This can also be done with file size, using 'larger:' and specifying the size, such as 'larger:1mb'.
In Google Drive, you can navigate to Storage in the sidebar to see all your files sorted by size. You can delete the ones that you don't need or ones that have image files or graphics inside them. Files shared with you don't count toward your storage, but any copies you make do. You can search for such files and delete those as well.
Like Gmail and Google Drive, Google Photos offers users many ways of easily managing storage space. You can browse through what the app labels as 'Screenshots' and 'Archived' to delete pictures that you might've taken for one-time use, or search up terms like 'blurry' to manually delete images that you won't be using. There are certain things you can do to ensure your storage doesn't fill up as quickly in the future as well.
Photos and videos take significantly more storage space than emails and documents, so Google Photos is most likely to fill up your account. If you don't want to free up your memory as frequently, you can turn off backup to have more space available for the other apps.
If you don't want to completely stop backing up your photos and videos, you can configure exactly what folders get backed up, since you might not want your screenshots to take up valuable storage space. Similarly, ensuring that your large video files don't get backed up is another way of preserving storage space. Another is built-in file compression.
You can click on the settings icon inside the Photos app or on the browser and configure your backup quality to 'Storage saver,' which compresses the items you back up to save space
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