I can't afford to pay for more storage. Can I simply create a second Gmail account, add it to my phone and start backing up photos to that one and increase my photo storage that way?

Hi everyone. Like a fool, I had been recording videos in 4k for almost a year, and it's completed filled up my Google photos storage (I pay for 200gb).

What should I do?

I downloaded/exported every photo and video from that period, so maybe I could just delete all of them from my Google photos to free up space.

Ideally though I'd like to keep them backed up in Google photos, is there any way to compress them within Google photos whilst keeping the original resolution on my phone?

Or do you have any other ideas? Thanks!

I'm getting a warning telling me that my 15gb space is almost full and Im wondering what happens if its full, are my new pictures and videos going to be saved on my phone storage?

Hi,

I have a basic Google plan with 100GB of storage and a phone with 256GB of storage. My Google storage is almost full (~20% email and Drive, the rest from photos and videos) so I would like to extend to another plan (200GB or 2TB) which would solve my problem.

However, I only have 35% left on my phone storage and it is decreasing fast (videos of 3-5min can be 1GB, is this normal? - but thats another issue).

So I am wondering, what do you do when you have no more storage space left on your phone but can still use space with your Google account? How do you manage that?

Thanks!

my Google storage is over 90% full mostly because of pictures. can I move all my pictures to a different email address and free up space like that? and what is the best way to do that :}

I’m planning on switching to android soon Im getting ahead of myself and bought google photo storage. I started to backup the ~20GB of photo storage on my iPhone to google photos. I want all my photos backed up so I can delete them completely off my iPhone to have available storage. As I started backing up the photos I had available storage yesterday but today I keep getting a pop up saying I’m running out storage. I checked and now google photos is using up my storage. I thought since it’s backed up to google photos cloud it shouldn’t be taking up space on my phone. How do I get google photos to not take up storage? This is what I was avoiding. I want storage on my phone while I save up for the new phone.

Hello, I am sick to death of every time I open my email, getting this alert. I am very aware of the huge amount of photos of my google photos which I’m not very concerned with sliming down. I already pay to upgrade to the 100GB. What I can’t understand is, is it necessary to have my photos on google drive when I have an iPhone and iCloud? Is there a way to just have them backed up via iCloud and off my google account? Please find attached photo to understand where I am coming from.

Thank you in advance 😌😌

Does anyone else keep having this happen? A few months ago I cleared out 100's of photos and videos, and got my storage down to 80% full. last week it was at 85% full. yesterday I deleted a couple old videos of an old girlfriend, and now I'm at 91% full. Is this a total scam to get me to pay for more storage? I'm not a fan of the Apple ecosystem, but this is really making me think about switching.

I got a notification that I have consumed 15 GB of my allotted 15 GB storage. So I started deleting photos from Google photos (used the browser app). I deleted almost 3 GB of photos and emptied the trash too. Still I am seeing notification that I have using the 15 GB of my allotted 15 GB storage. How do I recover the space by deleting photos?

i don't want to delete photos or buy extensions.

can I start buck up to another account? how do I do that?

or do u have another smart solution?

Thanks in advance♥

My Google Photo fills up storage since I take a lot of "pictures" on my iPhone with screenshots, reminders, web pages, hand-written notes and 20 different selfies on which one pic I'm happy with and the rest I delete.
I do not want to backup these kind of photos to Google. Is it all or nothing?

Personally since it happened in 2021 I haven't done anything, but in 2022 I am hitting all my storage max limits. What is everyone doing? Paying? Manual download export > delete? Is there an auto-store somewhere else?

Basically my storage is completely full from google photos and I can't use DOCS or Gmail. I just started paying for icloud so I don't need google photos anymore. I cancelled my 200gb subscription but photos is still taking up all the free storage. How do I unlink google photos from my account or something?

Hi!

I am using Google Photos as my main curated gallery - it means that is the place I keep all the photos I really want to keep. I really like the service and I have a 200 GB plan now. Although if I think about that future amount of data is ever increasing and I need more nad more cloud storage for that. It got me thinking that I put quite a lot effort into curating Google Photos gallery, but there will be a day, when another storage plan is needed and it is too expensive. I am in the point at the moment, where I have to decide - go with to 2TB plan and keep paying for it until it is also full and then get even more expensive plan or find some other solutions. I really don't like the idea for paying for ever with increasing cost. But I also don't know what good solution would be - I like the idea of one library syncing between devices. What would you do?

Hi all,

I wanted to share my thoughts because I feel like Google is f--ing with me to get me to buy the Google One storage plan.

I was on 95% storage for months with no issues. I would just delete emails here and there and was fine.

I decided to do a deep-sweep of my Gmail account last week when i got to 98% full, deleting tens of thousands of emails.

After doing this I got down to around 75% full storage.

Literally two days later I was back at 98%. I had not added anything substantial to my Google accounts in that time period.

Since then I have been continuously deleting everything I possibly could that i could do without, and the number goes down (example 95%) then the next day it's up to 99% and even 100% full!

I've been deleting photos, documents, spreadsheets, emails, videos. I feel like I'm being pushed with no other option but to buy the Google One plan. I know it's pretty cheap but the last thing I want to do is sign up for another subscription service.

Is anyone else having this same issue? I'm truly shocked at how blatant this is.

As title says, I want to move all my google photos to local storage on my Pixel 7. I think I accidentally "freed up space" which means I dont think I have any actual locally stored photos. I cant download anything from the app and deleting photos from my gallery deletes photos from google although backup is off. I don' t see the sync setting on the photos app.

Help is appreciated.

Edit: I do have the files locally stored. Its just that I cant delete the files on Google Photos without them just deleting themselves locally.

To people who continue to use Google photos at storage saver quality despite it counting against your quota (in other words, beyond June 1 2021), how have you managed? Do you...

1. Continue to use Google photos despite it now eating up your 15GB storage space? If so, how much do you have left and will you continue long term?

2. Now use another platform for photo backup? If so, which one? I'm honestly open to this, but haven't really found anything that does what Google photos does. In short, I love the albums, favourites, backup, and just the UI in general.

3. Pay Google? I'm hoping to avoid adding another subscription service if possible.

I'm only asking because I currently use a pixel 5 for unlimited storage saver backup, but this phone is on its last legs and will probably kick the bucket soon.

Hey everyone. I use a Pixel 7a and had just found out that all of my photos were being automatically put in Google Photos app and filling up my 15 gigs of storage. I was wondering if there's a designated Pixel gallery app instead of Google Photos? And if there is, how do I move all my Google Photos files to the gallery app?

I hope I'm overreacting but I've already gone over my photos and deleted what I could, if I do it through google photos to test it then recovering it will make my phone think it's a new photo and put it at the top or I'll lose it permanently again somehow. thanks

update: found out they added an option to do what I wanted, both background and text is black for some reason so it's a little hard to read but it deletes your backup of photos from the phone you're on. I saved the other ones elsewhere just in case and thankfully they weren't touched, but there's still a lot of photos from this phone that have the backed up sign next to them. but it halved my storage so it worked