A little over a decade ago, any user of Google He was more than satisfied with the storage space provided by the company’s accounts. Google had launched the first of its services that a user account required, Gmailin 2004with 1 GBan amount well above what they offered Microsoft and other competitors then. Google was adding services in later years and In 2013 he began to merge them. Gmail, who by then offered 10 GB of free space, joined Google Drive and Google photoswhich added 5 GB, to Leave the free accounts of Google in 15 GB, number that has not been moved since then.
Twelve years later, those 15 GB are a ridiculous figure for most users that limit the functionality of Google accounts. In its default configuration, Google photos automatically synchronize the images and videos that the user has on their mobile with Google cloud storage. But, of course, any new mobile has at least 128 GB of storage and, little by one is fond of the subject, Soon it runs out of cloud space and without the possibility that the backup copy is complete, which also affects what you have in Google Drive and Gmail. The solution that Google has given during these years is that the user subscribes to Google One, but now offers another better option.
Google has added the power option Delete images and photos stored in the cloud without these changes being synchronized on the mobile. That is, you can remove them from the Google account without this means that they are also eliminated on your device and thus recover cloud storage space. This novelty first reached the users of the app for iOS in December and Now it is also available for Android.
How to recover space in Google account without eraseing images on the mobile
With this option, you can recover storage space in your Google account Without having to sacrifice images and videos on your mobile or have to download them on the computer to maintain a copy. To activate it, make sure you have the updated app and follow these steps:
- Open Google photos On your mobile.
- Play in the image of your profile and, in the emerging window, select Photo settings.
- Touches in Backup.
- Show down and select Undo the backup of this device. Google warns you that you are going to undo the backup, but what you have stored on your device will not be affected and that the backup will be automatically deactivated at the end.
- Activate the box I understand that the photos and videos of this device will be deleted from Google Photos.
- Touches in Delete Google Backup Pictures Photos.