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Two spots to check right away are your Spam and Trash folders. Anything sitting in either of those still counts against your limit until you permanently remove it. Big attachments like photos and ...

WhatsApp chat backups will count towards your Google account storage starting next month. Since 2018, a Google and WhatsApp agreement allowed users to backup their WhatsApp chats to Google accounts ...

You may want to check your Google account storage situation if you back up your WhatsApp conversations to Drive on Android. In 2018, WhatsApp and Google announced that you could save your WhatsApp ...

Question: My free Google storage is getting full and I’m not sure what I can safely get rid of to free up space. Any suggestions? Answer: Google provides a generous amount of free online storage (15 ...

Google and WhatsApp today announced a change where WhatsApp chat and media backups on Android will “start counting toward your Google Account cloud storage limit” from December 2023 onward. That ...

Google Photos has some annoying restrictions, which raises the question of whether the service will keep your files forever ...

Learn the location of your hidden chat history backups ...

Note that Google Storage is shared across Drive, Gmail, Google Photos, and backups from applications such as WhatsApp. A common storage system also implies that your services may be impacted by ...

Sign up for a new Google account, and you'll receive 15GB of free storage, shared across Photos, Drive, Gmail, and other Google apps. It seems like a lot, but as ...

Google is a software company at heart, and one of its best offerings is Google Photos — a service that lets you back up pictures and videos that you've taken with your smartphone. You can then view, ...

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