How to fix your Google storage space forever... for free!

HOW TO GET UNLIMITED GOOGLE PHOTOS STORAGE using Partner Sharing:
HOW TO DOWNLOAD ALL YOUR GOOGLE PHOTOS & VIDEOS:
HOW TO FIX GOOGLE STORAGE SPACE FULL PROBLEM ON YOUR PHONE:
IF GMAIL IS TAKING UP YOUR GOOGLE SPACE, IDEAS FOR REDUCING:

How can you recover Google storage on your phone? Are you getting warning messages your Google Storage is full? Here's how to clear your Google storage without deleting your photos, videos and files PLUS how to increase your Google Photos storage for free!

I fix the Google Account Storage is Full problem by using the "Clean up space" options to clear my Google Drive storage using my desktop, but if you use the links below you can clear Google Photos storage in phone. Then I use a "Recover Storage" option to reduce ALL the photos and videos in my Google Photos to Storage Saver Size. There is no option to see what photos & videos are in my Drive at Original Size, so the only way is to compress all the photos and videos to free up some storage.

Finally, I show a way to create a Google Account for storage JUST for Google photos... and set up my phone to upload and sync photos and videos with this new Google Account. We can then use Partner Sharing to share those Google Photos and Videos with my personal Google Account.

If this video helps, LEAVE A COMMENT below to say hi - I'd love to hear from you.

MORE ON PARTNER SHARING
Video here!
If you turn on Partner Sharing on your phone, with yourself
When you change the account in the phone back to your original account that the new account has made a request to share with

When you accept that invitation
You get an option that says
"Auto-Save pictures from xxx (new account)"
"Include xxx's pictures in your photo grid, Memories and search results by automatically saving some or all content"
And button marked "Get Started"

Click this and it brings up an option to select and confirm
Turn On Auto-save so you never miss a photo from xxx
Automatically save certain photos to enjoy them in your photos view, memories and search results.
The photos that you save won't count towards your storage, as long as your partner continues to share them with you through Partner Sharing."

Choose what to auto-save
- Save all Photos
- Only save photos of selected people
- Don't save any photos.

I select Save all photos.
I think then you can delete photos in your new account, and they're still kept in your first account without taking up storage space quota. Back up to a hard drive to be safe.

THIS Q&A MIGHT ALSO HELP:
My new account has now synchronised with my phone but now I've got 2 accounts with the same photos on. Also if I backup to my computer and delete from my phone then the photos will delete from my accounts. Or if I delete photos from the original account then it also deletes them from my phone..aaaarr what am I doing wrong?

So sorry to hear this.
You can only be logged into one account at a time if that helps.
This is what I would do if it were me:
If you can backup to a computer, thats safest to keep them safe.

Turn off backup on both accounts.
Go into your old account and delete what you need to bring you under 15gb so that account works again - either from your phone or directly in Google Photos.
Don't switch on backup on your old account again

In the New account, delete everything or start a new new account.

Delete pictures from your phone, while logged into the new account.
Turn on backup so new photos are backed up to new account.

Unhelpfully google photos offers option to just backup or backup & sync (so deletions are mirrored in Google Photos and your phone) and it's hard for me to see which has been selected.

Sorry again this is not straightforward & everyone's settings are different.

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GOOGLE PHOTOS RECOVER STORAGE:

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0:00 How to clear Google Drive storage in phone
1:12 How to reduce Google Drive storage to free up space
2:47 How to reduce size of photos and videos in Google Photos
5:24 How to increase Google Photos storage for free

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HOW TO DOWNLOAD *ALL* YOUR GOOGLE PHOTOS & VIDEOS:
HOW TO FIX GOOGLE STORAGE SPACE FULL PROBLEM ON YOUR PHONE:
youtu.be/R_f1em_7mjU
IF GMAIL IS TAKING UP YOUR GOOGLE SPACE, IDEAS FOR REDUCING:
youtu.be/sNs5dhcv0F4

THE LINKS YOU NEED ARE:
GOOGLE ONE site
GOOGLE PHOTOS RECOVER STORAGE:

IF GOOGLE PHOTOS SAYS "BACKING UP TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT"...
To change the account it backs up to...
Click on your avatar on the top right hand corner
This brings up a full screen menu
Scroll down to Photos settings, click on it
On 'backup' at the top of this menu, click on backup
Where it says the account it's backing up to (your old account?), click on the name
This should bring up a list of accounts you can choose - choose the new account here.

If the new account isn't showing here,
Click on the avatar on the top right hand corner on the home screen of Google Photos
This brings up a full screen menu, click on your account name at the top (which has a triangle in a circle next to it)
Scroll down to 'add another account'
sign in to your new account
This new account should be in the pull down in the first paragraph above

Hope this makes sense or helps
Let me know if it does or doesnt work
Good luck!

[ghayassalem]

Thanks Neil, My Google storage was maxed out. I followed your suggestion of uploading my 10 years plus of photos and videos in the compressed format, and it went down by HALF!. I have now added at least a couple of years to my 15G of Google storage. Can't thank you enough. I'm telling my friends about this. Thanks again!

[martiendejong]

I just want you to know that I have like 20 google accounts now

[cameralabs]

Good plan Neil, but with one small catch! When you set up a new account and tell it to backup your photos, it will backup ALL the photos that are stored on your phone, not just the most recent year, which could mean several year's worth, so you'll be in the same position you were when you started. If you want an account for each year, for example, you'd need to make sure your phone ONLY had this year's photos on it. Then you'd need to delete them all from your phone before starting a new account for the next year. Also beware some services sync rather than backup, which means when you delete on your phone, it deletes them online too. The moral being to always backup photos onto a separate physical drive somewhere before doing anything clever!

[amaterasu]

Such a gem of a video this is. Really helped me get from 15 GB to 8 GB in a matter of minutes

[atangles]

I've mustered my courage to follow these steps and resolved this perpetual darn storage limit anxiety once and for all. This is gold, thank you Neil.
With my years of photos safely stored in the old google account, I set my new account for photos 2024 onwards.

To save the new account from duplicating all photos, I transferred them all out of my phone into an external storage disk, leaving only 2024 photos in there - this is done before changing backup setting to the new account in google photo on the phone.

I can now toggle between 2 accounts in google photo to see the old and new. Best things ever and I hope more can benefit from your video...Thank you!

[sayididit]

So I'm an amateur videographer. Each time I do an event, I would upload the footage to my Google Drive and then share it with the client. However this wasn't working out so good because the files would be eating up my storage. And after leaving the footage on my Drive for over a month I delete it and very next day the client wants to know where it went. So, I came up with a new system. Each time I do an event, I make a new Google account (sometimes two) based on the name of the event or the client, and upload the footage to that Drive. I then share the username and password with the client giving them full control of the account to do what they want with. Now the footage is not taking up my space nor the client's space and can stay there for eternity (or until Google decides to remove unused accounts etc...) I think it's a pretty smart idea.

[jimtanner]

Thanks Neil from a lawyer who fights for consumers, small business, and constitutional rights for people . My first review online it's truly unfortunate that a company that got millions of Americans with what we were told was free. Then that company sells our information at our expense ...No more I urge everyone to pass this information on and on. Big thanks

[adithyaramamurthy]

@Neil..I have been trying for the past year to fix the storage issue but no one on YouTube has provided a step by step instruction better than you.. You are awesome, thank you

[TonaldDrump兀]

so basically, i'm a screenshot guy, i tale ss of everything i see, and i've like 13k ss on my phone, since morning of 30th july(today) my phone stopped acessing any screenshots ! i was like so so pissed, and i came here, and it helped me a lot . now i'm taking ss of this youtube channel to remember that how it helped me .

[gregorylewis]

Thank you Neil, this was fantastic! I have been struggling trying to keep below the limit and this made a big difference. Really appreciate you taking the time to put this video and instructions together!

Next up is trying to figure out how to reduce the size of my Gmail while still having access to the emails offline!

[ARIADNARB]

If I can buy for some price +5 or +10 Gb of storage for all my life I would do so. But I do not want to buy subscription for years for my photos or stupid videos.

[dbknox]

Neil - very helpful video as my wife has been dealing with a space issue on her account for months now, and we are too thrifty to buy additional storage. I went to her Google Photos and chose to compress her existing photos as suggested. The process is still running, but has already saved .5 GB. Something else interesting happened. When her account was nearly full, Google was keen to offer addition storage (I think 100 GB) for $1.99 per month. The moment that I hit the compress button, the offer changed to a "Special" of $.49 per month for the same amount of storage. Google knows that there is a link between demand and price, I guess.

[MuhammedNalhirNazim]

Thank you. My desktop is now working on compressing the photos. BTW, I also like your style - full of smiles. A happy personality. God Bless you!

[goldentuskssdnbhd]

Hi, I'm from Malaysia, a Training Provider company. Love your video. Clear and very informative. Thank you for this video!

[advaklein]

Neil YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!
And from now on also my hero.
I asked so many people for help dealing with my "out of storage" situation and no one had the solution.
Thank you so much!

[kimzacho]

I watched a lot of videos, and I must say you are the one who is giving usable
value here. Cool Work!

[dimosk]

Excellent advice. I have this setting enabled since forever on my Google photos. The quality is almost the same wjen viewing on my phone. I can't even remember how I discovered this option. Probably when I first got the message that my account was full. I also can't remember how many friends I've helped with the exact same issue. Glad there is a simple video for people to follow and enjoy unlimited space!!!

[shrutibk]

Thanks Neil for figuring out this way to regain back the space in google storage! you have saved us from deleting our precious photos and also the unnecessary google storage subscription. Sharing this video with my friends so that it helps them.

[krujuice]

I could definitely see this working, however, make sure you have removed the old photos from your phone to exterior storage, or it will keep backing up All the photos.