How to Free up Space in Google Photos

Now that Google Photos no longer offers free unlimited storage, managing your photos is more important than ever before. Whether you’removing all your pictures to iCloud, or switching to one of the manyGoogle Photos alternatives, you will have to clear up some storage. So, if that’s what you’re wondering about doing, here are the best ways to free up space in Google Photos.

Free up Space in Google Photos (2021)

You can use Google Photos’ new storage management tool or the tool offered in Google One to manage your cloud storage. We’ve included instructions for both and you can pick the one that suits your needs. Without further delay, let’s get started with the steps involved to delete unwanted media from Google Photos. As usual, you can use the table of contents below to navigate to the section relevant to your needs.

Use Storage Management Tool on Google Photos Mobile

Whether you’re using an iPhone or an Android device, you can clean up your photo library by following these simple steps.

Use Storage Management Tool on Google Photos Web

If you’re trying to clear out your Google Drive account storage, you don’t really need to pick up your phone to clear out your photos. You can do it from the web app as well. Here’s how.

Use Google One Storage Management Tool

You can also use Google One’s storage management tool to free up space on Google Photos or across your Google account. Follow these steps to get started:

Delete Images and Videos from Google Photos

Well, that’s how you can free up space in Google Photos and make room for new files. You can use the built-in tools to easily and quickly get rid of unwanted and duplicate photos or videos that are eating into your storage. Also, I would recommend that you take a look at your Gmail storage because it might be eating into a lot of your account’s storage quota. Anyway, if you need more storage, you could consider getting Google One subscription that starts at $1.99 (Rs.130 in India) per month for 100GB of storage.

So, did you free up space in Google Photos using these methods? How much storage space did your reclaim? Let us know in the comments.

Subin B

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.

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