Google Drive offers users 15 GB of storage for free, but this space is generally not enough if we use Google applications to store our Cloud photos and videos, our files and emails. The backups of WhatsApp also occupy part of this precious reader storage space, which until a few years ago has not occurred.
Google photos wants to help us Release the storage space in a simple and easy waySomething that will come very well to users who do not pay more space in Google's cloud. In a few steps, you can recover storage in your Drive account and, at the same time, get rid of unwanted files or you no longer need it.
How to release storage in “photos” eliminating unnecessary or very large files
The application of “photos” has recently been updated to a new version, adding interesting tools for storage management. The idea of the application is to help us get rid of these photos or videos that unnecessarily occupy the space of the cloud. The two garbage files and the files that occupy too much space Storage
The latest version of the 'Photos' application (version 7.29.0.760757882) has enabled a new section for all devices that allow you to find the files much more quickly that people generally choose to choose to eliminate, for example, poor quality photos or screenshots. These tools had started to reach certain users, but now they are available for all devices with Android 6.0 or later.
Access to these “cleaning” storage tools is very simple:
- We access the “Photos” application
- We click on our avatar (the photo in the upper right corner)
- We select 'Manage storage'
- And finally, we access the various options to publish a storage space on Google Photos
For example, we can access the screenshot section to eliminate all old taken or that we no longer need. We can also Delete all non -focused photosThe “photos” will detect poor quality photos and we can delete them all with a single touch, although it is also advisable to look a little what we are going to erase, to avoid erasing a photo that we consider as should not be erased.
Finally, we can also see the Big files, photos and videos They occupy too much space in the cloud. Here we will have to select what we want to eliminate.
It is important to remember that these tools allow us to eliminate files in the cloud stored in “photos”, but not on the device. That is to say what we do is Release the cloud storage space, but we will not eliminate photos or videos stored on our device locally. If we want to do it, we will have to use another tool. Google's “or” files “(or files”) are generally an excellent alternative.
There are several ways to publish and save Google Cloud storage space and continue to enjoy free space, and among them, one of the best ways is to get rid of the files that unnecessarily occupy space.
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