Gmail is a valuable resource for businesses and individuals alike. From sending emails to collaborating with your team to sending opt-in emails to your subscribers, Gmail is used all over the world. However, as with any online service, Gmail has a limit on its storage capacity. The following article discusses just how much information you can store on Gmail, what the Gmail storage limit is and how you can increase Gmail storage limit plans.
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What is Gmail Storage?
Gmail storage is the space given to you when you open a Google account. The space is used across all the Google platforms including Gmail, Google Drive or Contacts. The default storage limit is 15GB with an option to upgrade it. You get a notification once your storage limit is full and any activities carried out after your storage is full won’t be saved to Google.
What is the Gmail Free Storage Limit?
Gmail offers you 15GB of free storage that you can share between Gmail, Drive, Docs, Contacts and other Google products. Google Photos previously was not included in this free limit. But starting June 1, 2021, new photos and videos uploaded to Google Photos will be counted within this 15GB limit as Google updates its storage policy.
How to Free up Gmail Storage Space?
If you have received a notification on low storage space, you can free up your storage space by deleting unnecessary files from your Gmail, Drive or Photos. To delete unwanted files from Google drive and Photos:
1. Login to Drive or Photos
2. Select all your unnecessary files.
3. Right click on any of the files and click on Remove.
4. The files are now moved to the Trash folder. Go to the folder and select the files again.
5. Right click on the files and click on the Delete Forever option.
Your files are now deleted forever and the storage space held by those files is freed up.
You can also delete unnecessary files from your Gmail inbox. To do so, login to your Gmail account and go to your search box. In the box, type – Larger: 5m. This query will search for any files larger than 5MB. Now you can delete those emails or files if you don’t need anymore.
How to Increase Gmail Storage Limit?
15GB of storage is not enough for people who are very active across various Google platforms and upload tons of photos and videos to Photos or Drive. To solve this, Google introduced pro monthly and yearly rental plans that users can purchase to fulfil their storage thirst.
Gmail Storage Pricing
The recommended 100GB of Gmail storage plan is available for just $1.99/month or $19.99/year. You can also purchase the 200GB of Gmail storage plan for as low as 2.99/month or $29.99/year. If you still need more storage limits, the 2TB storage plan is available for $9.99/month or $99.99/year. All of these pro plans include access to Google experts and option to add extra family members.
You can increase your Gmail storage limit from Google One Storage.
Alternatively, you can also create another Gmail account to get an extra 15GB of storage.
