HOW TO USE PARTNER SHARING FOR UNLIMITED GOOGLE PHOTOS: ua-cam.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/v-deo.html If this video helps, LEAVE A COMMENT below to say hi - I'd love to hear from you. You can also help me by clicking THUMBS UP or get to 10,000 subscribers with SUBSCRIBE here thanks! ua-cam.com/users/neilmossey HOW TO DOWNLOAD *ALL* YOUR GOOGLE PHOTOS & VIDEOS: ua-cam.com/video/9lU-jfTKf5s/v-deo.html HOW TO FIX GOOGLE STORAGE SPACE FULL PROBLEM ON YOUR PHONE: ua-cam.com/video/R_f1em_7mjU/v-deo.html IF GMAIL IS TAKING UP YOUR GOOGLE SPACE, IDEAS FOR REDUCING: ua-cam.com/video/sNs5dhcv0F4/v-deo.html THE LINKS YOU NEED ARE: GOOGLE ONE site one.google.com GOOGLE PHOTOS RECOVER STORAGE: photos.google.com/quotamanagement 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!
Hi, I followed your instructions as you stated, I also replayed your video several times to make sure that I was doing it right and everything worked out as you instructed thank you for help. I've also subscribed to your channel, thank you again.
@@KennySanchez68 Hi - thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment. Really pleased this might rescue your Google account. Thanks again, appreciate it.
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!
@@elixier33 exactly. do you know louis rossman? he talked about a dad who sent photos of his naked son to a doctor and then google flagged him as a criminal and deleted his whole account, which had a massive domino effect. he couldn't do anything to restore it.
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!
@@stevo19911991 Hi Stevo thanks for the kind question. I say yes, but there is a risk that the photo will reupload or resync if the backup is turned back on. If it were me - and I'm' sure you've considered this: I'd test it with some photos that you know have been backed up onto your Mac to be sure that deleting on Google Photos doesn't delete pictures on your phone. Good luck!
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 .
Thanks for the kind message - my other videos in the description show how to set up another account just for your pictures to partner share back to your original account without taking up space. Good luck with your storage
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.
Thanks for the kind message and suggestion, really appreciate it. If it were me, I might probably use UA-cam to upload to which has no limits and is easy to share... but appreciate that clients might be worried that it seems so public, even if it were set to unlisted or private, and also they would want the actual file to download. Thanks again.
@@neilmossey also, many times in sending completely unedited footage, which would mean needing to send a number of links as my camera saves a file every half hour. Also, sometimes I need to send pictures as well, which wouldn't really work with YT.
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!
Be aware that google will delete your data if you no longer use their services for 2 years. And also there is high chance that you are backing up the same photos twice or more. So should be careful.
@Neil..I have been trying for the past year to fix the storage issue but no one on UA-cam has provided a step by step instruction better than you.. You are awesome, thank you
Buddy don't do this, you can land in big trouble. Say you create multiple accounts (for storage instance). Google knows everything, they know (with ip address, cache and spying) that how many accounts you have. You cant hide from them (since they themselves are spyware, rootkit in android). If they ban one of your account, you become ineligible for some Google services with rest of your accounts as well (sadly very harsh). Like for example if one of your google account is banned, you create android developer id (kind of Google service, services may differ) with another Google account. Even after paying, your Google service will be void for violating Google policies. Ban on one account can effect your every other account, and that is worst part of Google baba knowing everything.
& this is not a imaginery thing, many google accounts have been banned for violating google policies. Unfortunately there is no way to contact google making things worse. If your one google account gets banned, your every other google account is effected. & you are ineligible for any Google service unless u change your IP adress completely. Thats is Sad and Worst part!!
@@animalrecapped I transferred my photos from my old Google account to my new one and they say they don't take up space, even if I deleted the photo off the old account and my device the photo is still on my new account even tho it doesn't take up space, so contacted Google 3 months ago, and today they said thats normal and its good and i won't have any issues. My question is why don't they take up space?
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
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.
Keep creating google accounts and you’ll get 15gb of storage with every account and one day google will ban all of your accounts due to violating it’s policies 👍
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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.
OHHHH thanks for that update @dbknox - Very funny that the offer changed!!! Hope it does the job, and hope it helps to create a brand new account just for the photos to keep the account operational. Not thrifty... I'd say wise! Good luck and thanks again for the kind message!
That $0.49 per month is for the first year, then it goes to $11.99 a month Always avoid any kind of monthly payment if you can, its not always possible, but the more you avoid it the more disposable income you will have. Strive to be debt free, its a wonderful thing
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!
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!
The sound effects on this video were unbearable for me. I had to turn on the captions and lower the volume to the slightest whisper. A summary for those of us that cannot stand the big arrows and constant dings: Just create another google account when you run out of storage and "partner share" all the photos to your primary google account. Also don't forget to use storage saver! Thank you Neil! This video was helpful and I understand why you have the loud sounds and arrows but I still don't enjoy it lol.
@@rahsaanb8749 Thanks for the kind comment. I thought that too after I had uploaded it, unfortunately. Then it went on to get 900000 views, so what do I know!
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.
Too true - this is very fiddly, I've made a video just about recovering the account only using only a phone but it sounds like you might be aiming foe an external drive - good luck!
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!!!
I’m going to try this later on. I used to reduce the quality and it would work for a bit. Suddenly I couldn’t find that option any longer. Thanks for these tips.
Thanks for the kind message Emeraldsroses, really hope this helps. Bizarrely Google removed this option from the phone app but leave it on the desktop site. Good luck with fixing your account.
The issue is that when you create a new account and turn on backup, it starts backing up all the photos on your phone, including those already backed up to another account. As a result, you quickly receive a notification that there is no space left. Is there an option to back up only recent photos instead of everything? If not, this feature is not useful to me.
Hi Neil, I came across your channel by chance, then I liked what I saw, and then, as a natural consequence, I subscribed to your channel. This is an interesting alternative to get more space in Photos and I had thought about it before. I have a couple of questions on this method. 1) Once I log into my new Google account in my mobile phone, will I be able to get my messages from my regular Gmail account? As far as I know, you can only have one Google account active at a time. 2) If I share the new account with my older account, I will be able to watch my photos and videos from my new account in my old account, but how do I watch the photos stored in my old account? Won't I need to log in to my old account to access those photos? 3) Many of the photos in my mobile phone are going to get duplicated in my new account (since they were already backed up in my old account), how to resolve this issue? I hope I am not asking too many questions.😊 Thanks and regards in advance. Good day to you.
As a professional photographer, I prefer shooting in raw and so do I like to save some of my important files even after editing them already. Wouldn't compressing the files not also ruin the RAW pictures? That's why I prefer original. Thanks
Thanks for the kind question AWA Ereck - absolutely - but the comments I've been receiving question if Google Photos is the right place for them to store those RAW images, given we have no idea what Google will be charging 3 months from now, let alone 3 years and the amount of storage needed will only go up too... Some even like Google Photos for its search to look up original photos at high res stored locally or on external drive... This video is just here to help people recover their Google Account if they don't want to go into that long term paid relationship with no exit strategy. If you like storing on Original, that's awesome. Thanks again
Omg. As soon as I started the video, you hit on all the buttons. Plus the cellphone service/companies made phones without a micro SD option. Can you say "conspiracy"? Thank you for your refreshing attitude and knowledge. Will be sharing.
Thanks for the kind comment - too true! So difficult to make this video because there are so many layers of issues with the phone maxing out storage too! Hope you're able to get partner sharing to help stay under the limit, good luck with your storage!
This is really helpful thank you so so much. You reminded me of things I'd discovered a while ago but didnt take too much notice of (and now desperately need to do something about my storage) - and you've included in this video everything that i need to do. Brilliant. Just one thing - (not too bad in this video), but in others, the sound effects are sooooo annoying that its very off-putting and may even be a reason I can't watch any more. This is such a shame because the content is really useful. It also makes a nice change to hear a fellow Brit rather than an American voice (which I like, but still, nice to hear an English accent)!!
After I got rid of 8gb google doc files I found out that I had permanently deleted the major file i use daily. I contacted google support and within 15 min, all the permanently deleted files were restored. did it via chat. this happened maybe a year or so ago and my office person had to contact them. this time i did it. the important thing is do not delay a single second!! at a certain point, even they can't help you. do not panic; just contact them.
So, here I go! I’ve spent a week deleting almost 10 years of photos because my email is being held hostage. I am excited to see if this works and be able to get my email back! Very excited, will keep you updated! Thank you.
Thanks Pete, I know that feeling! You have no need to watch another video, but if you're curious about using Partner Sharing with yourself to stay under 15GB, there's a new video here... ua-cam.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/v-deo.html Thanks again for the kind comment, really appreciate it.
Hey, thanks a ton for this excellent video Neil. Great job. I did exactly step by step as you told in this video. Just have one query, after making a new account and turning backup on it started to backup my old photos again which i had already backed up in my previous a count. Should i delete them all from phone? Pls help.
Thanks for the kind comment. In case this helps: If you set up Partner Sharing, all the photos are shared to that account at original quality(!) Even if they have been set to storage saver in the original account. You can even delete them in the original account and they remain in the shared account. Also Google Takeout seems to download all your photos and videos at original quality. Good luck with your Google storage and thanks again
The compressed photos should look fine on a mobile, but in print or on a large screen they may look a little blurry, so you still have to backup photos that you might want to view in a large format one day.
@@neilmosseyWould a thumb drive do the job? I don't want to compress because I take photos of tiny detailed organisms ( such as spiders) for the teaching I do.
I've been thinking of doing this for a long time, but I always had in mind. Is there a way to migrate all my current backed up photos to the new "photo" gmail? I want to remove all images from my current gmail, google drive and such and keep photos for it's own email.
damn I thought this was a clickbait at first, but after watching it and following your steps, what a magic !!?!??! Didnt even thought of this method, really amazing !!!
Thanks for your very kind comment - glad it might help. The Partner Sharing I tried after this video is really worth doing too - I'm still using mine and not run out of space! (yet!) Good luck with your storage!
Yeah but that $2 ends up being $24 for the year and then $48 a year after that and it will keep growing the longer you want to keep it, which is exactly what google wants...the best thing to do is to get an ssd and dump all your photos and videos onto that. They're fairly cheap nowadays, and you can link it to a cloud to have access everywhere you go....however, creating a new google account just for pictures and videos is a good free option.
I can not THANK YOU ENOUGH! I was about to give them my credit card that I can't afford. I have to get a external hard drive. Like everyone,I have pictures and videos that are non replaceable. 🤗🦊
Thanks for the very kind comment, I really appreciate it and really pleased something here might help. There are more videos about how to keep under quota. Good luck with your Google storage AND your credit card!!
Hi, can someone please help me! I followed every step but i still need some help. Google says that all 15gb are full of pictures. When i did the back up only 1gb went to the new account. I checked and i dont miss any pictures. What do i do to free up more storage?
Thank you so much I bought my Google pixel 7 pro a week ago and now it says full storage already unless I pay £1.50. So I will give this a try a big thanks.
Thanks for the kind message Jayne - wow, that's a quick filling! And we don't know how much they'll charge in the future, and the price goes up every 100GB. I'm sure you don't need to see another video but I made a more up to date one that might be a bit easier to follow, because you can use Partner Sharing to create a Google account just for the photos and videos - it's here: ua-cam.com/video/5G_N4AnLMiM/v-deo.html Good luck with your storage!
OmygOd I can't believe there's a solution!! I've spent countless hours trying to go back, select the ones to delete and let got just to stay away from the subscription. Thankyou so so much 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Great video !! Helps me a lot as I am not high tech savvy at all !! Lol. Still learning a lot !! Yours was very easy to understand, so I just subbed to your channel 😀 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Nice video! But I couldn't find the option to convert the existing photos and videos to compressed form. The UI seems to have changed since you made this video. Would really appreciate if you could help find the option if it still exists. Thanks! Edit: Found the option in google photos settings.
hi, thanks for the big help! Just got worried a day ago that I have to delete some files, pics and videos to lessen the storage, and I found your video! I followed your instructions and now my storage got more than 4 years left..Thanks again!
As years go by and you have 4 family members making photos on phones and camera, the question to the IT guy (dad) is : how to ensure that we have a shared location that is in sync and where photos that are already these are not duplicated and how we do we ensure there is a backup and how can we remove pictures that are already centralized. If you a (e.g.Synology) NAS you can assign each family member a folder (via drive).Then turn on Cloud Sync and sync google drive, onedrive and other locations centrally e.g.each sunday. Then run a de-duplication script to move duplicates to a duplicates folder. In that way you have e.g. 2015-12-23_Xmas as the folder for all photos of that day from all sources. You can then backup from the location to any backup location and your costs are equally to a hard disk cost e.g. 12 Tb for 100 euro for around 5 years limetime average for a disk. All photos synced can be removed each week since centralized.
I've found a way to back up all my photos that take up zero storage... I get the pictures that I truly care about printed and keep them in a photo album that will last generations 🤓 it's amazing how people care so much about pictures but don't care enough about them to actually make them real😂
Hi, thanks for the kind message and really sorry this can't be seen for you. Can I ask - are you looking for it on a mobile or desktop on Google Photos? I just checked and the option still is there at photos.google.com/quotamanagement If you are on a phone or mobile device, open up the browser and make sure you are logged into the correct Google account on Google Photos. Hope this helps and thanks again. Hope you are able to compress your photos if you still wish to!
I'm usually bad at directions, but yours was easy to follow. Thanks, this really helped, as I don't have much money and Xiaomi phones upgraded their firmware and won't let me connect to my PC via USB anymore so this was life-saving.
I'll echo what's been said by others..... Absolute genius!!!! Was cursing myself for activating Google photos, trying and failing it work out how to remedy the situation, failing miserably I might add cos I'm not an IT genius. You're saving sanity 1 person at a time sir!
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.
Thank you Neil, I have a problem after making the new account it’s says that “backing up to a different account” which is backing up to my original account. How do I just back it up to that new account I made?
Sorry to hear this Ng. I'm sure you've tried this but 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!
Very educative, thanks. I have a question; after connecting Account 2 (new) to my google photo app on my phone and switching back up on, it started backing up my old pictures on my phone which is already backed up in my account 1 (old ). How can I set back up date to start from the day I link account 2 (new) to my google app on my phone ? Or how can I stop account 2 (new) from backing up my old photos on my phone gallery ?
@@waqashashmi6309 thanks for the kind question Sometimes it takes a while for the account to show the up to date storage. I sometimes have to check Google Photos on another device which then shows a different amount of storage that's more accurate Hope you find a fix
You are changing the WOLRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much. I have given up so many times trying to free up space and I have spent to much money. This was so helpful. Thank you.
First of all, thank you for the video. I did everything step by step with both my phone and my desktop pc and even after compressing my files about 3 times I still have the out of storage message
My whatsapp is unable to "back up" because of this message saying that I have to buy more storage, have you heard of this problem before? Thankyou so much in advance
Once I create the new google account for just my pictures and videos, and they are backed up on to that new account, is it safe for me to delete them from the old email acount they were on before? And can i safely delete them from my device??😢 Im not Teksavy AT ALL im so nervous to permanently delete me videos and pictures by accident! 😢
Thanks Albert. I'm doing this with only one 'photos' account now and using partner sharing to share it back to my 'real' account - and with auto save, when the photos account deletes the photo/video it remains in my 'real' account. Good luck with your storage and thanks again.
My iPhone 15 pro max does not offer a Recover Storage window option. But it does at the bottom of the manage storage screen it does say Learn about storage. When you click it there’s is nothing offering recover storage. So do you have any ideas on what to do at this point?
Thank you for the kind question Sanyo - yes the Google Photos app is cruel and doesn't offer the option - we can only see it on the photos.google.com site. So we can either go there on the browser in our phone or use a laptop or tablet to go to that site. Hope this helps and good luck with your storage
Thanks, Neil, My Google storage was maxed out. I followed your suggestions. I'm back to normal. Can't thank you enough. I'm telling my friends about this. You are a star....Thanks again!
Hi Neil, I am in Barbados and I cannot purchase storage. When I click 'Get more storage' I get this message Get more storage with Google One 30 TB of storage is the maximum available through Google One. How can I get around this?
Hi Timothy thanks for the kind question - what a great question, I didnt realise this would be a problem too. I now use Partner sharing to have a separate account just for my photos and partner share them to my original account which does not take up any storage space in my shared account. When I delete big photos from the photos account, the copy stays in my original account. I try to explain it here - hope this helps: ua-cam.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/v-deo.html
HOW TO USE PARTNER SHARING FOR UNLIMITED GOOGLE PHOTOS:
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HOW TO DOWNLOAD *ALL* YOUR GOOGLE PHOTOS & VIDEOS:
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HOW TO FIX GOOGLE STORAGE SPACE FULL PROBLEM ON YOUR PHONE:
ua-cam.com/video/R_f1em_7mjU/v-deo.html
IF GMAIL IS TAKING UP YOUR GOOGLE SPACE, IDEAS FOR REDUCING:
ua-cam.com/video/sNs5dhcv0F4/v-deo.html
THE LINKS YOU NEED ARE:
GOOGLE ONE site
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GOOGLE PHOTOS RECOVER STORAGE:
photos.google.com/quotamanagement
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!
hi
What if you have no photos and the biggest file is in Document?
Hi Neil .. my google photos compressing takes 24 hours & still not showing any result .. & have restarted twice but still the same
Hi, I followed your instructions as you stated, I also replayed your video several times to make sure that I was doing it right and everything worked out as you instructed thank you for help. I've also subscribed to your channel, thank you again.
@@KennySanchez68 Hi - thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment. Really pleased this might rescue your Google account. Thanks again, appreciate it.
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!
That's really wonderful to hear Ghayassalem - thanks for taking the time to leave a kind message. I appreciate it.
how long does the compression process take?
Why are you trusting google with your pics mad memories? are you mad?
@@elixier33 exactly. do you know louis rossman? he talked about a dad who sent photos of his naked son to a doctor and then google flagged him as a criminal and deleted his whole account, which had a massive domino effect. he couldn't do anything to restore it.
Such a gem of a video this is. Really helped me get from 15 GB to 8 GB in a matter of minutes
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!
Wise words Gordon!
Big thanks!
you can choose the folders you want to back up
use different folders for the photos that aren't backed up plz
thanks
@@meteorite_19 yes thats right
Is it also ok and easy to mass delete all photos from google without damaging photos on my iPhone?
I back up on my Mac already.
Thanks for advise
@@stevo19911991 Hi Stevo thanks for the kind question.
I say yes, but there is a risk that the photo will reupload or resync if the backup is turned back on.
If it were me - and I'm' sure you've considered this: I'd test it with some photos that you know have been backed up onto your Mac to be sure that deleting on Google Photos doesn't delete pictures on your phone. Good luck!
I just want you to know that I have like 20 google accounts now
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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 .
Thanks for the kind message - my other videos in the description show how to set up another account just for your pictures to partner share back to your original account without taking up space. Good luck with your storage
@@neilmossey sure.
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.
Thanks for the kind message and suggestion, really appreciate it.
If it were me, I might probably use UA-cam to upload to which has no limits and is easy to share... but appreciate that clients might be worried that it seems so public, even if it were set to unlisted or private, and also they would want the actual file to download.
Thanks again.
@sayididit excellent idea .... thanks for that suggestion. Very useful for content which needs to be stored , but not accessed frequently. M
@@neilmossey YT also downgrades the file of I'm not mistaken
@@neilmossey also, many times in sending completely unedited footage, which would mean needing to send a number of links as my camera saves a file every half hour. Also, sometimes I need to send pictures as well, which wouldn't really work with YT.
@@maursal9 yup, it would work for that as well. Just make sure you save the email address and passwords so you don't lose your stuff...
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!
Be aware that google will delete your data if you no longer use their services for 2 years. And also there is high chance that you are backing up the same photos twice or more. So should be careful.
@Neil..I have been trying for the past year to fix the storage issue but no one on UA-cam has provided a step by step instruction better than you.. You are awesome, thank you
Buddy don't do this, you can land in big trouble. Say you create multiple accounts (for storage instance). Google knows everything, they know (with ip address, cache and spying) that how many accounts you have. You cant hide from them (since they themselves are spyware, rootkit in android). If they ban one of your account, you become ineligible for some Google services with rest of your accounts as well (sadly very harsh). Like for example if one of your google account is banned, you create android developer id (kind of Google service, services may differ) with another Google account. Even after paying, your Google service will be void for violating Google policies. Ban on one account can effect your every other account, and that is worst part of Google baba knowing everything.
& this is not a imaginery thing, many google accounts have been banned for violating google policies. Unfortunately there is no way to contact google making things worse. If your one google account gets banned, your every other google account is effected. & you are ineligible for any Google service unless u change your IP adress completely. Thats is Sad and Worst part!!
@@animalrecapped I transferred my photos from my old Google account to my new one and they say they don't take up space, even if I deleted the photo off the old account and my device the photo is still on my new account even tho it doesn't take up space, so contacted Google 3 months ago, and today they said thats normal and its good and i won't have any issues. My question is why don't they take up space?
Don't show this video to google
hahahahaha..... he has uploaded this video in youtube .
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
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.
Too true, thanks for the kind message
Keep creating google accounts and you’ll get 15gb of storage with every account and one day google will ban all of your accounts due to violating it’s policies 👍
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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.
OHHHH thanks for that update @dbknox - Very funny that the offer changed!!!
Hope it does the job, and hope it helps to create a brand new account just for the photos to keep the account operational.
Not thrifty... I'd say wise!
Good luck and thanks again for the kind message!
How do you compress Google Photos? Please share.
Hahaha..
@@MariaMaria-sz1rm it's explained in the video
That $0.49 per month is for the first year, then it goes to $11.99 a month
Always avoid any kind of monthly payment if you can, its not always possible, but the more you avoid it the more disposable income you will have. Strive to be debt free, its a wonderful thing
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!
Thanks for the very kind message Adva, I appreciate it.
Good luck with your storage!
If he was a genious he wouldnt be using google to backup his services at all! Not cool, you cant fix stupid!
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!
Hi, I'm from Malaysia, a Training Provider company. Love your video. Clear and very informative. Thank you for this video!
Hello Malaysia! Thanks for the very kind comment GoldenTusks, really appreciate it.
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!
Thanks for the very kind comment Muhammed, I really appreciate it
The sound effects on this video were unbearable for me. I had to turn on the captions and lower the volume to the slightest whisper. A summary for those of us that cannot stand the big arrows and constant dings: Just create another google account when you run out of storage and "partner share" all the photos to your primary google account. Also don't forget to use storage saver! Thank you Neil! This video was helpful and I understand why you have the loud sounds and arrows but I still don't enjoy it lol.
Thank you for letting me know that this video isn't for you
@@neilmossey it was very helpful information though and I appreciate you for making it! Mainly the sound effects weren't for me
@@rahsaanb8749 Thanks for the kind comment.
I thought that too after I had uploaded it, unfortunately. Then it went on to get 900000 views, so what do I know!
I watched a lot of videos, and I must say you are the one who is giving usable
value here. Cool Work!
Thanks for the very kind comment @kimzacho5268 - really appreciate it, and really pleased if it's helping.
Neil, fantastic stuff! Really appreciate you passing along this video. Thanks a ton!🙂
Well done man. You are the most knowledgeable and erudite instructor I've ever seen on UA-cam. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind comment Jerry, I am winging it but thanks.
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.
Totally - always the safest option. Thanks for the kind comment.
It's worth a try..lots of steps, but I'm sick of paying Google
Too true - this is very fiddly, I've made a video just about recovering the account only using only a phone but it sounds like you might be aiming foe an external drive - good luck!
Thank you very much, I freed up 4 years worth of storage
That's fantastic, really appreciate the kind comment thanks
Thank you Neil! Wish I found this video sooner! Been such a hassle getting my storage down. You're a life saver! 🙏
Search and Read my comment before doing this. It simply shouldn't be done!!
Hii. Exuse me can you please explain to me how I can delete photos in my google photos without it deleting in my camera roll.
My Dad told me to check this out, I'm so glad I listened. Dad was right 👍🏻
Thank you 🙌🏻
Billions of THANK YOU TO YOU. Neil Mossey
Great stuff - glad it might help thanks Blue Pea
Deleting my photos on my old account is Deleting photos on my new account. What am I doing wrong ?
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!!!
Thanks for taking the time to leave this kind message @dimosk7389 - I appreciate it! Good luck with your storage
I’m going to try this later on. I used to reduce the quality and it would work for a bit. Suddenly I couldn’t find that option any longer. Thanks for these tips.
Thanks for the kind message Emeraldsroses, really hope this helps. Bizarrely Google removed this option from the phone app but leave it on the desktop site.
Good luck with fixing your account.
I keep deleting files and got down to 9gb, but the next day google still threatened to stop service because I was at 15gb. how do i fix it?
The issue is that when you create a new account and turn on backup, it starts backing up all the photos on your phone, including those already backed up to another account. As a result, you quickly receive a notification that there is no space left. Is there an option to back up only recent photos instead of everything? If not, this feature is not useful to me.
Same
Hi Neil, I came across your channel by chance, then I liked what I saw, and then, as a natural consequence, I subscribed to your channel.
This is an interesting alternative to get more space in Photos and I had thought about it before. I have a couple of questions on this method.
1) Once I log into my new Google account in my mobile phone, will I be able to get my messages from my regular Gmail account? As far as I know, you can only have one Google account active at a time.
2) If I share the new account with my older account, I will be able to watch my photos and videos from my new account in my old account, but how do I watch the photos stored in my old account? Won't I need to log in to my old account to access those photos?
3) Many of the photos in my mobile phone are going to get duplicated in my new account (since they were already backed up in my old account), how to resolve this issue?
I hope I am not asking too many questions.😊
Thanks and regards in advance. Good day to you.
FINALLY! I found someone like me 😂
(Using all the storage up with photos)
Haha yes! Good luck with finding a fix!
@@neilmossey Thank you :)
And thank you for your tips!
As a professional photographer, I prefer shooting in raw and so do I like to save some of my important files even after editing them already.
Wouldn't compressing the files not also ruin the RAW pictures?
That's why I prefer original.
Thanks
Thanks for the kind question AWA Ereck - absolutely - but the comments I've been receiving question if Google Photos is the right place for them to store those RAW images, given we have no idea what Google will be charging 3 months from now, let alone 3 years and the amount of storage needed will only go up too... Some even like Google Photos for its search to look up original photos at high res stored locally or on external drive... This video is just here to help people recover their Google Account if they don't want to go into that long term paid relationship with no exit strategy. If you like storing on Original, that's awesome. Thanks again
Omg. As soon as I started the video, you hit on all the buttons. Plus the cellphone service/companies made phones without a micro SD option. Can you say "conspiracy"? Thank you for your refreshing attitude and knowledge. Will be sharing.
Thanks for the kind comment - too true!
So difficult to make this video because there are so many layers of issues with the phone maxing out storage too!
Hope you're able to get partner sharing to help stay under the limit, good luck with your storage!
I got mad at my Google account's storage then I found this video. Amazing technique, better one. thanks for sharing bro
Thanks for the kind message @mohamedabdullahimaam9710 !
Yes I had the same idea and now have 3 gmail accounts. Thanks for sharing, love your channel.
Thanks for the lovely comment Jess!
*Sir...*
*If i delete those large attachment files from my gmail.. will it also get delete from my mobile device or gallery...???*
Why do you keep using breaking sound effect?
because he thinks he is osamason
Bro, I'm was today years old when I found this out oh my god this guy's next level GENIUS!
Thanks for the very kind comment, I appreciate it @Musro0m_L0rd !
This is really helpful thank you so so much. You reminded me of things I'd discovered a while ago but didnt take too much notice of (and now desperately need to do something about my storage) - and you've included in this video everything that i need to do. Brilliant.
Just one thing - (not too bad in this video), but in others, the sound effects are sooooo annoying that its very off-putting and may even be a reason I can't watch any more. This is such a shame because the content is really useful. It also makes a nice change to hear a fellow Brit rather than an American voice (which I like, but still, nice to hear an English accent)!!
I agreed. The sound....
After I got rid of 8gb google doc files I found out that I had permanently deleted the major file i use daily.
I contacted google support and within 15 min, all the permanently deleted files were restored. did it via chat. this happened maybe a year or so ago and my office person had to contact them. this time i did it. the important thing is do not delay a single second!! at a certain point, even they can't help you. do not panic; just contact them.
That's extremely helpful to know, thanks for the kind comment Harold!
I love this video because you just think like a Nigerian man cause who want to pay for subscription for life 😂😂😂. love from Nigeria 🇳🇬.
Haha thanks - what a compliment!
Really appreciate the kind coment
So, here I go! I’ve spent a week deleting almost 10 years of photos because my email is being held hostage. I am excited to see if this works and be able to get my email back! Very excited, will keep you updated! Thank you.
did it work?
I want to ask that if we back up our photos in compressed size, does that effect the photos quality?
You, Sir are a star!
I've been procrastinating for months and now have a viable solution! Thank you! 👌🏻
Thanks Pete, I know that feeling!
You have no need to watch another video, but if you're curious about using Partner Sharing with yourself to stay under 15GB, there's a new video here...
ua-cam.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/v-deo.html
Thanks again for the kind comment, really appreciate it.
Oh my God, thank you so much, I've been looking for something like this for a long time. You are a literal lifesaver.
Figurative 😊
Hey, thanks a ton for this excellent video Neil. Great job. I did exactly step by step as you told in this video. Just have one query, after making a new account and turning backup on it started to backup my old photos again which i had already backed up in my previous a count. Should i delete them all from phone? Pls help.
It says "trouble compressing items. You can only recover storage once per day". What do I do? Please help.
The original photos are on your phone but what if you loose your phone. You will only have the smaller size images in cloud storage.
Thanks for the kind comment.
In case this helps: If you set up Partner Sharing, all the photos are shared to that account at original quality(!)
Even if they have been set to storage saver in the original account.
You can even delete them in the original account and they remain in the shared account.
Also Google Takeout seems to download all your photos and videos at original quality.
Good luck with your Google storage and thanks again
What a brilliant video Neil !! Followed this with you yesterday and ow I have more free space :D- Thank you !
Many thanks for the kind comment @soyouwanttobeaceo - I really appreciate it. Glad something in here might help and good luck with your storage!
Thank you for "taking the time" to do this video I found it very helpful😊
Thanks for the kind comment tyh.
You are brilliant! Thanks for explaining so well! I shared on my facebook page! Hope it helps others, too!
Thanks for the v kind comment @Darcischulze5138 , really appreciate it!
second time i have used this video, thank you again! this video is saved for later as well. much appreciated :)
Thank You Sir. I'm from the Philippines and just new here. I did the steps from 15gbp now down to 3gb. What a relief! You're an angel sent from above!
Thanks for the kind message simplemind19, I really appreciate it. Good luck with your storage!
@@neilmossey Yes Sir. I hope more people will find your youtube page and also be able to resolve their concerns thru this. God Bless you always :)
The compressed photos should look fine on a mobile, but in print or on a large screen they may look a little blurry, so you still have to backup photos that you might want to view in a large format one day.
Yes thanks Peter - really important to backup locally or with other service
@@neilmosseyWould a thumb drive do the job? I don't want to compress because I take photos of tiny detailed organisms ( such as spiders) for the teaching I do.
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Thanks 4 sharing!!!
Big thanks for the kind message Nikita, really appreciate it!
There is no recover storage on that page
I've been thinking of doing this for a long time, but I always had in mind. Is there a way to migrate all my current backed up photos to the new "photo" gmail? I want to remove all images from my current gmail, google drive and such and keep photos for it's own email.
damn I thought this was a clickbait at first, but after watching it and following your steps, what a magic !!?!??! Didnt even thought of this method, really amazing !!!
Thanks for your very kind comment - glad it might help. The Partner Sharing I tried after this video is really worth doing too - I'm still using mine and not run out of space! (yet!) Good luck with your storage!
Good video and tips, but the cost of a 100 GB Google Drive is only $1.99 a month or $9.99 a month for 2 Terabytes.
Yeah but that $2 ends up being $24 for the year and then $48 a year after that and it will keep growing the longer you want to keep it, which is exactly what google wants...the best thing to do is to get an ssd and dump all your photos and videos onto that. They're fairly cheap nowadays, and you can link it to a cloud to have access everywhere you go....however, creating a new google account just for pictures and videos is a good free option.
Great job Neil, your video is superb and to the point. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind message Arthur, I appreciate it!
Good luck with your storage!
Your dedication and efforts are truly inspiring. Wishing you continued success and accomplishments in all your endeavours. Keep up the fantastic work!
Thanks for the very kind comment Sayalitambe, I really appreciate it
@@neilmossey is this method still working?
maybe my desktop is the issue
how much time will it take to compress all the photos and videos. It's been 3 days ...... yet no change.
I can not THANK YOU ENOUGH! I was about to give them my credit card that I can't afford. I have to get a external hard drive. Like everyone,I have pictures and videos that are non replaceable. 🤗🦊
Thanks for the very kind comment, I really appreciate it and really pleased something here might help. There are more videos about how to keep under quota. Good luck with your Google storage AND your credit card!!
Thank you Naul, that was a very briliant idea. wish you all good.
Thanks for the kind comment, I appreciate it
i did it!!!! thank you so much my friend for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the kind comment @oscar86456 - really pleased it might help
best thing to do is buy a harddrive
Very true - thanks @Warviation
Hi, can someone please help me!
I followed every step but i still need some help. Google says that all 15gb are full of pictures. When i did the back up only 1gb went to the new account. I checked and i dont miss any pictures. What do i do to free up more storage?
Thank you so much I bought my Google pixel 7 pro a week ago and now it says full storage already unless I pay £1.50. So I will give this a try a big thanks.
Thanks for the kind message Jayne - wow, that's a quick filling! And we don't know how much they'll charge in the future, and the price goes up every 100GB. I'm sure you don't need to see another video but I made a more up to date one that might be a bit easier to follow, because you can use Partner Sharing to create a Google account just for the photos and videos - it's here: ua-cam.com/video/5G_N4AnLMiM/v-deo.html
Good luck with your storage!
You're such a blessing and you laugh to make it all so genius! Thank you 😊
Thanks for your very kind comment Siki, I really appreciate it!
I've already purchased the 100 GB plan, and it rocks. But anyway, this is a smart idea for those who do not want to rent a google one. Thank you Neil.
Thanks for the kind comment Anas, really appreciate it!
Google One is the way to go for me, too.
Your joy , knowledge, your findings.. sharing all those tips are useful and of assistance.
Thanks for the very kind message Adriana, really appreciate it. Good luck with your storage!
OmygOd I can't believe there's a solution!! I've spent countless hours trying to go back, select the ones to delete and let got just to stay away from the subscription. Thankyou so so much 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks for the kind message @shraddhaparkinson4542 I really appreciate it.
Good luck with your storage! ✋
Incredible, straightforward remedy for a major headache
Thanks for the kind comment Aidan, good luck with your storage!!!
@@neilmossey To add to my solution, any files that require long term storage I move to Aws Glazier. It's very cheap..
@@neilmossey I have been using the dual accounts for a few weeks now and it's brilliant. Switching my backup to saver mode, made a massive difference.
Holy moly this is such a life-saver! Thank you a ton!
Thanks for taking the time to leave this very kind message - really pleased that it might help.
@@neilmossey You're so kind to find them to even reply to each of the zillion comments Neil....Wow, God bless you.
Great video !! Helps me a lot as I am not high tech savvy at all !! Lol. Still learning a lot !! Yours was very easy to understand, so I just subbed to your channel 😀 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Thanks for this kind comment too Spark!
Yes I agree
@neilmossey Oh -! I missed this !? You're very very welcome ! 👍🙏 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
@@anja2716 Yay ! 👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Nice video! But I couldn't find the option to convert the existing photos and videos to compressed form. The UI seems to have changed since you made this video. Would really appreciate if you could help find the option if it still exists. Thanks!
Edit: Found the option in google photos settings.
Ah, thanks for the kind question Dominik and the update - hope it's working okay for you.
I have the same problem. I am out of storage space and I don't see a backup and sync option. HELP.
hi, thanks for the big help! Just got worried a day ago that I have to delete some files, pics and videos to lessen the storage, and I found your video! I followed your instructions and now my storage got more than 4 years left..Thanks again!
As years go by and you have 4 family members making photos on phones and camera, the question to the IT guy (dad) is : how to ensure that we have a shared location that is in sync and where photos that are already these are not duplicated and how we do we ensure there is a backup and how can we remove pictures that are already centralized. If you a (e.g.Synology) NAS you can assign each family member a folder (via drive).Then turn on Cloud Sync and sync google drive, onedrive and other locations centrally e.g.each sunday. Then run a de-duplication script to move duplicates to a duplicates folder. In that way you have e.g. 2015-12-23_Xmas as the folder for all photos of that day from all sources. You can then backup from the location to any backup location and your costs are equally to a hard disk cost e.g. 12 Tb for 100 euro for around 5 years limetime average for a disk. All photos synced can be removed each week since centralized.
That's great thanks - the dream!
And I'll do that as soon as I've fixed the 3 cracked phone screens of my family members
I've found a way to back up all my photos that take up zero storage... I get the pictures that I truly care about printed and keep them in a photo album that will last generations 🤓 it's amazing how people care so much about pictures but don't care enough about them to actually make them real😂
Too true! Publishing - the best backup of all!
Thanks for the kind comment
I do too, but that album is full too
The compress option used to work wonders but all of a sudden its not landing on the page it used to.. The compress option is just vanished now
Hi, thanks for the kind message and really sorry this can't be seen for you.
Can I ask - are you looking for it on a mobile or desktop on Google Photos?
I just checked and the option still is there at
photos.google.com/quotamanagement
If you are on a phone or mobile device, open up the browser and make sure you are logged into the correct Google account on Google Photos.
Hope this helps and thanks again. Hope you are able to compress your photos if you still wish to!
I'm usually bad at directions, but yours was easy to follow. Thanks, this really helped, as I don't have much money and Xiaomi phones upgraded their firmware and won't let me connect to my PC via USB anymore so this was life-saving.
That's really good to hear because it's not easy, so really pleased something here might help.
Good luck with your Google storage
I'll echo what's been said by others..... Absolute genius!!!! Was cursing myself for activating Google photos, trying and failing it work out how to remedy the situation, failing miserably I might add cos I'm not an IT genius. You're saving sanity 1 person at a time sir!
Thanks for taking the time to leave this kind comment @biscuitbuilds2066 - I really appreciate it. Good luck with your storage!
OMG thank you! Very clear instructions! I went from 15 GB to 9 without creating the extra accounts.
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.
Thank you Neil, I have a problem after making the new account it’s says that “backing up to a different account” which is backing up to my original account. How do I just back it up to that new account I made?
Sorry to hear this Ng.
I'm sure you've tried this but 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!
Dear Neil,
I could recover about 7 GB of space by reducing the size of the photos.
Thanks for this cost saving video
That's great to hear that this might help. Thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment, I appreciate it.
Very educative, thanks. I have a question; after connecting Account 2 (new) to my google photo app on my phone and switching back up on, it started backing up my old pictures on my phone which is already backed up in my account 1 (old ).
How can I set back up date to start from the day I link account 2 (new) to my google app on my phone ?
Or how can I stop account 2 (new) from backing up my old photos on my phone gallery ?
It says my storage is full though when i click it says just few MB‘s are used but then the error is still exist what should i do now
@@waqashashmi6309 thanks for the kind question
Sometimes it takes a while for the account to show the up to date storage.
I sometimes have to check Google Photos on another device which then shows a different amount of storage that's more accurate
Hope you find a fix
You are changing the WOLRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much. I have given up so many times trying to free up space and I have spent to much money. This was so helpful. Thank you.
First of all, thank you for the video. I did everything step by step with both my phone and my desktop pc and even after compressing my files about 3 times I still have the out of storage message
My whatsapp is unable to "back up" because of this message saying that I have to buy more storage, have you heard of this problem before? Thankyou so much in advance
Great! I tried some tricks but this is wonderful. Thank you for taking the time to explain this storage saver process!
Once I create the new google account for just my pictures and videos, and they are backed up on to that new account, is it safe for me to delete them from the old email acount they were on before? And can i safely delete them from my device??😢
Im not Teksavy AT ALL im so nervous to permanently delete me videos and pictures by accident! 😢
This works perfectly well.. I have been doing this since 2021.. I am on my third google photo album now.. 👍👍👍👍
Thanks Albert. I'm doing this with only one 'photos' account now and using partner sharing to share it back to my 'real' account - and with auto save, when the photos account deletes the photo/video it remains in my 'real' account. Good luck with your storage and thanks again.
My iPhone 15 pro max does not offer a Recover Storage window option. But it does at the bottom of the manage storage screen it does say Learn about storage. When you click it there’s is nothing offering recover storage. So do you have any ideas on what to do at this point?
Thank you for the kind question Sanyo - yes the Google Photos app is cruel and doesn't offer the option - we can only see it on the photos.google.com site.
So we can either go there on the browser in our phone or use a laptop or tablet to go to that site.
Hope this helps and good luck with your storage
Many thanks Neil. I was struggling how to free up my google accounts for several months and I just compressed all photos and it worked very well.
I just want not to be backed up my photos. How can I return my photos from google photos into the nornal mode? please answer me.
Thanks, Neil, My Google storage was maxed out. I followed your suggestions. I'm back to normal. Can't thank you enough. I'm telling my friends about this. You are a star....Thanks again!
Hi Neil, I am in Barbados and I cannot purchase storage. When I click 'Get more storage' I get this message Get more storage with Google One 30 TB of storage is the maximum available through Google One. How can I get around this?
Hi Timothy thanks for the kind question - what a great question, I didnt realise this would be a problem too.
I now use Partner sharing to have a separate account just for my photos and partner share them to my original account which does not take up any storage space in my shared account. When I delete big photos from the photos account, the copy stays in my original account. I try to explain it here - hope this helps:
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