With every day that passes, new mobile phones that are increasingly better technically appear on the market, which translates into better cameras and therefore, photographs that take up more space. This can quickly make your device busy with photos and videos, as there is now a way to free up space on that device directly from Google Photos, thanks to the latest update to the app. I tell you how to free up space on any device with Google Photos.
A new way to free up space on your device
With the latest update of the app Google Photos now not only stores our photos and videos. Now has become a storage management and editing tool on our devices from anywhere. This means that we can now free up space on any of our devices directly from Google Photos, something we couldn't do before.
Basically what has been added in this latest version of the app is a storage manager where you can easily manage all the photos and videos you have in the storage space of your mobile devices. This is perfect for saving space on our phone without worrying about the photos or videos we have saved.
A novelty that many of us have been asking for for some time since we have always been able to delete photos from cloud storage, but We had never been able to do it from the internal storage of the mobile.
I have tried it and it is great, much faster and easier than before. I tell you how to free up space on any device from Google Photos with the new storage manager.
How to “Free up space on this device” from Google Photos
First of all I have to tell you that the space you are managing with this method is the space associated with your Google account, remember that If one of your devices is not associated with that Google account, you will not be able to free up space in this way.
Furthermore, It is important that you make a backup copy before either you have automatic backup activated or when you try this action Google will tell you "There is nothing to release." You can solve this if you do a backup your photos and videos. Knowing this, she continues reading what I tell you.
- Open Google Photos from any device.
- Go to your profile which you will see at the top right of your screen.
- Click on the option that says "Free up space on this device".
- Now play "Continue". The app itself will notify you that once the space in the mobile's internal storage is freed, you will be able to access that content from the cloud.
- Hit the button that says «Release (x GB)» where the "x" is the stored space.
- Balance "To accept" to delete all the photos and videos you have backed up in the cloud.
Ready, like this The deletion of these videos and photos from your device that are now in the cloud will begin and that you can always access them. This will take a while for the mobile depending on the space we had occupied. If at any time you regret it, you can restore these files on your terminal or on another device if you wanted it that way.
In addition to this way to free up space on your mobile from Google Photos, we can follow certain tips that will be great for us to gain storage with your Gmail account. So you already know, Now you can transfer all your photos and videos to the cloud and thus free up space on your device with Google Photos.
Have you already tried this new Google Photos feature? Tell me how it went and if you have had any problems I will try to help you solve it.