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Android backups count toward your 15GB Google storage limit now - how to check your settings
An amended Google One storage utilization policy is rolling out now to include your Android device settings in backups, but there's no need to panic. Here are your options.
Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Android settings now count toward Google's 15GB of free storage. The actual storage increase per user is very small at ~40MB. Users can easily save space by disabling unneeded app backups. Google allocates 15GB of free cloud storage to every Google account, shared across the company's cloud-based services, including Gmail, Drive, Sheets, Docs, Slides, and more recently Gemini. You'll also notice some third parties lay claim to their share of this…
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