If you are an Android smartphone user and keep your phone’s backup on your Google account, then now the account’s free 15GB storage may fill up quickly. This is because Google has changed its storage policy. According to Google’s updated policy, not just your phone’s photos and videos, but now SMS, call history, and app data backups will also be saved within this same free limit. This rule will first apply to new Android users. Currently uploaded images and videos on Google Photos are saved Meanwhile, for existing users’ accounts, this will be gradually rolled out over the coming months. This directly means that by default, more storage of your Google account will now be consumed. Until now, Google only counted images and videos uploaded to Google Photos and photos-videos included in MMS data in your free 15GB cloud storage. Plans for extra space start from ₹59 in India Google is continuously making changes to its storage policy. Earlier in May, the company had started testing reducing the default free storage limit from 15GB to 5GB for some new accounts in case of not linking a phone number. If you want to purchase additional storage for your account, Google One plans in India start from 459 per month, which includes 30GB storage. Apart from this, free storage is also being offered with Google AI plans. If you want, you can also choose paid Google One or Google AI plans with higher limits. New On-Off Toggles Will Be Available to Manage Space Along with this change, Google is also adding new features to give users more control over backups. Along with the per-app controls available till now, users will get on-off toggles for SMS, MMS, call history, and device settings. With this help, you can choose yourself which data to backup and which not to. To set this up, you can go to the ‘Google Backup’ page in your device’s settings. Google’s claim – Only 40MB data will increase However, there is a fear that this change will quickly exhaust users’ free storage limit, but the company says its impact will be very minimal. A Google spokesperson said, “We have updated our policy so that now all Android backup data counts in Google Account storage. We expect this to increase only 40MB data on average. We are also giving users more transparency and new controls, so they can choose themselves which data and apps to backup.” Knowledge Part: What is cloud storage and backup data?
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