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Well Neil im in the same problem as before, bought a new phone and thought i had loadis of , finding out icloud says my storage id full, im not buying an storage. Cant believe ive filled the storage ul so fast, but its only 5g! Why doesnt Apple give more than 5? Its so u will be hooked to them Monthly! Its not going to happen, if i put some of my important mail in a folder, would that give me more room? Thanks
Very usefull information❤. After I ignored several months the email from google with “storage is full” mesage I descovered that all my photos have disapeared from my google account 😢😢😢. Can you please tell me if I can recover my photos?
I'm 18 and noone has ever taught me the importance or how to manage my Gmail, Google photos etc. Only recently have I noticed how much this affected me as I nearly missed a scholarship offer from a uni sent through Gmail as my storage was full. Words can't express how happy I am when I came across this account. THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU
@@neilmosseythank you for the video. But! I delete and delete and don’t upload anything, I free the space from 3-4 gigs but after 10 mins it’s full again
Welcome.to.the club brother... I'm but a paltry 16 but this information has eluded me my entire life. With knowledge and a positive mindset we can bridge this gap!!!
OMG you saved my phone from flying out of the nearest window! I was sooooo frustrated. I had missed a dozen important emails. We all pay enough for the purchase and use of our cell phones, the last thing we need or want to do is send freaking Google more money. Thank you for the help!
I can't explain the relief and happiness my dad has right now. He was missing out on one of his important meetings but what do you know, Neil Mossey shows up with a magic wand and warms up the house. I am grateful for you well detailed and easy steps videos.
Hello this is Harshal from India. Tried this and got the results as desired. Thank you so much for this idea and to reduce the stress of storage. U made life a little easy. GOD bless you always.
I just came across your channel. Thanks so much for your clear step by step explanation. Now I don't have to erase any photos and videos, and on top of that I save time. 🙂
Almost 6 months im struggling this problem i clear my google account , i delete my files omg . Atlast i see your video . Thank you so much for your information 🙏
I followed your steps and now I am waiting to see how it will work. Hopefully I can get my photos back since I can not find them in my gallery. Thank you
Hi, thanks for your kind comment and sorry to hear that you can't find your photos. Is your Google Photos signed into the correct Google account? I'm not sure this is the same problem, but Google once moved all my photos to a completely different account without me realising because I had opened a different google account on a different app. I'm sure you've tried this but it might be worth checking the Google photos Trash/Bin folder. Also if you go to takeout.google.com you can download all photos and videos that Google has stored on your account (if you go there logged into the correct account). Hope you manage to find your photos.
HUGE! Thank you. Was looking for the "Recover Storage" option in my browser on desktop... who knew I had to use a *mobile browser* for it to appear. Thanks!!
Thank you, Neil! You calmly and simply explained why and how I needed to fix the sudden lack of storage. I knew nothing about this storage issue before Google sent warning notes to attempt to terrify me into buying more storage. I knew there must be a better solution. Thumbs Up! Subscribed! Telling everyone about you!
Hello Neil. thanks a lot. This video saved me. I was so stressed by the constant warning sign from Gmail. Not only did I give you thumb's up but I also subscribed you'r channel and will share this video to friends. thanks once again.😃
Thanks for the very kind comment Beth... I've had comments from people who have paid the subscription and then hit the next tier at 100GB... it never ends! Good luck with your storage.
@@neilmosseyWOW!!!!! You saved me 3 times!!!!! Your videos are so easy the way you simply walk us through! That blue button I had no clue!!! Thank you!
So I watched your full video and followed step by step. Although I did delete some photos and videos I wasn't using obviously, did that before watching your video. So I did the final step of compressing my files let's see how it goes. I'll update Update: Thank you Neil. It worked. I now have 1,5GB of space now. And it only took a few minutes. I Previously had 9 9GB of used space and it has been reduced. You saved me Thank you mate
Phew - really pleased to hear this and really appreciate you taking the time to leave this kind message It's getting the account locked that's really harsh - nice one!!!
Thanks very much for the clear and concise description of what I need to do to reduce my Google storage... It took a couple of hours to compress the files as you indicated...my storage usage reduced from 95 to 48 percent... Next I will add the extra account for my photos and videos. Many thanks
Hi Neil. thanks alot. This video saved me. i was so stressed by the constant warning sign from gmail. Not only did i give you thumbs up but i also subscribed your channel. thanks once again.
I watched this video and tried your recovery storage last up and currently waiting because it says it might take several hours lol I have a feeling it’s gonna work though. Terrific job mate.
Yeah that option doesn't exist anymore. If anyone wants to just change the photos on your phone to storage saver more, the thing I did was copy my photos to my SD card, delete the photos in my albums on my internal storage and then backup the photos on my SD card while in storage saver mode. It doesn't do all of them but I cut down the 2 gb of photos from my phone to like 200 mb
Thanks so much! Finally some tech advice that works! I did find that in order to change the Google Photos backup account on Apple devices (phone & tablet), I had to uninstall the app and then reinstall under the new photos account. Thanks again! Recover storage only got me 4 GB back, but it was enough for me to get everything Google back working again so I could set up another account. It'd be nice to have an older Pixel that "can back up photos & videos in Storage saver quality at no charge" in Google Photos. That'd help a lot.
helpful video neil thanks for the help this is surely gonna help the problems am dealing with storage capacity and photo storage when am taking pictures with my family in my phone really enjoy the help your giving people it really helps people deal with problems with understanding exactly what problem they are dealing with am glad that i stop by this video step by step going through the video and seeing some good results when they followed every step broken apart in different chapters but it's more kindness given by people when they watch the entire video without skipping to the direct point of the video really shows how much people enjoy and appreciate all the help and work put into your content neil mossey to make them happy and have a good day hope to see more helpful tips and youtube updates and news high hopes through this month and christmas with family and friends 🤝👍🏼
Hi Neil, thanks for this video, it's exactly what I have been looking for. I have one question though. If I compress the size of the photo's in google photo's, does it not impact the original photo that is on my phone? Since, if I delete a photo from google photos, it also deletes the original from my phone... Hope you can help, thanks again :)
Thank you. I wonder why even after having my own phone's internal storage, my photos are counted in google storage which in turn blackmails me with several ways? Wow!
Hi Neil, you are the only one I trust. My question is how do i download my Google Photos and an external hard drive? if you have already done a video on this please let me know. Thank you in advance!
Hi TheBossMan - thanks for the question: I have done a video on downloading, using a tool Google provide called Google Takeout czcams.com/video/9lU-jfTKf5s/video.html This method is great for downloading everything in one go BUT it does remove all the hidden metadata from each photo: so the ISO, shutter speed, camera used etc etc etc. If you don't use these then this is best. Takeout does provide those details, but as separate files. If this isn't suitable, then the other way is to select all of your photos into one album on Google photos, then download the album. The downside to this is that it might take a bit of work putting everything into one album. Or you could manually select all photos for downloads, which also takes a bit of time. Hope this helps - good luck with the backing up!
Thanks for the tips Google truly is annoying sometimes and I've done everything from deleting hundreds of pics/videos, to uninstalling the app 3 times. I think the compression will work now 👍🏻
The question I'm needing answered, is I want to delete all of my google photos from the browser, but not my phone, is it safe to do this when sync/backup is turned off, and after I'm done deleting my photos on google through the browser, do I turn the sync/backup on, will it clear everything anyway? I know this sounds like a dumb question I already know the answer to, thank you for the verification.
I hope this works. I've tried 18 other things and nothing made the slightest of difference. The biggest thing I'm learning is that is you change something in your photos setting within google it doesn't update everywhere. That's interesting.. I've been threatened with my gmail closing and storage being too large and I deleted thousands of videos and photos and nothing changed the size even after waiting over 48 hours to see if the numbers would change. Keeping my fingers crossed. Thank you. (on a side note - I was unable to get through the browser to change the convert storage option. I had to go onto my computer because it kept defaulting to the app version.) thank you!
Thanks for the kind comment and question. If you deleted thousands of videos - it might be that they have gone into your Trash/Bin folder in Google Photos. They are kept there for 30 days(!) before being permanently deleted. To fix this - go to google photos and find that Trash or Bin folder and select all to permanently delete. Hope this helps - let me know how you get on
Hi Neil i must compliment you...have watched many "how to" vids but nòt as "clear" as yours thnx a bunch. May i pose some questions to you please? My photo galery is constantly full...can i delete them after they'd been saved on my google photos? And how do i know all my gallery photos have all been saved before i delete them?
Hi Marion Thanks for the kind comment and question. You can in theory delete the photos on your phone after they have been saved on your Google photos, but the danger is that your Google Photos can then become full and Google offer to charge money to look after them. The best way for me to save the photos is to transfer them to a memory stick, or hard drive for safety maybe using a laptop or computer. The best way to check if your Gallery photos have been saved to Google photos is to check the google photos site either on your phone or laptop or tablet browser. Go to: photos.google.com Click on the top right hand corner to make sure you are signed in to google photos. I hope this helps
Omg this helped so much thank you so much! I’m so mixed up why I even have google storage? Is it because I have a gmail? I have iCloud.. the only reason I did this is because I could not receive emails!! If I delete a pic out of my Google pictures it deletes out of the pics on my phone to 🤔. Does it stay in my iCloud ? I’m still confused lol
Yes it is really confusing. Hope you're able to turn off backup. And also there's a setting in settings so that if you delete something from Google Photos it doesn't delete it from your phone. Thanks for the kind comment.
Hi really thx for show this I am a teenager 17 I still don’t know how to do this shit about to get my first job. I need my personal email but Out of storage You really saved me I have to say again thank you.
Brilliant, thank you. I'm not a back end computer whizz so will have to save this and follow it step by step. I'm one of those wally's who bought some storage 🙈😅
Hi Neil! Thank you for this information. I am a visual artist with a lot of process videos and photographs recorded daily. Wondering though, if I compress the files in that last step, will the image itself be less quality if I needed to use it later for printing or producing a small movie/tiktok? Just concerned about quality of the compressed images. Thank you again for your time, you are helping me SO much.
Hi Robin -thanks for the kind comment and question. Not sure this answers them but here are some thoughts: - I've naturally backed up all my original files from the phone to my hard drive/computer/memory stick for safety. Thinking if I need to ever blow these up to big photo print size I'll at least have the original size files. I've never done this and always do 4x6 prints from Google Photos, but completely understand the concern - You probably know this but if you compress your photos on Google Photos, it doesn't alter the original photo and video files which reside on your phone. - I find the Google Photos search function way to useful! So I use Google Photos for searching, and can then locate that file on my backup drive if needed. (I've never needed to do this though...) - I've seen a few times that when Google offers the paid subscription it offers to reinstate the Original size files, so they do seem to exist somewhere but I wouldn't rely on this... - Takeout.google.com allows you to download everything Google holds, all the photos and videos: I'm not sure if these are Original Size, might be worth doing a test? - The Partner Sharing works like a dream for me, and the shared photos say they are at Original Quality, even though the shared-from-photo was at Storage Saver quality... I'm not sure if this is the true original, but they don't take up any storage quota in the saved account... Hope something here helps. BTW Your channel is awesome! Thanks again
I find myself with this problem and here I am. First, very helpful video, and second, can I delete what I have store on Google photos without them being delete from my phone storage?
Well just got to tip #4 and i don't have similar options for the three bars menu, it is on my account. Please help if you can. Otherwise so far so good and easy to follow. Thank goodness for people like you to share this knowledge. I did subscribe to your channel so I don't lose you in hopes of trying to accomplish step #4 as well as future videos.
Once I share the two accounts, can I delete all the photos from the original account because they will now be saved on the new account taking up no storage? hope im understanding this right, thanks neil!
Great video. I've had my phone compressing the photos for nearly 15 hours. No indication of how long it lacks to complete this action. Is this a normal amount of time using high speed internet? Is the phone supposed to stay turned on while doing this or is standby ok. Thank you.
Great video Neil. That was really helpful. One question. To create a new account for my photos, do I need to create one from scratch with a new password? In your video it looks like you created a photo account using your existing password.
Thanks for the kind comment and question Charles. I created a new account from scratch... once you sign in I think the Google Photos app 'remembers' so it's easy to flick between the two by clicking on the avatar picture in the top right hand corner: that brings up a mini menu of recent accounts for you to choose from. Hope this helps - I'm sure you dont need or want to watch another video, but I experimented with the Partner Sharing in a way to not take up space here: czcams.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/video.html Good luck with your storage!
Hi Neil! Thank you for this info, I love it! It worked for the most part. The only thing I noticed is that all my photos from the first account didn't back up to the second. Do you have any suggestions for me? Maybe I missed something? 🤷🏻♀️
Hi Sandrad, thanks for the kind comment and question. I do this so that I can see photos from the second account in the first, but with partner sharing it should work both ways round. I find it tricky but I think you have to partner share and accept from the first to the second account. And make sure there's no 'start date' when asked, so all photos are shared. Also, if you're doing this with the Google Photos app, make sure you're logged in on the right account with the avatar in the top right hand corner and then click on the "Sharing" tab on the bottom. That should show your "other" account as a big avatar at the top. Next to the avatar it should say "View all", click on that. It then brings up the other account's photos and a dialogue at the top saying "Auto-save pictures from xxxxxx" Click on the big "Get Started" button to start the partner sharing. I hope some of the above appears on your app. If it doesn't, start Partner Sharing from the beginning. In the Google Photos app, click on your avatar, Click on Photos Settings. Scroll down to Partner Sharing and click on it. That opens a dialogue to select the partner account. But for it to work, you need to go into the other account to accept the invitation, and invite the other way round. I think I need to make a video showing how it works! Forgive me for Google not making this simple... Thanks again.
Hi Sandra D I'm sure you've sorted this already, but I finally made the video walkthrough that might answer your original question - hope this helps! czcams.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/video.html
Great tutorial - but before watching this video, I had already clicked on Free Up Space option. Now those photos must have got deleted from my phone? Any way to undo it?
Hi thanks for the kind comment and so sorry to hear this. There are some things you can try - and obviously try them quickly Go into google photos, either on the app, or better (because it's easier to see) on a desktop browser. Go into the recycle bin/bin/trash folder Google photos keeps things there, if they were deleted there - for 30 days. Fingers crossed they are there. There's also an archive folder in Google photos - it's on the left hand side bar - the 'clean up' may have only put the folder and pictures in there. You can restore from Archive folder. Other options: Go to takeout.google.com while logged into your account - quickly - and this is where you can download everything Google has stored on the account. The pictures and folder may still be there I have a video walkthrough here: czcams.com/video/9lU-jfTKf5s/video.html Hope something here helps and thanks again - good luck!
@@savannahliz great stuff - thanks for the update. It's not easy but if you can figure out the partner sharing to set Google Photos onto a new/different account and activate partner sharing to your original account, you can delete them off your new account with them saved to your original account with no space taken! But it's not totally easy!
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Well Neil im in the same problem as before, bought a new phone and thought i had loadis of , finding out icloud says my storage id full, im not buying an storage. Cant believe ive filled the storage ul so fast, but its only 5g! Why doesnt Apple give more than 5? Its so u will be hooked to them
Monthly! Its not going to happen, if i put some of my important mail in a folder, would that give me more room?
Thanks
Hi i just wanted to ask if this would reduce the quality of the photos and videos? As it's being compressed...
Very usefull information❤. After I ignored several months the email from google with “storage is full” mesage I descovered that all my photos have disapeared from my google account 😢😢😢. Can you please tell me if I can recover my photos?
❤ xcellent 👌 simply xcellent 👌!
I'm 18 and noone has ever taught me the importance or how to manage my Gmail, Google photos etc. Only recently have I noticed how much this affected me as I nearly missed a scholarship offer from a uni sent through Gmail as my storage was full. Words can't express how happy I am when I came across this account. THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUU
That's is a really kind message. Thanks so much for taking the time to leave this comment and good luck with your storage.
Same situation 😹🤦🏻♀️ I'm really grateful for this glamorous idea 🙏 thank you very much that was really helpful .
@@neilmosseythank you for the video. But! I delete and delete and don’t upload anything, I free the space from 3-4 gigs but after 10 mins it’s full again
I'm not being a troll I promise. The correct word is *taught in "no one has ever taught me..."
Welcome.to.the club brother... I'm but a paltry 16 but this information has eluded me my entire life. With knowledge and a positive mindset we can bridge this gap!!!
OMG you saved my phone from flying out of the nearest window! I was sooooo frustrated. I had missed a dozen important emails. We all pay enough for the purchase and use of our cell phones, the last thing we need or want to do is send freaking Google more money. Thank you for the help!
It's a year later that l found you..thankyou your vidio it helped me regain my storage for my photos back..😊
I can't explain the relief and happiness my dad has right now. He was missing out on one of his important meetings but what do you know, Neil Mossey shows up with a magic wand and warms up the house. I am grateful for you well detailed and easy steps videos.
EXACTLY what I was looking for, and better yet, with the best explanation and details that I could find. Excellent work, sir!
Thanks for the kind comment RovingCanuck, I appreciate it. Good luck with your storage!
Hello this is Harshal from India. Tried this and got the results as desired. Thank you so much for this idea and to reduce the stress of storage. U made life a little easy. GOD bless you always.
Thanks for the very kind message, really pleased that this might help Harshal!
Just reduced all photos and videos again and freed up tons of storage!!!! I had no idea!!! Thank you!! Amazing!!!!!❤❤❤❤
Thanks, good luck with your storage
I just came across your channel. Thanks so much for your clear step by step explanation. Now I don't have to erase any photos and videos, and on top of that I save time. 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to leave such a kind comment Sladana, I really appreciate it!
I’ve been hunting for this for ages! You’re a life saver, they don’t half hide that reduce photos setting don’t they 😒. Thanks you for your help 🙂
Simple, straight to the point and clear. Thank you
Thanks for the kind comment @omukazi100 - good luck with your Google storage!
Almost 6 months im struggling this problem i clear my google account , i delete my files omg . Atlast i see your video . Thank you so much for your information 🙏
I followed your steps and now I am waiting to see how it will work. Hopefully I can get my photos back since I can not find them in my gallery. Thank you
Hi, thanks for your kind comment and sorry to hear that you can't find your photos. Is your Google Photos signed into the correct Google account? I'm not sure this is the same problem, but Google once moved all my photos to a completely different account without me realising because I had opened a different google account on a different app.
I'm sure you've tried this but it might be worth checking the Google photos Trash/Bin folder.
Also if you go to takeout.google.com you can download all photos and videos that Google has stored on your account (if you go there logged into the correct account). Hope you manage to find your photos.
HUGE! Thank you. Was looking for the "Recover Storage" option in my browser on desktop... who knew I had to use a *mobile browser* for it to appear. Thanks!!
Thanks for the kind message - it's so true. Glad this might help and thanks again.
@@neilmosseyHi i just wanted to ask if this would reduce the quality of the photos and videos? As it's being compressed...
@@mausee1562 I'm not noticing a difference, but I always back up my photos and videos to a hard drive/memory stick for safety
Thank you, Neil! You calmly and simply explained why and how I needed to fix the sudden lack of storage. I knew nothing about this storage issue before Google sent warning notes to attempt to terrify me into buying more storage. I knew there must be a better solution.
Thumbs Up! Subscribed! Telling everyone about you!
Thank you so much! I went from 15 GB to 4 GB. I had this issue after i had accidentally backed up all of my photos and videos.
Hello Neil. thanks a lot. This video saved me. I was so stressed by the constant warning sign from Gmail. Not only did I give you thumb's up but I also subscribed you'r channel and will share this video to friends. thanks once again.😃
Thank you so much for this video, Neil! I already pay for the iCloud and refuse to pay for more storage!! Your clear instructions were so helpful!!
Thanks for the very kind comment Beth... I've had comments from people who have paid the subscription and then hit the next tier at 100GB... it never ends! Good luck with your storage.
@@neilmosseyWOW!!!!! You saved me 3 times!!!!! Your videos are so easy the way you simply walk us through! That blue button I had no clue!!! Thank you!
Thankyou so much for the simple tips to sort my storage. I was so panicked as ive never had this problem. Got yourself a new subscriber thats for sure
So I watched your full video and followed step by step. Although I did delete some photos and videos I wasn't using obviously, did that before watching your video.
So I did the final step of compressing my files let's see how it goes. I'll update
Update: Thank you Neil. It worked. I now have 1,5GB of space now. And it only took a few minutes. I Previously had 9 9GB of used space and it has been reduced. You saved me Thank you mate
Phew - really pleased to hear this and really appreciate you taking the time to leave this kind message
It's getting the account locked that's really harsh - nice one!!!
Brilliant, who knew how to compress existing pictures..? Thank you
Thank You Neil.....I could finally sort my moms phone... 😇
Thanks very much for the clear and concise description of what I need to do to reduce my Google storage... It took a couple of hours to compress the files as you indicated...my storage usage reduced from 95 to 48 percent... Next I will add the extra account for my photos and videos. Many thanks
Hi Neil. thanks alot. This video saved me. i was so stressed by the constant warning sign from gmail. Not only did i give you thumbs up but i also subscribed your channel. thanks once again.
Thanks for the kind message Mohamed, really pleased it got your account working again. Really appreciate your comment.
I watched this video and tried your recovery storage last up and currently waiting because it says it might take several hours lol I have a feeling it’s gonna work though. Terrific job mate.
Yeah that option doesn't exist anymore.
If anyone wants to just change the photos on your phone to storage saver more, the thing I did was copy my photos to my SD card, delete the photos in my albums on my internal storage and then backup the photos on my SD card while in storage saver mode.
It doesn't do all of them but I cut down the 2 gb of photos from my phone to like 200 mb
Thanks so much! Finally some tech advice that works! I did find that in order to change the Google Photos backup account on Apple devices (phone & tablet), I had to uninstall the app and then reinstall under the new photos account. Thanks again!
Recover storage only got me 4 GB back, but it was enough for me to get everything Google back working again so I could set up another account. It'd be nice to have an older Pixel that "can back up photos & videos in Storage saver quality at no charge" in Google Photos. That'd help a lot.
Ohhh... uninstalling the app is a great idea. Really glad something here might help.
Thanks Neil. This was extremely helpful... You saved us from Google's fraud..
This was so very helpful. Had to do a bit of adjusting to fit the app update but everything was manageable.
Thank you!
Thanks Neil for passing on this knowledge. Worked a treat again thanks very much
helpful video neil thanks for the help this is surely gonna help the problems am dealing with storage capacity and photo storage when am taking pictures with my family in my phone really enjoy the help your giving people it really helps people deal with problems with understanding exactly what problem they are dealing with am glad that i stop by this video step by step going through the video and seeing some good results when they followed every step broken apart in different chapters but it's more kindness given by people when they watch the entire video without skipping to the direct point of the video really shows how much people enjoy and appreciate all the help and work put into your content neil mossey to make them happy and have a good day hope to see more helpful tips and youtube updates and news high hopes through this month and christmas with family and friends 🤝👍🏼
Thanks for the kind comment @Comichilarious
Hi Neil, thanks for this video, it's exactly what I have been looking for.
I have one question though.
If I compress the size of the photo's in google photo's, does it not impact the original photo that is on my phone?
Since, if I delete a photo from google photos, it also deletes the original from my phone...
Hope you can help, thanks again :)
Happy, older techno-bimbo kiwi here - thank you Neil🌹
Thanks for the kind comment Chrissie, I appreciate it -- good luck with your storage!
Thank you. I wonder why even after having my own phone's internal storage, my photos are counted in google storage which in turn blackmails me with several ways? Wow!
I just found your video and follow your steps to see what happens in next few hours. I will update you guys
THANKS SO MUCH THIS HELPED ME A YEAR AGO AND IM BACK AGAIN TO USE YOUR GREAT VIDEO!!!
Hi Neil, you are the only one I trust. My question is how do i download my Google Photos and an external hard drive? if you have already done a video on this please let me know. Thank you in advance!
Hi TheBossMan - thanks for the question:
I have done a video on downloading, using a tool Google provide called Google Takeout
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This method is great for downloading everything in one go BUT it does remove all the hidden metadata from each photo: so the ISO, shutter speed, camera used etc etc etc. If you don't use these then this is best.
Takeout does provide those details, but as separate files.
If this isn't suitable, then the other way is to select all of your photos into one album on Google photos, then download the album.
The downside to this is that it might take a bit of work putting everything into one album.
Or you could manually select all photos for downloads, which also takes a bit of time.
Hope this helps - good luck with the backing up!
@@neilmossey thank you Neil!
@@neilmossey is the date stamp considered Metadata? That all I care about.
Super useful video. Thank you. I think when in chrome, they have changed 'storage' to 'manage storage ' which is higher up. Above the normal list.
Thanks for the tips Google truly is annoying sometimes and I've done everything from deleting hundreds of pics/videos, to uninstalling the app 3 times. I think the compression will work now 👍🏻
Did the compression worked?
The question I'm needing answered, is I want to delete all of my google photos from the browser, but not my phone, is it safe to do this when sync/backup is turned off, and after I'm done deleting my photos on google through the browser, do I turn the sync/backup on, will it clear everything anyway? I know this sounds like a dumb question I already know the answer to, thank you for the verification.
I hope this works. I've tried 18 other things and nothing made the slightest of difference. The biggest thing I'm learning is that is you change something in your photos setting within google it doesn't update everywhere. That's interesting.. I've been threatened with my gmail closing and storage being too large and I deleted thousands of videos and photos and nothing changed the size even after waiting over 48 hours to see if the numbers would change. Keeping my fingers crossed. Thank you. (on a side note - I was unable to get through the browser to change the convert storage option. I had to go onto my computer because it kept defaulting to the app version.) thank you!
Thanks for the kind comment and question.
If you deleted thousands of videos - it might be that they have gone into your Trash/Bin folder in Google Photos. They are kept there for 30 days(!) before being permanently deleted.
To fix this - go to google photos and find that Trash or Bin folder and select all to permanently delete.
Hope this helps - let me know how you get on
Hi Neil i must compliment you...have watched many "how to" vids but nòt as "clear" as yours thnx a bunch. May i pose some questions to you please?
My photo galery is constantly full...can i delete them after they'd been saved on my google photos? And how do i know all my gallery photos have all been saved before i delete them?
Hi Marion
Thanks for the kind comment and question.
You can in theory delete the photos on your phone after they have been saved on your Google photos, but the danger is that your Google Photos can then become full and Google offer to charge money to look after them.
The best way for me to save the photos is to transfer them to a memory stick, or hard drive for safety maybe using a laptop or computer.
The best way to check if your Gallery photos have been saved to Google photos is to check the google photos site either on your phone or laptop or tablet browser. Go to:
photos.google.com
Click on the top right hand corner to make sure you are signed in to google photos.
I hope this helps
So helpful, thank you!
Thanks for the kind comment Mandy!
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!!!! THANK YOU
Was looking exactly for this 😊
Omg this helped so much thank you so much! I’m so mixed up why I even have google storage? Is it because I have a gmail? I have iCloud.. the only reason I did this is because I could not receive emails!! If I delete a pic out of my
Google pictures it deletes out of the pics on my phone to 🤔. Does it stay in my iCloud ? I’m still confused lol
Yes it is really confusing. Hope you're able to turn off backup. And also there's a setting in settings so that if you delete something from Google Photos it doesn't delete it from your phone. Thanks for the kind comment.
Hi really thx for show this I am a teenager 17 I still don’t know how to do this shit about to get my first job. I need my personal email but Out of storage You really saved me I have to say again thank you.
Thanks for the kind message, I appreciate it and glad it might help. Good luck with the job!
Brilliant video.Thank you for your time and effort for sharing this.
Thanks for the very kind comment Billy, good luck with your storage!
thank you! exactly what i was looking for. it helped immensely
Follow this tips videos guys..its amazing happen to my gmail storage has a big storage now.
Brilliant, thank you. I'm not a back end computer whizz so will have to save this and follow it step by step. I'm one of those wally's who bought some storage 🙈😅
brillient tip ,thanks
this was super helpful thank you so much!!!
Thanks for the kind comment Mason - and you're so close to 1000 subs!
Your channel is awesome.
Thanks for the detailed tip and step by step guidance. it really helped me out
It's the 3rd times I'm watching this video and it helped me thank you so much teacher❤❤❤
Omg thank you so much for this tips it really helped me
God bless you man. You have helped me so much ❤
Awesome tricks! Thanx alot bro!
Thanks for the kind comment Sitanshu - good luck with your Google Drive!
Thank you so much, really appreciate your valuable help. 😊😊
Thanks this videos tutorials tips its help much.🎉
Thank you sooooo much! Very very helpful 😊
Hi Neil! Thank you for this information. I am a visual artist with a lot of process videos and photographs recorded daily. Wondering though, if I compress the files in that last step, will the image itself be less quality if I needed to use it later for printing or producing a small movie/tiktok? Just concerned about quality of the compressed images. Thank you again for your time, you are helping me SO much.
Hi Robin -thanks for the kind comment and question.
Not sure this answers them but here are some thoughts:
- I've naturally backed up all my original files from the phone to my hard drive/computer/memory stick for safety. Thinking if I need to ever blow these up to big photo print size I'll at least have the original size files. I've never done this and always do 4x6 prints from Google Photos, but completely understand the concern
- You probably know this but if you compress your photos on Google Photos, it doesn't alter the original photo and video files which reside on your phone.
- I find the Google Photos search function way to useful!
So I use Google Photos for searching, and can then locate that file on my backup drive if needed. (I've never needed to do this though...)
- I've seen a few times that when Google offers the paid subscription it offers to reinstate the Original size files, so they do seem to exist somewhere but I wouldn't rely on this...
- Takeout.google.com allows you to download everything Google holds, all the photos and videos: I'm not sure if these are Original Size, might be worth doing a test?
- The Partner Sharing works like a dream for me, and the shared photos say they are at Original Quality, even though the shared-from-photo was at Storage Saver quality... I'm not sure if this is the true original, but they don't take up any storage quota in the saved account...
Hope something here helps.
BTW Your channel is awesome!
Thanks again
I’ve done this a couple of times! Thank you!
I did it and it really helped. Thank you
This has really helped with my storage, thanks for your help 😊
❤ hey buddy seeing you from other part of the world 🎉 🌎 Bangladesh
thanks a lotzz !
Thank you so much for posting this video. Such a big help!
Thanks for the very kind comment Parafanormal Seekerz, I appreciate it!
Good luck with your Google Storage!
Thanks so much bro ,you have really helped me ,
Thanks for the kind message Chimwemwe, I really appreciate it - good luck with your Google storage!
Perfection.. Thank you so much! Subscribed!
Thank you so much for this helpful video, despite the version I worked on is much different. All regards.
Thanks for the kind comment, I appreciate it!
I find myself with this problem and here I am. First, very helpful video, and second, can I delete what I have store on Google photos without them being delete from my phone storage?
Thank you so much!!! What a helpful video! Also I have subscribed!! I love your attitude. NO MONEY TO GOOGLE!!! :)
Thanks for the v kind comment Sarah, really appreciate it! Good luck with your Google Photos!
Thanks, straight to the point and very effective
All these tips definitely helped. Thanks King
Thanks for help, just subscribed 😊
Well just got to tip #4 and i don't have similar options for the three bars menu, it is on my account. Please help if you can. Otherwise so far so good and easy to follow. Thank goodness for people like you to share this knowledge. I did subscribe to your channel so I don't lose you in hopes of trying to accomplish step #4 as well as future videos.
Okay my apolagies scratch that I found it, just looked different how I found the menu and now we wait while compressing for a few. Wish me luck!
Brilliant info and videos ........thanks Neil...........if only i could hit the 👍 10,000 times!!
Hi Thankyou somuch This helped me a lot from deleting photos
Once I share the two accounts, can I delete all the photos from the original account because they will now be saved on the new account taking up no storage?
hope im understanding this right, thanks neil!
I almost tried everything please make some video on itttt man please
thank you big help
Thanks Lloyd Merk Sangga
Great video. I've had my phone compressing the photos for nearly 15 hours. No indication of how long it lacks to complete this action. Is this a normal amount of time using high speed internet? Is the phone supposed to stay turned on while doing this or is standby ok. Thank you.
Works for me , thanks so much 🎉
Youre an absolute champion. Subscribed 😊Thankyou so much.
Thank you
Ill see tomorrow if this works or not and ill let you know
Wow that's brilliant to know thanks mate 😊
Excellent info & cheerful. Thanks
Thanks for the v kind comment Elda - I really appreciate it! Good luck with your Google Photos storage
OMG THIS ACTUALLY WORKS THX!!
Thank you so much
Thanks for the kind comment!
Great video Neil. That was really helpful. One question. To create a new account for my photos, do I need to create one from scratch with a new password? In your video it looks like you created a photo account using your existing password.
Thanks for the kind comment and question Charles.
I created a new account from scratch... once you sign in I think the Google Photos app 'remembers' so it's easy to flick between the two by clicking on the avatar picture in the top right hand corner: that brings up a mini menu of recent accounts for you to choose from.
Hope this helps - I'm sure you dont need or want to watch another video, but I experimented with the Partner Sharing in a way to not take up space here:
czcams.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/video.html
Good luck with your storage!
Thank you 👍👍It's very helpfull
Awesome. All the tips helped me a lot
Thanks for the kind message @elmarton6972 - good luck with your Google Photos storage...
Hi Neil! Thank you for this info, I love it! It worked for the most part. The only thing I noticed is that all my photos from the first account didn't back up to the second. Do you have any suggestions for me? Maybe I missed something? 🤷🏻♀️
Hi Sandrad, thanks for the kind comment and question. I do this so that I can see photos from the second account in the first, but with partner sharing it should work both ways round.
I find it tricky but I think you have to partner share and accept from the first to the second account. And make sure there's no 'start date' when asked, so all photos are shared.
Also, if you're doing this with the Google Photos app, make sure you're logged in on the right account with the avatar in the top right hand corner and then click on the "Sharing" tab on the bottom.
That should show your "other" account as a big avatar at the top.
Next to the avatar it should say "View all", click on that.
It then brings up the other account's photos and a dialogue at the top saying "Auto-save pictures from xxxxxx"
Click on the big "Get Started" button to start the partner sharing.
I hope some of the above appears on your app.
If it doesn't, start Partner Sharing from the beginning.
In the Google Photos app, click on your avatar,
Click on Photos Settings.
Scroll down to Partner Sharing and click on it.
That opens a dialogue to select the partner account.
But for it to work, you need to go into the other account to accept the invitation, and invite the other way round.
I think I need to make a video showing how it works!
Forgive me for Google not making this simple...
Thanks again.
@@neilmossey thank you so much!! Yes, that's a great idea for another video! So glad my son sent me your CZcams link! Appreciate you!!
Hi Sandra D I'm sure you've sorted this already, but I finally made the video walkthrough that might answer your original question - hope this helps!
czcams.com/video/hjMCcod6mCM/video.html
Hi Neil! Awesome, I will go check it out, thank you for letting me know about it! 😁
That was a great video Neil, I'm going to go try it out! I appreciate you!
This is pure gold! Tks a lot sir
Thanks mate. You're a life saver!
Brilliant thank you so much!
Great tutorial - but before watching this video, I had already clicked on Free Up Space option. Now those photos must have got deleted from my phone? Any way to undo it?
Hi thanks for the kind comment and so sorry to hear this. There are some things you can try - and obviously try them quickly
Go into google photos, either on the app, or better (because it's easier to see) on a desktop browser.
Go into the recycle bin/bin/trash folder
Google photos keeps things there, if they were deleted there - for 30 days.
Fingers crossed they are there.
There's also an archive folder in Google photos - it's on the left hand side bar - the 'clean up' may have only put the folder and pictures in there.
You can restore from Archive folder.
Other options:
Go to takeout.google.com while logged into your account - quickly - and this is where you can download everything Google has stored on the account. The pictures and folder may still be there
I have a video walkthrough here:
czcams.com/video/9lU-jfTKf5s/video.html
Hope something here helps and thanks again - good luck!
Cant like this video enough times!! 👍🏽🤛🏽
A bulk of my storage says device backup. How do I decrease that? You are great!!
Compressing my existing photos now, hopefully it works for me as well!
Good luck Savannah and big thanks for taking the time to leave a kind message.
@@neilmossey I'm so amazed it completely worked! I went from 15 GB to 7 GB in a few hours.
@@savannahliz great stuff - thanks for the update.
It's not easy but if you can figure out the partner sharing to set Google Photos onto a new/different account and activate partner sharing to your original account, you can delete them off your new account with them saved to your original account with no space taken!
But it's not totally easy!