Photos and videos tend to take up the bulk of our devices’ storage space. If you find you’re running out of space on your phone, Google Photos has a new feature that will let you bulk delete photos and videos that have already been stored online.
So the recent trip photos you just uploaded using your PC and viewed from the app, it all gets cached in the memory. So when you open them next time, it will load from the cache, and doesn’t need internet. That caching takes up storage space. Thankfully, Google Photos have the option to limit cache size. For that, follow the steps below.
‘Photos’ is online software which puts all your pictures from gallery to online Google account, the one which you’re using your android phone. So if your software is taking so much of space it means you probably have a lot of pictures in your gallery (from camera, downloaded pictures, WhatsApp images, etc.). The gallery itself might be 3-4 GB.
You can either do this piecemeal through Apple’s Photos app, or you can use a built-in Google Photos tool to do so all at once. To use Google Photos, open the app and tap the three-line menu icon on the top left portion of the screen. Select “Free up space” from the menu.
Does free up space on Google Photos delete original photos?
Whenever you use the Free Up Space option in Google Photos, all photos and videos that are already safely backed up to the cloud will be removed from local storage. In other words, Google Photos will delete the originals.
This of course begs the query “Does deleting photos from Google Photos delete them from your phone?”
Google says that this new “Free up space” option in the Google Photos app settings will remove the device copies of backed up photos and videos, but technically they’re not “backed up” if you delete them from your phone and then they only live in one place (Google’s servers).
How much data does Google Photos use on your phone?
I have 400k pictures in Google photos, and the ‘data’ space used by Google photos on my phone is around 4GB. Clearing the ‘data’, sets the app back to where it was when it was installed. You have to log back in to your account, and the app gradually rebuilds the data back to where it was before it was cleared.
When we were writing we ran into the question “Should you use Google Photos for iOS to manage your iPhone’s storage?”.
An answer is that, many i Phone users have wrestled with storage limits, especially when it comes to managing the device’s camera roll. Apart from deleting old pics and purchasing a paid i. Cloud subscription, there’s another option for alleviating storage woes : using Google Photos for i, and os.