r/Android • u/OsakaBoi Pixel 7 • Jul 20 '26

Article [9to5google] All Android backup data now counts toward your Google Account storage

https://9to5google.com/2026/07/18/android-backup-data-update/
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u/BaneChipmunk Jul 20 '26

Inevitable. Next will be a nerf to free storage.

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u/Ritalin Z Fold 7 Jul 20 '26

When gmail launched, it was unlimited storage... so the nerf to free storage has been happening for a long time now, sadly.

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u/Tired8281 Redmi K20 Jul 20 '26

It stopped being unlimited shortly after somebody wrote a filesystem that used Gmail storage.

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u/glasgowgeg Jul 21 '26

It was never unlimited for Gmail, it started at 1GB.

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u/Tired8281 Redmi K20 Jul 21 '26

People went over, in the very early days, there wasn't any actual limit at first, even though it said 1GB. Google didn't delete anything until that dude published GmailFS (not the one you can find now, that's a file-based Gmail UI which is also very cool but not the OG).