{"id":450851,"date":"2026-05-15T21:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:19:17","slug":"google-could-limit-new-gmail-accounts-to-only-5gb-of-free-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450851\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Could Limit New Gmail Accounts to Only 5GB of Free Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Google may cut the free storage for new Gmail accounts from 15GB to 5GB, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-free-15gb-gmail-storage-ending-explanation-3667360\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" class=\"c-regularLink\">according to a report from Android Authority.<\/a> Those who want a storage upgrade from those 5GB accounts would need to provide a phone number to Google to unlock the extra gigabytes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">A Google representative confirmed that it&#8217;s trying out new account options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re testing a new storage policy for new accounts created in select regions that will help us continue to provide a high-quality storage service to our users, while encouraging users to improve their account security and data recovery,&#8221; the representative said in a statement to CNET. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if the regions where this is being tested include the US. Android Authority reported that accounts with only 5GB of storage were primarily in African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Google has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/google-cloud-ai-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"c-shortcodeLink c-shortcodeLink-active\" target=\"_blank\">expanding the tiers of paid accounts it offers<\/a>, combining Gemini AI features into bundles. It recently added three new tiers focused on AI features, starting at $8 a month with 200GB of storage included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google may cut the free storage for new Gmail accounts from 15GB to 5GB, according to a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-450851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}