By Jason Cohen
Publication Date: 2026-05-28 12:47:00
Are you getting warnings that your Google Drive storage is almost full? You’ve got two choices: to pay for extra space or to clean up your current storage. You could pay for more space through a Google One subscription, which starts at $1.99 per month for 100GB. Google AI subscriptions also include additional storage increments. But if you don’t want another subscription, I have some handy tricks to help you clear out your Drive storage quickly.
By default, your Google account comes with 15GB of free storage (though you may need to do a little extra work to unlock all that room). However, it can fill up faster than you’d think, between emails, photos, and files you have saved in Gmail, Photos, and Drive. Whether you’re on a personal account or an organizational Google Workspace account, to free up more storage, you need to find the files you no longer need and delete them.
It might sound painful, but I’ve got some tricks to help you get your Google Drive storage…
