{"id":1008870,"date":"2026-05-20T10:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008870"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:53:23","slug":"goodbye-free-15gb-storage-why-your-free-google-space-just-shrank-by-66-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/20\/goodbye-free-15gb-storage-why-your-free-google-space-just-shrank-by-66-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, free 15GB storage: Why your free Google space just shrank by 66 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, a standard Google account offered one of the biggest perks that none of its rivals managed to offer \u2013 free storage. With every new account, Google offered 15GB of free cloud storage shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. It was a generous freebie that set Google apart from competitors like Apple, which has stubbornly stuck to a 5GB iCloud storage limit for years. In 2026, though, Google is shaking things up \u2013 slash the free \u2018no-questions-asked\u2019 storage by up to 66 per cent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, a standard Google account offered one of the biggest perks that none of its rivals managed to offer \u2013 free storage. With every new account, Google offered 15GB of free cloud storage shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. It was a generous freebie that set Google apart from competitors like Apple, which has stubbornly stuck to a 5GB iCloud storage limit for years. In 2026, though, Google is shaking things up \u2013 slash the free \u2018no-questions-asked\u2019 storage by up to 66 per cent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008907,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008870\/revisions\/1008907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}