Google is planning to uninstall your inactive accounts, but a quick solution is possible.
Key points:
- This means that you will have to start paying for additional space anyway once your free 15 GB storage capacity is full.
- This new policy will take effect from June 1, 2021, and also by June 1, 2023 (that is, after two years).
- Google One users who might pay the monthly fee will not be impacted by this move.
- You may not be involved in any of Google’s sites, because not everyone needs them.
Google recently announced that all your images and videos on Google Photos would be added to the related Google Drive account beginning in July 2021. This means that you will have to start paying for additional space anyway once your free 15 GB storage capacity is full.
It looks like the group is planning to save some more capacity on its servers, however. Therefore it is making several policy changes about the use of its services for Gmail, Docs, and Google Images.
Accounts inactive from 2 years will be removed:
Google would uninstall user data from its common services on accounts that have been inactive for even more than two years, according to the modifications.
This new policy will take effect from June 1, 2021, and also by June 1, 2023 (that is, after two years), if the accounts are inactive, Google will remove data from Sheets, Slides, Drive, Docs, Jamboard, Gmail, Images, Sketches, Forms, and Pages.
Further firm addded:
If you don’t want your data removed, the company has added that they will continue to use the service with both the associated account through the Google app or even the browser to keep it working.
Interestingly, Google One users who might pay the monthly fee will not be impacted by this move. Google Workspace (formerly Google G Suite for Company Workers), G Suite for Education, or G Suite for Charities would also not apply.
How would one stop that?
You may not be involved in any of Google’s sites, because not everyone needs them. But if you’ve already used a service as well as might want an active account, it’s a smart idea to keep it running.
It’s a pretty easy trick to keep Google from disabling your account. When you sign in to your account then connect to the internet, you only need to use Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Images regularly on the web or cell phone.
You don’t have to use them extensively, truly. Maybe you can only take a look at some files, delete some addresses, etc.
Google has said it would inform you many times before any content is deleted, so you need to keep an eye upon this.
