Syncing Google storage with iCloud on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Lucin222 wrote:

IPhone 15 Promax with Gmail storage problem

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Original Title: I have icloud storage but my Google storage is getting full. If I delete things from goofle will they still be available on icloud?

What exactly are you syncing?

what does google support or their help forum say?

Lucin222 wrote:

Google says I am at 85% storage capacity. I only have gmail on one device- my iPhone. I do have an astounding number of gmails. Google says I will have no access unless I delete a LOT or buy storage. I guess I thought having Apple storage was enough. This is a complete surprise.

Apple storage/memory has nothing to do with google storage.

You'll either need to delete a bunch of emails to bring down storage or upgrade your google storage which is only 1.99 or 2.99 a month.

I don't use Google Photos. I'm not even sure if that's the same as Google Storage. And I found their Google Photos site rather muddled and unhelpful. But my sense is that you can choose either to have your Photos "synchronized" or not. If you have agreed for them to be synchronized, and you've told your phone that it's OK, then when you delete a picture anywhere, it will be deleted everywhere. Personally, I'd never let Google do that.

I think you need to examine your Google account and see what you've agreed to.

Lucin222 wrote:

Thank you to those trying to help me. I have never heard about synching with Google before now. I have never thought about Google in relation to my photos. I just know my photos are on my phone and I pay for extra icloud storage through Apple. I have never thought about what was going to happen with all my gmail. I have not been diligent about deleting them. I do delete trash and junk but going through thousands (yes thousands) of emails is daunting. Trying to but afraid I will lose recipes, docs, photos. I guess I was delusiional thinking I was protected with icloud.

Simple solution since you're afraid, as I previously stated, purchase more google storage.

Lucin222 wrote:

That is a last resort solution but I am trying to find out if it’s redundant or not. What are the parameters/boundaries between Apple storage and Google storage. Do they overlap? Duplicate? Do they have completely opposite functions? If I had more information, I could decide what to do.

They are separate things.

Iphone storage and icloud is all Apple product.

google storage is all Google's product.

The time it took you to respond to all these post you could've bought the extra google storage again for either 1.99 or 2.99 a month and been done with it.

Lucin222 wrote:

That is a last resort solution but I am trying to find out if it’s redundant or not. What are the parameters/boundaries between Apple storage and Google storage. Do they overlap? Duplicate? Do they have completely opposite functions? If I had more information, I could decide what to do.

https://one.google.com/about/plans

OR you can just spend all your time clearing out your inbox, sent, junk and trash folder.