How to Fix Gmail Storage Full

Are you facing an “Account storage is full” error on Gmail or your Google account?

In this case, you will be restricted from sending or receiving new emails.

Gmail is part of Google One, which contains Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos.

You can subscribe to a Google one plan by upgrading your account.

If you want to avoid purchasing, there are methods that can be used to free up your storage free.

In this article, I will tell you why is your Gmail account storage full and how to fix the “Account storage full” Google error.

Why is my Gmail account storage full?

Your Google account storage is full because you have exceeded the free limit of 15 GB storage available for free accounts.

The storage limit is imposed on Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos.

If you have reached the threshold, you will be stopped from receiving or sending new emails.

If you do not use Gmail very often and the storage is full, it means that the space of Google Photos or Google Drive is full.

To check your storage, you can use this link: https://one.google.com/storage.

This link will give you full details on your storage and how much storage you have used on each Google application.

If your most space is consumed on Google Drive, you have to delete old, unused, or unwanted files from there.

How to fix Gmail storage full

To fix Gmail storage full, the best bet is to delete junk, spam, or read mail.

Just keep in mind that the storage of your Gmail is shared with your Google Drive and Google Photos.

Therefore, if your Google Drive is consuming enough storage, you have to delete some files.

The same is the case with Google Photos, if it has too many photos, you have to remove useless photos to free up some storage.

You can easily free up space by visiting this link: https://one.google.com/storage/management.

On the page, you will be able to see if you have items in the trash or spam folder that you can remove.

Additionally, Google will let you review large items that you can review before deleting them.

Method 1: Delete junk, spam, or read mail

1. Go to the Gmail app and tap on the menu icon.
2. Select “Spam” and empty the spam folder by deleting all of the emails there.
3. Tap on the menu icon again, select “Bin”, and permanently delete all of the emails in Bin.
4. Tap on the menu icon again, select “Promotions”, and remove all the emails there by deleting them.

Note: You have to get rid of other unimportant emails in your inbox by deleting them to free up space.

Tip: Search for “has:attachment larger:10M” on Gmail that will help you to find large sized emails so you can delete them.

Method 2: Delete unused Google Drive files

1. Visit this link https://drive.google.com/.
2. Delete large or unused files to free up space.
3. Go to the trash and remove the files there by deleting them.

Tip: You can also find large files, you need to go to this link https://one.google.com/storage/management and click on “Review and clean up” under “Large files”.

Method 3: Delete media in Google Photos

1. Visit this link https://photos.google.com/.
2. Delete large or unwanted photos to free up space.
3. Go to the trash and remove the photos there by deleting them.

Method 4: Upgrade your Google One account

• If your emails, files, and photos are very important and you do not want to delete them, the only way is to upgrade your Google One account to get more storage.
• To upgrade your Google One account, visit this link: https://one.google.com/about/plans.
• It has several plans such as Basic, Standard, and Premium.
• My recommendation is the Basic plan because it offers 100 GB of space (6.7x larger than the free plan).

Note: The prices might be different from country to country (if you’re a resident of Singapore, the cost of basic plan for you will be SGD 2.79 per month).

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