Google has always been very generous with its cloud storage, but that policy finally started to change last year. In addition to losing free uploads of high-quality photos, all files created in Drive will start counting against your total storage space on June 1st. While this leaves most of us with just a few months before these changes take effect, Workspace and G Suite users have been given an extension, changing the date of these accounts to February 1, 2022.
This policy delay means that all files created in Drive, including Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings, Forms and Jamboard, will not be included in the data quota for a Workspace account until next year. Photo uploads are not affected by this change and will still count towards storage as of June 1, regardless of the type of account. According to Google, this extension for Workspace users was specifically designed to give the company time to implement new administrative tools to manage and view data allocation. In February, administrators will be able to see how much space Documents and other files are taking up on each individual drive.
When Google changes Workspace accounts next year, the same rules that will take effect for personal users in June will apply. Any unedited files created before February 2022 will not count towards the storage space, but all new documents – along with any edited content – will be included in your account’s total data usage. Although it takes some time before Google launches its new tools, administrators can now use Workspace reports to see how data is broken down by user.
