It will be more useful for people who pay for Google One – the base membership plan includes 100GB of storage for $ 2 per month, enough to make Drive, Photos, and phone backups much more feasible. But regardless of whether you pay for Google One or not, it doesn’t hurt to have another option to back up your phone. As before, paid Google One memberships include storage that you can share with up to five other family members, live customer support, and various benefits (right now you can get 10 percent credit on the Google Store, for example).
The new Google One app for iOS will also include a storage manager, making it much easier to clean up the various data that might be consuming your storage. That’s already available on the web, but given how much we all trust our phones these days, it’s a good idea to have it available in the app, too. The new features for free users will be available on Android through the Play Store “in the coming days”, while the Google One iOS application will be “available soon”.