Google One, the cloud storage service that Google launched in 2018, will now back up your iOS or Android phone for free with your Google account. The iOS application will be able to back up your photos, videos, contacts and calendar events, consolidating what different services like Photos and Drive offer in one place, Android Authority Notes Meanwhile, the Android app, which could already back up a variety of files from your phone, will now offer backups without a Google One membership.
Along with backing up your files, Google One is also being updated to make it easier to manage the files that are being stored. This storage management feature is available from the app or the web, and will allow you to manage saved files from Drive, Gmail and Photos in one place.
You get 15 GB of storage for free with your personal Google account (new features don’t support G Suite accounts), and Google offers paid storage plans that start at $ 1.99 a month for 100 GB of storage. Google says the new features will be released for Android in the coming days, and that the new iOS app will be released soon. You can find a complete list of countries where Google One is available here.
