How to Share Google One Storage With Your Family
Running out of Google's free 15GB storage limit is common, given the multitude of services it offers. Purchasing a Google One membership, with its 100GB base storage, solves this issue. Fortunately, you can share this storage with your family, but the process isn't straightforward. This guide explains how to share Google One storage with your family.
What Is Google One?
Google One is a subscription plan that provides additional cloud storage for Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. It also offers benefits such as access to Google experts for help, family sharing, and cool features such as Magic Eraser and Dark Web monitoring.
The service follows the monthly and annual subscription models while offering multiple storage plans catering to different budgets and storage requirements:
- Basic: $1.99/month or $19.99/year for 100GB
- Standard: $2.99/month or $29.99/year for 200GB
- Premium: $9.99/month or $99.99/year for 2TB
If these plans don't cover your storage needs, you have the option of splurging anywhere between $25 and $150 per month for a more generous storage limit ranging from 5TB to 30TB.
Step 1: Set Up a Family Group
First, set up a family group to share your Google One storage. If you’ve already created one, you can skip this step.
Go to the Google Families page and click "Get Started"(you can access the link on your desktop, laptop, phone, or tablet).
Click on the "Create a family group"button. A family manager manages group members and the Google apps and services shared with them.
Confirm your status as a family manager.
Add up to five family members by entering their names or email addresses. Children below 13 can be added via Google Family Link. You can skip this step for now if you want.
Voilà! Your family group is created. If you didn’t skip the previous step, your family members will receive an invitation email to join your family group. Once they join, you’ll be notified by email.
If you skipped the third step, you can add your family
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