How to share your Google One storage with your family
Image: Google A colleague here at The Verge tells this story: This weekend my wife was like, Google says I'm almost out of storage!' and I was like We have 2TB with Google One, that's not possible!'" What was the problem? Well, just because you've established family sharing with your Google account, you don't automatically start to share your extra storage from Google One. You've got to turn it on.
First, the basics: Google One is essentially the paid version of Google Drive. It gives you extra storage (beyond the free 15GB) to use across Drive, Gmail, and Photos, and lets you share that storage with up to five family members. Plans begin at 100GB for $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year. If that's not enough, you can go up to 2TB for $9.99 a month /...