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Google employee reveals new trick to free up space on your full iPhone

By Sean Keach

Google employee reveals new trick to free up space on your full iPhone

A GOOGLE employee has shared a clever trick to avoid clogging up your iPhone's storage.

It works using Google Chrome, so you'll need to download that first.

You can get the web browser for free via Apple's App Store for iOS on iPhone.

The trick lets you save photos directly to Google Drive or Google Photos.

That means you can skip saving them to your iPhone's Photos app, which would use up valuable physical storage space.

And you don't need to pay to keep them in the cloud either.

Google accounts come with 15GB of free storage for Drive, so you'll be able to keep plenty of items in there.

The new trick was revealed by Google's Katia Muradyan, a product manager for the Chrome browser.

Katia explained: "Tired of getting the 'Storage Almost Full' notification on your iPhone or iPad?

"Good news: You can now free up storage space on your device by saving content from the web to Drive and Photos directly from Chrome on iOS."

If you haven't got Google Chrome, download it from the App Store.

And if you do already have it, go into the App Store to make sure that it's updated with the latest software version.

Then find a photo or file that you want to save on Chrome.

For a file, tap on the Google Drive option when you go to save it.

"Files you download from Chrome on iOS will now be saved in a new Drive folder called 'Saved from Chrome' - instantly helping you free up storage on your device," Katia said.

If you want to save it to Photos instead, it's a similar process.

Just long-press on the photo and choose the 'Save in Google Photos' option.

The only real catch to this feature is that you'll need to be signed in to at least one Google account for it to work.

It's also worth bearing in mind that Google Drive and Google Photos use cloud storage, which means they're hosted on the internet and not on your device.

That's great for saving storage, but it also means you'll need an internet connection to view those photos or files if they're not also saved on your device.

If you want to make saved copies on your iPhone, you can do that at any time.

And bear in mind that if you hit the maximum storage on Google Drive, you'll need to pay to get extra space.

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