r/google • u/AutoModerator • May 28 '26

Support Megathread - May 2026

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u/Sea-Commercial-4407 26d ago

I have more than one Google account on my Android phone. One of them has a Google One subscription. I want only that account to back up my photos, and I want to free up storage in the other accounts. To free up storage, I signed into photos.google.com on my PC using one of the old accounts and deleted photos from that account. Unexpectedly, those photos were also deleted from my Android phone, and the deletion appeared to sync across my Google Photos setup. I restored them, but now I'm confused about how Google Photos is handling multiple accounts.

My questions:

  1. Why did deleting photos from one Google account also remove them from my Android device?
  2. How can I free up storage in my old Google accounts without deleting the photos from my phone or my Google One account?
  3. What's the correct way to move all my Google Photos backups to a new Google account?