{"id":6691,"date":"2026-05-19T23:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:38:47","slug":"google-account-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2026\/05\/google-account-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Account part deux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">In a previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2026\/04\/google-account\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2026\/04\/google-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>, I wrote about storing new photos in a new Google account. This is a risk reduction plan to prevent Google Photos from disabling my main email address, which is used for nearly everything. New pictures and email are now in 2 different accounts. The existing files\/pictures remain where they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything was fine until my photo account was disabled for violating the Terms of Service.  Google thinks that it was an account created by a bot.   An appeal quickly sorted that out.  A small voice tells me I shouldn&#8217;t have used a common phone number for both photos and the mail account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My intuition was proven right.  A 9to5 Google article, states the following from a user&#8217;s screenshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your account includes 5 GB of storage. Now get even more storage space with your phone number for Google Photos, Drive, and Gmail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlock 15 GB storage at no cost by using your phone number<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep 5 GB storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google will use your phone number to make sure s<strong>torage is added only once per person.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Understand Google Account storage management policy at g.co\/help\/storagepolicy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bold text emphasis is by me.  After seeing this, I added a different phone number for Photos account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/14\/google-account-free-storage-changes-15gb\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/05\/14\/google-account-free-storage-changes-15gb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, I wrote about storing new photos in a new Google account. This is a risk reduction plan to prevent Google Photos from disabling my main email address, which is used for nearly everything. New pictures and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[232,625],"class_list":["post-6691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-backup","tag-google","tag-google-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6698,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions\/6698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}