New accounts are now defaulting to 5GB same as iCloud , with the full 15GB available only if you have entered your phone number during setup. The prompt users are seeing reads: “Your account includes 5GB of storage. Now get even more storage space with your phone number.” The policy change took effect sometime around March 18, 2026 via 9To5Google . That’s when the company updated its support page language from definitive to conditional. Initially, the support page read...
