Published May 14, 2026, 5:46 PM EDT Quentyn is a career tech journalist with nearly two decades of experience. He has written thousands of stories for publications such as The Verge , Forbes , Consumer Reports, and Business Insider . Quentyn specializes in reporting about mobile technology (including smartphones, tablets,  wearables, and accessories), home theater, gaming, computing, and cameras. In his free time, you can find him abusing any variety of gaming controllers or learning about his latest muses (most recently, drones and cooking). Sign in to your MakeUseOf account Summary Google is cutting some accounts to 5GB unless you verify by phone at sign-up. Existing accounts still show 15GB; new accounts require SMS verification to get 15GB. Google One Help pages no longer promise 15GB explicitly; most users may never notice. It feels like ages ago that Google generously bumped Gmail's standard free storage limit to 15GB.…