A free onedrive user today has 15gb, and can get up to 15 extra gigabytes with the camera roll storage bonus. The good news is that microsoft finally backs down and has decided to give onedrive users the option to keep their 15 gb free storage plan as well as their camera roll bonus. That will also let users who unlocked the 15gb camera roll bonus keep their extra storage, which means some users may have up to 30gb of free storage from microsoft. Microsoft has announced that that onedrive users can optin to keep their current 15gb of free storage and the extra free 15gb if they have the camera roll enabled on their smartphone, if they opt. Microsoft allowing onedrive users on free tier to keep. Microsoft allows onedrive users to keep their 15gb of free. Microsoft reconsiders, lets you keep your 15gb of onedrive storage. Android, ios and windows phones are supported but ill show you how i got it working on my samsung galaxy s4. Microsoft reverses course on onedrive, restores 15gb free tier. Last year, microsoft announced plans to drop the free onedrive storage amount from 15gb down to 5gb, and also discontinue the 15gb camera roll bonus. But you will need to opt in to keep these extra free spaces by the end of january 2016. The 15 gb camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued.
Microsoft had announced the changes to onedrive last year. Windows smartphone owners question microsofts commitment. Act now to keep your onedrive 15 gb free space and camera. The company has decided you can keep your 15gb of free onedrive storage and 15gb of camera roll bonus storage, but that extra cloud storage doesnt happen by default you must manually. Microsoft onedrives 15gb free cloud storage reduces to. Microsoft reconsiders, lets you keep your 15gb of onedrive. Microsoft had started emailing users of its onedrive cloud storage service who didnt optin to microsofts previous onedrive offer that the reduction from 15gb to just 5gb of free space will occur on july 27. The free storage upgrade 15gb base and 15gb camera roll bonus is also available for windows phone, android and windows users. Your chance to claim 15gb of free storage of microsoft. Microsoft has doubled its 15gb cloud storage space for free users if they activate the camera backup feature in its onedrive app for android or ios before the end of september. How to get 30gb of free storage with onedrive right now. Here is how you get an additional 15gb of storage on.
Software onedrive users can keep their free 15gb of storage and camera roll bonus after all, if they optin by jan. Camera roll bonus upped from 3gb to 15gb on your onedrive. Microsoft reverses course on onedrive, restores 15gb free. Once you have done that, you will see a new message showing that you were successful and you will now be able to keep the original 15gb of free storage that your were given by onedrive as well as the free 15gb that you were given as a bonus for using onedrives camera roll. The redmond giant will also eliminate the 15gb free camera roll bonus on onedrive accounts on that same date. As it could be expected, no user that relies on onedrive liked these changes. Select a upload quality to turn on automatic upload to onedrive. This also applies to anyone who already uses the onedrive camera roll on windows phone.
Microsoft will let you keep your free 15gb of onedrive. But be sure to hurry up because you can only claim back your full 15gb free storage space until 31 january 2016. So, if you use microsoft onedrive and are from a timezone where the clock is yet to reach 1st february then buck up and claim the free storage right now. Onedrive users who sign up by january 31, 2016 will be able to keep their 15gb of free storage and 15gb camera roll bonus, even after microsoft reduces its free storage tier to. Microsoft reinstates free 15gb onedrive storage, unlimited.
I activated autoupload in the photoapp, but i still got only 15gb on onedrive. Automatically save your phones camera roll to onedrive and access your photos in the mobile app, online, or on your pc or mac. Microsoft onedrive offering 30gb of free cloud storage for. Then, when the free storage limit drops to 5gb, and the extra 15gb camera roll bonus is discontinued, your account wont be affected. If all went well, a confirmation message should pop up saying that your onedrive wont be affected by the upcoming storage changes. Also, i had camera roll installed prior to this promo but deactivated. To get extra 15gb we need to claim our camera roll bonus.
Anywhere editing access and edit office app files or pdfs from your pc, mac, phone, or tablet. Microsoft will reduce free onedrive storage to 5gb and. If you follow these instructions here then you are able to keep the storage. Microsoft has recently issued an announcement for those who want to keep free storage in onedrive, you have to act fast though. Create and work together on word, excel or powerpoint documents. Lucky for me i got a couple referral bonuses and the camera rollextra storage bonus still. Sunday, january 31 is the last day that current onedrive users can claim their 15gb of free storage, along with the additional 15gb for. Microsoft is emailing onedrive users to tell them that its planned changes which will reduce free storage from 15gb to 5gb, and remove the 15gb camera roll bonus will come into effect on july 27. Microsoft provided some great news for users of its free onedrive service. How to boost your free microsoft onedrive storage back up. However, as the verge points out, all onedrive users need to manually optin to keep. Without reactivating camera roll i checked my onedrive account and saw i had automatically been given the extra 15 gb of space. Instead of axing storage from 15 gb to 5 gb, you can now keep the full 15 gb.
Microsoft offering 15gb extra of free onedrive storage. How to get an extra 15 gb of onedrive storage for free. Get back the 10gb of free onedrive storage microsoft is. Microsoft extends olive branch after onedrive cloud. While microsoft is sticking to its recently announced plans of removing unlimited onedrive storage, the company has however now decided that is going to allow onedrive users to keep their existing 15gb of free storage and the 15gb camera roll bonus 30gb in total of free storage. From early 2016 the free space will be cut down to 5gb, and the camera roll storage bonus will be discontinued. The 15 gb bonus of camera roll is being used since the total storage capacity of onedrive is 30 gb, which is the 15 gb free that offers plus the 15 gb of bonus, which will be used according to the number of elements on the cloud. Back in early november microsoft announced a number of drastic changes to its onedrive cloud storage service. Microsoft to soon reduce free onedrive storage from 15gb. Look at onedrives storage page and you will see 15 gb listed next to camera roll bonus thats how the extra free storage is accounted, and added to your plan.
Once camera backup is turned on, the free 15gb camera roll bonus is instantly added to your account to make the total free storage as 30gb. Camera roll not using bonus 15 gb storage on onedrive. Its possible for you to keep your base storage quota and camera roll bonus, even after the changes roll out. Included among those changes, due to take effect early next year, was a reduction of the 15gb free storage to just 5gb and abolishing the camera roll bonus altogether. Tap or click on onedrive s camera roll select a upload quality to turn on automatic upload to onedrive once camera backup is turned on, the free 15gb camera roll bonus is instantly added to your account to make the total free storage as 30gb. Microsoft is also discontinuing the 15gb camera roll bonus offer. Microsoft will let you keep your free 15gb of onedrive storage if you ask nicely. Although microsoft promoted the 15gb camera roll bonus last year primarily to iphone owners, the customers who beefed loudest last week about.
Can the 15gb onedrive camera roll bonus still be unlocked. The lesson learnt is to be more weary of offers from companies and really analyse what the offer means today and in 5 years time. How to double your free onedrive storage to 30gb pcworld. Free onedrive storage dropped from 15gb to 5gb for all. Whenever a friend, family member, coworker or even complete. Onedrive users can keep their free 15gb of storage and. How to keep your free onedrive space before microsofts. Previously, this allotted users enough storage to backup any pictures. Onedrive will also cease to provide a camera roll bonus of 15gb on that day. They just have to activate it once for getting the bonus space. Microsoft now confirms that onedrive users can still keep their free 15gb of storage and 15gb of camera roll bonus, provided if they optin by january 31.
Finally, microsoft is offering an optin for its biggest fans to keep their 15gb of free storage after storage limits are cut early next year and to keep their 15gb camera roll bonus, if they. Here are the direct links to download the app to your phone. The 15gb bonus is not taken as a separate storage of onedrive but is integrated into the existing one. Download the onedrive app for anywhere access, to share, edit and annotate your files on the go. Get free extra 15gb onedrive storage to double disk space. Thats it, you can now keep both your 15gb of free storage and 15gb camera roll bonus.
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