OneDrive - How to Keep your free 15 GB of Storage

In November, Microsoft made significant changes to its OneDrive storage plans that ended up limiting the amount of storage available to most users.

Storage that you got for free as part of the service will be reduced from 15GB to 5GB. Users obviously are not very happy with this decision, especially if they use OneDrive for photo uploads.

Luckily, Microsoft had a slight change of heart, and as a concession for those users, the OneDrive Team is offering the opportunity to opt-in until January 31st, 2016 to keep it.

Keep Your Free 15 GB of OneDrive Storage

Go to https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/ then click on Keep your free storage.

You will now have your base 15 GBs of storage in addition to 15 GBs for your camera roll.

This is great news for free users of OneDrive and makes the idea of saving all of your photos videos to OneDrive relevant again. 

However, Microsoft are not bringing back unlimited storage, but if you have an Office 365 subscription, you get a 1TB as part of the package. If you get the Office 365 family plan you get five accounts, and each of those accounts gets 1 TB of OneDrive storage. For the average user, this should be more than enough storage space.

It’s worth repeating: You have to sign up to keep your Free 15GB of OneDrive Storage before January 31st, 2016. Make sure you get it right away, it  takes two seconds to secure it.