Google Drive Archives

Google Drive dark mode is finally here, and here's how to turn it on your Pixel phone

Google Drive users have long awaited the arrival of dark mode, a feature that has become ubiquitous across various digital platforms. Now, with Google’s latest update, this much...

Apr 22, 2024 1 Min Read

Android

Google Drive 'request approval' spam notification on Pixel and other Android devices under investigation

Google Pixel and other Android users of Google Drive are facing a frustrating onslaught of spam notifications. These notifications falsely claim that someone is requesting approval to access a shared...

Mar 01, 2024 1 Min Read

Bugs and Issues

Google Drive not letting users play videos, throws 'allowed playbacks has been exceeded' error

Google Drive users have been dealing with an issue for years where they get an ‘allowed playbacks has been exceeded’ error when trying to play videos. And Google...

Feb 20, 2024 2 Min Read

Bugs and Issues

Google Drive's third-party cookies change broke HTML embeds, but there's a potential workaround

Update 1 (January 31, 2024) 05:50 pm (IST): In a new turn of events, the bug report has again been labeled as “Won’t fix (Intended behavior...

Jan 23, 2024 3 Min Read

Bugs and Issues

Google Drive app crashing when using 'copy to clipboard' function on Android for some

Over the past few days, some Android users have been experiencing a bizarre issue where the Google Drive app is randomly crashing for them when using the ‘copy to clipboard...

Dec 11, 2023 1 Min Read

Bugs and Issues

Google Drive users' reports about missing files & data under investigation

Google is looking into an issue where some Google Drive users are reporting missing files and data from their cloud storage accounts. The issue was spotted by a South Korean...

Nov 29, 2023 1 Min Read

Google

Google Drive scanner gets a new homescreen Pixel Camera shortcut in latest UI update

About a week ago, Google Messages picked up a new update that added a camera shortcut on the homescreen. This shortcut opens your camera app to quickly take a picture...

Nov 29, 2023 1 Min Read

Apps

[Updated] Google's huge global outage, almost all apps & services down at once including YouTube, Gmail, Play Store

New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. Original story (published on December 14, 2020) follows: Almost all online services and apps offered by Google are suddenly...

Oct 04, 2023 2 Min Read

Android

Google Drive backup not working or disappeared for some Android users, issue allegedly being looked into

Google Drive is undoubtedly one of the most preferred cloud storage services that provide customers with safe and secure access to their information. Launched in 2012, the service has been...

Apr 10, 2023 1 Min Read

Apps

[U: Bitcoin scam] Google Drive Russian spam notifications (mentions) issue troubles users

New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. Original story (published on October 19, 2020) follows: Google Drive has a pretty bad spam problem, and although it...

Mar 01, 2023 4 Min Read

Apps

Some Google Drive users unable to download large files or get 'Failed - network error' message (workarounds inside)

Some Google Drive users are facing issues when downloading files from the service for the past few days. According to reports (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9...

Feb 24, 2023 2 Min Read

Apps

Google Drive folders not sorting properly for some, issue acknowledged

‘Drive’ is the cloud storage service part of the Google Workspace suite. Its competitive fees and ease of use have made it a favorite alternative for many. The...

Feb 17, 2023 2 Min Read