How to Delete Files from Google Drive on iPhone or iPad

If you’re using all the free space on Google Drive that you got when you made your Google account, then you’d need to manage it properly. You receive 15GB of storage for free, after which you must pay. As a consequence, if you wish to keep the free space, you’ll need to delete unimportant files from your Drive. So, in this in-depth guide of ours, we’ll show you how to delete files from Google Drive on iPhone or iPad.

How to delete files in Google Drive on iPhone or iPad

So, when you try to remove files from Google Drive, you’re actually moving them to the Trash, where they’ll be kept for 30 days before being automatically removed. You can, however, delete those files permanently from the Trash before the 30 days are up. In addition, you can even recover those files from the Trash before the 30 days are up.

In this part of the article, we’re going to share with you step-by-step instructions on how to delete, restore, or permanently delete files and folders on Google Drive from your iPhone. However, the first thing you’d need to do is download the Google Drive app on your iPhone from the App Store.

Learn how to delete files from Google Drive on iPhone:

So, when you delete your files or folders, they get stored in your Trash for 30 days. If you’re the file’s owner and you’ve shared it with others, moving it to the Trash won’t prevent others from accessing it until you permanently delete it. Alternatively, if you’re not the owner and you’ve removed the files from your Trash, the other people can still view the files. So, here’s how:

1. On your iPhone or iPad, start the Google Drive app
2. Next, tap on the More (three dots) icon located beside the file that you want to delete
3. After that, tap Remove from the bottom and then Move to trash

Learn how to delete multiple files from Google Drive on iPhone:

You can also remove more than one file at a time from Google Drive on your iPhone. It is very simple and useful when you’re dealing with a lot of unwanted files. So, here’s how to remove multiple files from Google Drive on iPhone.

1. On your Google Drive app, touch and hold on to the file that you’d want to delete to select it.
2. Next, choose all the other files that you’d want to remove.
3. After that, tap on Remove on the bottom and then Move to trash

Here’s how to empty your trash on Google Drive from your iPhone:

You can either permanently delete a single file or all the files from the trash on your Google Drive app. It is straightforward, and here’s how:

1. On the Google Drive app, tap on the Hamburger (three horizontal lines) icon and tap on Trash
2. Next, if you want to permanently remove a single file from the trash, then tap on the More icon and select Delete forever
3. Or, if you want to empty your trash of all files, then tap on the More icon located in the upper-right, and then select Empty Trash

Here’s how to recover files from Google Drive on iPhone:

Once you’ve deleted a file on Google Drive, it gets moved to the Trash, where it remains for a period of 30 days before being permanently deleted. However, you can restore that file from the Trash before the 30-day period is up. Here’s how:

1. Tap on the Hamburger icon in the upper-left
2. Then tap on Trash
3. Next, tap on the More (three dots) icon beside the file that you’d want to restore
4. After that, tap Restore

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