Do archive emails helps you to re-claim inbox or drive space in Gmail?

Marking or Moving emails to 'Archive' on Gmail does not help in reclaiming the google drive space.

To reclaim google drive space, you should cleanup unwanted emails, attachments, files, and folders etc...

You may upvote this feature request, and based on the user's feedback google may come up with something to help users reclaiming the google drive space without the need of buying additional storage space.

Upvote this feature request!

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/1732555?hl=en

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