From October 13, 2020, Google Drive is making a change so that its trash behaves more consistently with the rest of Google applications (such as Gmail) with regards to automatic deletion. This means that any file that is put into Google Drive’s ‘My Drive’ trash will begin to be automatically deleted after 30 consecutive days in the trash.
Items in trash will still continue to consume quota and your storage will still continue to be shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Any files already in a user’s trash, will remain there for 30 days. After the 30-day-period files that have been in the trash for longer than 30 days will begin to be automatically deleted.
Files in shared drives trash are already automatically deleted after 30 days. These changes affect items that are trashed from any device and any platform. There is no impact to Backup and Sync behavior. You can always restore files from trash before the 30 day time window.
If you are using Google Drive on Android or iOS, please update to the latest versions so you can be updated on the most recent in-app notifications.
