It was easier to cut my ties with them and just keep the services I truly needed. This was an awful experience and even though I could have gotten my free account back, I don't trust Google to have it done before July 1st when charges would have started. So this is perfect at the end of the day for anyone who doesn't feel like waiting for Google to figure out the whole no-cost situation, afraid of being charged, or those who have email & Calendar options elsewhere.Īnd I know Google doesn't care if they lose customers, but I won't recommend their Workspace to anyone, I will tell people always to go with ICloud + or Microsoft 365 before Google. It cancelled right away and I still have my Google Admin & it says I can add 50 users under Cloud Identity Free. Once I was done testing everything, I then went into my billing and went to Google Workspace Starter, then went to the more dropdown on the left menu and went to Cancel Subscription. Basically everything you get on personal Gmail except Email & Calendar. You get 4 Workspace services & 57 Additional Google Services. You also get 15GB Drive space, however Drive & Docs & Sites are turned off by default and need to be turned back on. I can confirm that YouTube, Adsense, Google Play, Google Play Console & most Google services still do work. This allowed me to make sure the services I needed worked still. Then I turned OFF the Workspace Starter license but didn't cancel it yet. I added CI Free license to my admin account.

So I took some precautionary steps first. It was more me crossing my fingers because there is not enough info online about what CI Free includes. Now this was scary because of 3 services I require of Google which are Adsense, YouTube & Play Console. I had other options for my email & Calendar so I decided to downgrade to just Cloud Identity Free which is all I need. So I today have gotten tired of waiting and hoping not to get charged and getting the whole free version back.

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