It simply is likely to be time to lastly make that improve from Home windows Eight and eight.1, because the Google Drive app will now not help them as of August 2023. 

The information comes from a Google help web page, reported by Android Police. The tech large shall be ending help for each the Eight and eight.1 OS, in addition to Home windows 10 32-bit model. After August, customers will be unable to make use of the cloud storage app to sync or add information by the app and might want to improve to a more recent OS to proceed to make use of these options.

The excellent news is which you could nonetheless use Google Drive by your browser for those who’re utilizing an older OS. However the dangerous information, in accordance with The Verge, is that browser help is ending for Home windows Eight and eight.1 with Microsoft Edge ending help in January 2023, Google Chrome releasing the primary model that doesn’t help them in February 2023, and Mozilla Firefox planning to finish safety help for Home windows 7, Home windows 8, and Home windows 8.1 subsequent 12 months.

To not point out the problem of auto-syncing information, which is a function solely accessible by the Drive app. For that solely you’ll must make the soar to both Home windows 10 64-bit model or Home windows 11.

Google Drive has been pushing out strong updates

Google Drive has been bettering its providers in 2023, making the applying a lot simpler to make use of and navigate. That is on high of its new Materials You redesign, which cleaned up its UI and utterly modified the aesthetics.

In Might 2023, Google redesigned the Drive homepage, making it simpler to seek out information. Within the ‘Dwelling’ view, two view buttons on the high of the web page enable customers to alternate between a ‘Steered’ and ‘Exercise’ view. Earlier that very same month, Google added a brand new Spam folder. Shifting a file there unsubscribes you from exercise notifications and removes the file from all different Drive areas.

February 2023 introduced alongside two updates. The primary one launched a brand new toolbar for multi-selecting information that made it clearer and simpler to make bulk modifications, whereas the second added new search parameters to assist customers slender down their outcomes.

There was the temporary file restrict replace that Google rolled out to a small variety of Drive customers, earlier than eradicating it in response to unfavorable publicity. The restrict of 5 million gadgets is a big one which most individuals received’t hit, however the sudden error message with no superior warning of the rollout was most likely fairly alarming to see anyway.