Google Boosts Gmail Attachment Limit to 50 MB for Recipients

While Google offers users other ways of sharing very large files, the company knows that email is often the go-to solution for getting important Word documents, PDFs or Powerpoint presentations into colleagues' or customers' hands. That's why on Wednesday Google announced that Gmail will now support incoming attachments of up to 50 MB.

Sending attachments of that size via Gmail, however, remains a no-no as the application will still only allow users to send attachments of no more than 25 MB, Google said in a blog post.

If you want to share larger files, users will have to turn to other applications in the G Suite set of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools. "[J]ust as before, you can use Google Drive to send larger attachments," Google said.