It might not be a problem that affects us all that often, but we’ve all experienced it. Someone emails you a message asking if you got that F or picture they sent over. You search through your inbox, trash, spam folders only to discover it’s not there. The reason? It never went through because the attachment was too big.

Starting now, those situations will happen a lot less frequently. has announced it is doubling the size of attachments Gmail users can receive from 25MB to 50MB, which should be more than enough for giant pictures Fs. ed, there are plenty of better ways to send huge attachments than just dropping them into the body of an email, but if someone you know insists on doing it, at least you’ll receive them now.

As notes, however, you still can’t send files larger than 25MB. For that, you can use the usual Drive method, which is far more reliable secure anyway. And it’s pretty easy to do. en in the compose window, tap the paper clip icon at the top, then Insert from Drive, find the files you want, choose the way you want to send them (if they’re bigger than 25MB).

Bigger isn’t always better: There’s a reason why won’t let you send attachments larger than 25MB—you shouldn’t be doing it. Not only is email insecure, files that large can choke servers cause delivery backups, so it’s best to use Drive or some other cloud service to do your sending. But if someone in your life insists on sending you gigantic pictures embedded in the body of email messages, you can now rest easy knowing you’ll most likely receive them now.