If you don’t want to lose your Google account and all the content saved on its services, this is what you can do to keep it.
Last May, Google announced that it was going to start deleting inactive accounts from all its services. Far from being a simple threat from the technology giant, the fateful day has arrived to set a deadline. If you are one of the millions of Gmail users who don’t want to lose their account, you can still follow these simple steps to avoid it.
First of all, Accounts will be deleted starting December 1, so you can stay calm because you still have enough time to prevent it. Furthermore, they will not all be destroyed at once next week, since Google has said that they will gradually disappear, starting with those that were never used.
On the other hand, you have nothing to fear if you use your Google email account with some frequency, since this measure will only affect those accounts that have not been used for two years or more. In fact, the big “G” has sent several notifications to affected users during the previous months, so if you have not received any in your Google email or recovery email, your account is not in danger.
Steps to keep your Google account active
As we said at the beginning, this new policy affects all Google products: Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar and Photos. Therefore, if you have signed in to any of these applications in the last two years, Google will not consider your account to be inactive.
And the same thing happens in reverse: if you are one of those affected, if you have not used any of these services for two years or more, you should know that deleting your email account will also It will take away all the content saved in these apps.
If so, this is what you can do to avoid it:
- Read or send an email from Gmail.
- Share files with Google Drive.
- Download an app in the Google Play store.
- Perform a Google search.
- Watch a YouTube video.
- Use your Google account to access a third-party service.
As you see, Google has not been very demanding so that its users can save their respective accounts.. In any case, we recommend that you always make a Google backup so that you do not have to regret the loss of photos, videos, documents or files in a hypothetical case.