

I write this article for selfish reasons. I write to help resonate with this concept. Is this small change subtle or what? Yet it carries more significance than it might appear. We'll add a footer to that email, explaining that you've instructed Google to send an email on your behalf after you've stopped using your account.Life happens for you and not to you.

If you chose to only notify your contacts of your inactive account, they'll receive an email with a subject line and content that you wrote during setup. What will trusted contacts receive?Ĭontacts will only receive notification once your account has been inactive for the specified amount of time - they will not receive any notification during setup. Verifying the identity using a mobile phone number prevents data access from unauthorized people who might get hold of the email we send to your trusted contact. We'll use the phone number for the sole purpose of ensuring that only the trusted contact can actually download your data. Why do I need to provide a phone number for a trusted contact? You'll also be unable to reuse your Gmail username. If you use Gmail with your account, you'll no longer be able to access that email. You can review the data associated with your account on the Google Dashboard. What happens when your account gets deleted?ĭeleting your Google Account will affect all products associated with that account (e.g., Blogger, AdSense, Gmail), and affect each product differently. These include your last sign-ins, your recent activity in My Activity, usage of Gmail (e.g., the Gmail app on your phone), and Android check-ins. We look at several signals to understand whether you are still using your Google Account.

To set it up, go to your Inactive Account Manager page and click Start. Inactive Account Manager is a way for users to share parts of their account data or notify someone if they’ve been inactive for a certain period of time.
