A few days ago, Google announced the mass deletion of accounts. As usual, there was quite a stir and rumors that Google was going to start erasing our digital lives, but the truth is that the conditions are lax enough that you do not delete this account that you haven’t used it for years and only remembered it exists because of this announcement.
Afterwards, We’ll tell you what you need to do if you want to keep this account activebut we already predict that Google offers many opportunities and it will be difficult for your account to disappear…unless you care exactly.
How to keep your Google account active
First, Google announced the measure on May 16, but warned that they will start deleting accounts, at the earliest, in December 2023. That is to say, it is not something immediate and, in fact, that “as soon as” indicates that it is not that they are in too much of a hurry.
Besides, They will try every way to let you know about the removal And they won’t just start by deleting accounts that were created and never used, they’ll send multiple notifications to accounts that might be deleted and recovery emails for those accounts. Come on, if you don’t know, it’s because you don’t want to.
Now let’s take the case of a person who has a Google account and does not use it because he has a main one, but for whatever reason, you don’t want to lose data from that old or forgotten account. You may have something in Drive, emails you want to keep, etc.
The first thing is that Your account will be deleted if it has not been used for the past two years.. In other words, if you haven’t been involved at all for six months, you’re out of danger. The reason why Google argues that abandoned accounts can be used by hackers with bad intentions and hence deletion.
However, your account will be considered active in the eyes of Google if you meet any of these conditions:
- You read or send an e-mail.
- You’re using Google Drive (even if it uploads or downloads a file, it doesn’t matter).
- You are watching a YouTube video.
- You download something from the Play Store.
- You search for anything on Google.
- You enter an application using this Google account.
Also, if you have a subscription in that Google account, the company will consider it an active account even if you haven’t done any of the above things, so it won’t delete it either. And if your Google account has even one YouTube video, for now you are also free.
That’s to say, it’s very, very easy for Google not to delete your accountso don’t get carried away with alarmism, even look up the recipe for a pizza using that forgotten google account… and you’ll keep it yours.
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