From December 2023, Google accounts that have been inactive for 2 years will be deleted from the system
According to Google's latest announcement on August 21, Google accounts that have been inactive for 2 years will be deleted from Google's system.
Every day, Google strives to keep you and your private information safe and secure by using built-in security measures to prevent unauthorized access to your Google Account.
Therefore, we update inactivity time for a Google Account for 2 years across all of our products and services.
How these changes will affect you:
- These changes do not affect you unless you haven't used your Google Account in two years or haven't used your account to sign in to any Google service in more than 2 years.
- Although these changes take effect today, as of December 2023, we just deleted the account.
- If your account is deemed inactive, we will send several reminder emails to both you and your recovery email address (if you have provided one) before we take any action or remove any content in the account.
- Once you delete your Google Account, you can't reuse the deleted account's Gmail address to create a new Google Account.
How do you keep your account active?
The simplest way to keep your Google Account active is to sign in to it at least once every two years.
In addition, there are other ways to maintain your account's active status:
- Read or send emails
- Use Google Drive
- Watch videos on YouTube
- Share photos
- Download the app
- Use Google Search
- Use Sign in with Google to sign in to third-party apps or services
There are some exceptions to this policy. here.
Google also offers tools to help manage your Google Account and options to back up your data, including the ability to download data using Google Takeout, and allows you to plan for what happens to your data if you don't use your account for a specific period of time using Account Manager is not working.
Our priority is to make it easy for you to keep your account active if you want to. recovery email Your email is the newest and most accurate.
Learn more
- Inactive Google Accounts policy
- How Google stores the data it collects
- Updating our inactive account policies (English version only)
Source: Google Accounts team
