Google is in the process of deleting a large number of Gmail accounts. Here’s how to avoid losing yours. The internet giant began deleting accounts last December if they had not been used for two ...

Update, August 5, 2025: This story, originally published on August 3, has been updated with further mitigation advice as well as a new report regarding phishing and credential theft trends as Google ...

To set up your recovery contacts, head to your Google account on the web, then click Security. This is the page where you can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Now Google has issued a new warning for users who lose their phone ...

Google is making good on a promise it made last year to delete inactive Gmail accounts, according to Forbes. The push to eliminate inactive accounts came as an effort ...

If you have ever lost access to your Gmail account – which essentially means you can't log in to your Google Account for other services you might use — you know how distressing the situation is.

What’s happened? Google is introducing two new ways to help users regain access to locked accounts. Why is this important? Getting locked out of your Google account can throw your digital life into ...

Google is announcing new privacy and recovery tools to combat spam across multiple products related to Android, including suspicious link detection in messages, sign-in with phone number, and recovery ...

Signing in with your Google account across different services means that many sites and apps will have access to your account information. Since this is inherently risky, take these precautions to ...