GOOGLE WILL DELETE ACCOUNTS THAT REMAIN INACTIVE FOR TWO YEARS

Sun 20 August 2023:

Google informed its billions of users on Saturday that the inactivity period for a Google Account has been extended to two years across all of its products and services.

This change is now being implemented and will apply to any Google Account that has been inactive, “meaning it has not been signed into or used within a two-year period”.

According to the internet giant, inactive accounts and any material within them will be eligible for deletion beginning December 1, 2023.

These changes have no bearing on you unless you have been inactive in your Google Account for two years or have not used your account to login in to any Google service in that time.

“While the changes go into effect today, the earliest we would enforce any account deletion would be December 2023,” said Google.

If the account is considered inactive, Google will send several reminder emails to both users and their recovery emails (if any have been provided) before the company takes any action or delete any account content.

“These reminder emails will go out at least 8 months before any action is taken on your account. After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account,” said the company.

The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign in to the account at least once every two years.

If you have signed in to your Google Account recently in the past two years, your account is considered active and will not be deleted, said the company.

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