It’s time to refresh your forgotten Google Accounts — or risk losing them. The company said in a blog post On Tuesday, it may delete Google accounts that you haven’t used or even signed in to in the past two years. This policy will begin later in 2023, and will include Google accounts such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar, YouTube, and Google Photos.
According to Google, these inactive accounts are more likely to be hacked. They may use old and outdated passwords which has since been hacked. And you are 10 times less likely to own these old accounts Two-factor authentication Preparing, publishing reports, making data less secure.
“These accounts are often vulnerable, and once the account is hacked, it can be used for anything from identity theft to a vector of unwanted or even malicious content, such as spam,” according to the post’s report.
How to maintain your google accounts
It is not difficult to maintain your Google accounts. You need to log in at least once every two years, so if you don’t remember if you did, now is the time.
Reading or sending email, using Google Drive, watching a YouTube video, downloading an app on the Google Play Store, using Google Search, or using Google to sign into a third-party app or service all register as some type of activity that This will keep your account active. And if you have a file Subscription With your Google account, Google One, news post or app, that’s also an activity.
When will Google accounts be deleted?
Technically, you have plenty of time to get around this, since Google will start deleting accounts in December 2023. The first accounts to be deleted will be accounts that were created and never used again.
Also, Google says it will send multiple notifications before deleting the account. Such notices will go to the primary account email address as well as any backup email address that has been provided.
But don’t wait, it’s very easy to forget. Better to do it now than risk losing anything you wish to keep.
What Google Accounts Should You Worry About?
Google Workspace includes popular programs like Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, and Calendar, so you may have more than one of these accounts. YouTube and Google Photos are also affected.
The policy change only affects personal Google accounts, not those of organizations, such as schools or businesses.
Google’s announcement comes on the heels of Twitter CEO Elon Musk saying similarly last week Twitter will soon delete inactive accountswhich can open more than 1.5 billion accounts.
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