You can delete your Gmail account in the "Data & Personalization" tab of your Google settings. Deleting your Gmail account won't delete your Google account entirely, but will delete all the email you ...

“If a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least two years, we may delete the account and its contents,” Google announced in a blog post, and that time is coming soon. In December, ...

Google is preparing to delete inactive Gmail accounts starting from December 1, 2023. This decision targets accounts that have not been used in the past two years, encompassing all associated data, ...

In 2020, Google said it would remove content stored in an inactive account (but not the account itself) to preserve storage space. Google is now updating its inactivity policy so that old, unused ...

Most people these days have at least one email address. And most of them operate at least one Gmail account for work or personal communication. Many also have separate Gmail accounts for distinct ...

Update, Dec. 16, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 14 now includes additional advice on how to securely recover a forgotten username and password to an inactive Gmail account to prevent ...