A few days ago, Google announced the mass deletion of accounts. It’s messed up as usual and it’s been rumored that Google will start erasing our digital lives but the truth is conditions are loose enough for you not to delete that account that you have not used it for years and that it exists, but you remember thanks to this announcement.

Next, We will tell you what to do if you want to keep this account active.however, we already anticipate that Google offers many opportunities and that it will be difficult for your account to disappear… unless you totally care.

How can you keep your Google account active?

First of all: Google announced this measure on May 16, but with the following caveat: they will start deleting accounts in December 2023 at the earliest. So, it’s not something that happens right away, and it actually shows that they’re not in too much of a hurry “as soon as possible”.

Moreover, They will try every way for you to learn the deletion process. Also, they will not only start by deleting accounts that have been created and never used, but will also send multiple notifications to both potentially deleted accounts and to the recovery emails for those accounts. Come on, if you haven’t learned, it’s because you don’t want to.

Now let’s take the case of someone who has a Google account and doesn’t use it because it’s their primary account, but If for any reason you don’t want to lose the data of that old or forgotten account. It could be something in Drive, emails you want to keep, or something else.

The first thing is Your account will be deleted if it has not been used in the last two years.. In other words, if you haven’t been in this business for six months, you’re out of danger. The reason why Google claims is that abandoned accounts can be used maliciously by hackers and therefore deleted.

But, If you meet one of these conditions, your account will be considered active in the eyes of Google.:

• You read or send an email.
• You’re using Google Drive (it doesn’t matter if it’s uploading or downloading a file).
• You are watching a YouTube video.
• You are downloading something from the Play Store.
• You search for anything on Google.
• You log into an app using this Google account.

Also, if you have any subscription to that Google account, even if you have not done any of the above, the company will consider it an active account and hence will not delete it either. And if you have even one YouTube video in your Google account, you are free for now.

So, It’s very, very easy for Google to not delete your accountso don’t panic, even look up a pizza recipe using that forgotten Google account… and you’ll have it.

More info | Google

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