Urgent rescue action! If you have a Gmail account that you haven’t used in the last two years, you only have a few hours if you don’t want to lose it and its related content forever. Preservation is a simple task: simply activate it. Logging in with it and sending a simple email should be enough.

At the beginning of the year, Google announced new policies regarding the maintenance of accounts and the deletion of inactive ones. According to the new company policy “Google services reserve the right to delete your data if your account has not been used in that service for 2 years”.

Unlike the previous policy, which only deleted saved content, this update focuses on the accounts themselves. The reason for the change is to strengthen security measures, as unused accounts are more vulnerable to hacking. Deadlines were met and the removal process will begin tomorrow, December 1, 2023.

If you haven’t signed in or done anything with your Google Account for two years, it’s considered inactive. Google may delete all content and data from your account. This includes a large amount of stored information, including Google Photos, Google Calendar events, Google Docs and emails. Google will send notifications and secondary email, if any, to this account. And it was over from there.

Say that this policy applies to personal accounts only, not those connected to companies, schools or other organizations. And there are some exceptions, such as if the account was used to purchase something from the Google Store, if the account has a gift card with an active balance, or if you have a published app or game with active, ongoing subscriptions, or active financial transactions. . associated with them, such as the Google Account that owns the app in the Play Store.

Considering that a Gmail account is not limited to an email client, but is used to authenticate with multiple Google services and third-party companies, if you don’t want to lose it, you know. Any action that activates it will serve to keep it and won’t lose it forever: Log in; read or send email; use Google Drive; watch a video on YouTube; share photos; download the app or search for activities while logged in.