NEW YORK (AP) – Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while? If you want to keep it from disappearing, you should sign in before the end of the week. Under Google’s updated inactive-account ...

Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while? If you want to keep it from disappearing, you should sign in before the end of the week. Under Google’s updated inactive-account policy, which the ...

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If you haven’t used your Gmail account in more than two years, then odds are it doesn’t exist anymore. Google started deleting millions of accounts because of inactivity on Dec. 1. This applies to ...

Google announced in May that it would begin deleting accounts that hadn’t been used or signed into for at least two years in December 2023 to help protect its users from security threats. In its ...

If you haven't hopped into your Gmail, YouTube or Google Photos account in a long time, now may be the time to do so if you want to keep it. Google will soon start deleting certain accounts that have ...

Google accounts that haven’t been used for a long time are more likely to be compromised, the company said — noting that “forgotten or unattended accounts” typically have old passwords, often lack two ...