Google account

You might want to get rid of your Gmail account sometimes, what you do then, just stopping logging into it will not be the solution. But many choose that option and will stop using it if they wish to delete it.

Here are some simple steps that you need to follow to delete your Google account.

As a first step just log on into your Gmail account that you wish to delete and then go to My account page of your account by clicking on the account icon and then clicking on the My Account option
Then click on delete your account or services under accounts and preferences
Click on delete products, then it will ask for your account password and enter the password
Then click on download data option to get all your Google account data downloaded
The data you can download from your account include map data, Google drive files, Google photo bookmarks, contacts, more
You have to make selection of products that you wish to download the data from
Choose the format of the file to be downloaded and you also choose to download all the files in one single large file or else split it into small files
Choose the delivery method of the archived files and then click on create archive
Then again click on the delete your accounts or services under accounts and preferences and then click on delete products
Then hit the trash icon beside the Gmail icon
And confirm your password and enter the verification code and hit on delete Gmail

If you wish to delete the Google account, then

Go to your accounts and preferences and then click on delete your accounts and services, then click on delete Google account and data and confirm your password, then check the checkboxes and hit on delete account

Get rid of unwanted and unused Gmail and Google accounts using these simple steps.

Have you ever wanted to know about the date of creation of your Google account? If so, have you ever thought of the procedure? If you ever want to restore your account in the future, then Google will ask some questions and one of them will be the date of creation of your Gmail.

So, it is very important to make a note of Google account creation.

The simple and easy way to know the account creation date is just checking out the date in your welcome message from Google. You can find the message in your inbox. But in case if you have deleted this mail, then don’t worry here are some steps you can follow in order to find your account creation date.

Open your Gmail account settings

Then go to the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab and there under the POP download option, you can see the date in the format of mm/dd/yy which your account creation date.

In the above screenshot, you can observe the highlighted area, where you can see the date is the creation date of my Gmail account. In the same way, you can also keep a note of the creation date of your account.

Google account

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Finding the date of creation of your Google account