Questions tagged [google-account]
Google common user account needed to access services provided by Google.
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Turn Off All Google (Gmail) Security
I want to turn off all gmail security and nonsense. Like back to the days when a SECURE PASSWORD was good enough.
I travel a lot and have different cell phone plans for different countries I'm in. ...
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Youtube get wide view
How do I get the wider view in Youtube?
Me and my friend have the same display with the same resolution. However, youtube has a wider view on my friends display while my view is narrow.
I think I ...
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Can't access Google Docs with different email?
I have a google account. Someone sent a link to access a google doc to my email me@somedomain.com. I added me@somedomain.com as an alternate in my google account. It still does not allow me to access ...
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How to bypass Google login verification screen?
I can't use my phone, and I'd much rather "let it be a hacker". What do I do?
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Google Settings: Visible on your content & to people who interact with you
Google Account ≪Gender, birthday, and more≫ settings says:
Visible on your content & to people who interact with you
(Cf 1; Cf 2.)
What does it refer to for accounts without Google Plus?...
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Secondary email on Google account showing different name
I have an email that I'm using from within my gmail account and it is also my secondary email address for the same gmail account.
At some point in history, while I was setting up this email address ...
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Does Google send text messages about deleting your email?
I received a text saying, “Wait is over and security for obry****@gmail.com was replaced.”
The email address is my email.
Is this a scam?
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Unknown email adress logged into my Gmail.
An unknow account has logged in to my gmail or in my google apps. All his mails are coming to my gmail.How can i delete that account from my device as i dont know the password as it is an unknown ...
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Is Google Account birth year shown?
The page ≪https://aboutme.google.com/ ≫:
(an example)
When I click on the lock icon beside "Birthday", it's this:
Yet when I click on the edit button, it shows:
So is the account's birth ...
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How to access photos previously in Google Panoramio?
I had a lot of photos uploaded to Panoramio. Some time back Google said I needed to "convert" my Panoramio account to a Google account to preserve them when they retire Panoramio. I thought I did ...
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Confusing Google icons
This is what I see when an app/script asks to access my Google account:
There's a circle icon by the sentence "View and.."; and a white arrow icon by the sentence "Display and.."; What do the icons ...
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Is there a way of preventing Google account password reset by a former team member who keeps changing it?
A former member of our team who originally had our Google account password keeps trying to modify the password and it succeeds! I think he uses the password recovery feature and succeeds in his intent ...
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Find the sites that have been granted access to the Gmail account [duplicate]
So I've been trying to find out how you can see what apps and sites I have used my gmail for. I feel like this used to be possible, but all the answers I've gotten always lead me to a dead end where I ...
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How do I make a Google account my default when I can't sign out of other accounts?
My school blocked the thing where we can switch our accounts (although I found a way to sign in to my other accounts) and I hate having to change my account every time I want to do something. How do I ...
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If I change my name, do my contacts see?
I would like to change the name associated with my Google account, and for various reasons I'd rather a few contacts didn't know about it. What I wonder is when I change my name in Gmail, does it ...
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Log in using Google without logging into Google
I log into Stack Overflow (and others) using Google. I don't have any alternative means of login in many cases, like an email/password combination - Google is the only way of accessing those accounts.
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Locked out of Gmail account/I have tried too many times [duplicate]
I have been locked out my Gmail account for the last 36 hours because Google complains that I have tried to log in too many ways. I have three different devices home so that would stand a recently yes....
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How to delete user accounts from Google
I have four Google accounts but I only use two of them. I'd like to delete the other two but all four show when I click the blue sign in from google.com.
How can I delete the two I don't use and make ...
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"Add Account" is not letting me create a new Gmail account
I am trying to add a third email account to my google ID. It won't let me. It just takes me in circles.
From the dropdown menu under my name icon, I select: Add Account
That takes me to a new tab or ...
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How to get Google Account last activity info with more precision than a simple date?
Under Gmail page > Activity Information (low right hand corner) page, I can see:
As per the last few rows, the information is certainly not helpful as they are accurate only to the day instead of ...
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How to remove profile picture in Google account? [duplicate]
I am looking for remove my profile picture and keep default Google account profile picture.
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Have lost all Google information to allow me to sign into my Google accounts [duplicate]
Have been trying to login to my accounts and not able to as I have forgotten all emails, passwords, username and how I sign up as per name. Have no idea estimated (date) when I signed up but has been ...
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How do I recover my Gmail account without using two-step verification? [duplicate]
Two-step verification is turned on and I can't get in to my Google account.
How can I recover my account?
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Change display name on YouTube
I use the same Google account for all Google products (YouTube, Drive, Analytics etc). For YouTube, I'd like to use a different profile name (eg my display name) but still have it linked to the same ...
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Will deleting your Google account delete all the YouTube comments you made with it?
I just deleted an alt Google account thinking it would delete all the YouTube comments I made with it. Is this true?
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Is there an URL that will let me create a Google Doc for a specific Google account I'm signed into?
I have a Personal and Work account with Google. I use Google Docs to take notes, but every time I want to create a new document for work, it requires me to switch accounts. Gmail lets you access ...
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I have two Google accounts, how to verify they are NOT LINKED
I opened a second Google account so I could make a business page years ago. The owner did not believe in social media. But I had a vision and did it. I no longer work there. They want the ...
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How to be sure for deleting Google account instead of Gmail product
A while ago I wanted to delete whole Google account(because it's recovery mail was a custom domain, and this domain is not used anymore so I don't want new owner of domain to recover this Google ...
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How can I tell which Google account generated a 2 factor auto text triggered by a 3rd party hacker?
I just got a 2 factor auto code sent to my phone, which means someone is trying to login to one my Google accounts, but I don't know which one as I have my phone setup as the 2 factor auto number for ...
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Has clicking on the wrong link in a "Verify your Google Account contact email address" email changed my account?
I received the following email to my Gmail account.
(all the pixellated sections represent the same string)
I checked the email was legitimate (SPF, DKIM and DMARC all pass), and then I stupidly ...
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Accessing my Gmail account without going through Google sign in and not remember password [duplicate]
I cannot access my Gmail account inbox Access please help me
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Transfer all data from a Google Account to another
I have a managed Google Account and I'd like to transfer all my data, sync files, Drive, absolutely everything possible that is Google related with that account to a new Google account. Is it possible?...
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Google's organization G suite and user history
Does the admin of an organization's G suite have access to the browsing history of users that logged in to chrome with the organization account?
For example, I have a myname@company.com account that'...
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Reopening a deleted Gmail account
How can I retrieve a deleted account? I used it a few years ago. I can remember the e-mail but not the password. When I tried to enter a certain password which I used (as far as I remember) it says:
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What to do if my Google account has been compromised?
I have been getting alerts on emails that I have never sent. And when I look in to it further it shows a Facebook or Google+ group.
Are there steps that can be taken to recover my account?
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How can I restore my deleted Google Account and how long before it is gone forever?
My account was hacked into and deleted just today (I know who did it because this person forced me to give them the password) because this person believes it is not safe for me to have this account, ...
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I deleted my Google security question by mistake and there is now no way to get another one
I agree that a two-step sign in procedure is better than the old security question method. However, we live off-grid where there is no cellular phone signal. So the two-step logon process will not ...
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How to dissociate a Google account from another organisation?
Google allows one to sign in with more than one account at the same time. For example, from the Gmail web interface, clicking on your own avatar in the top right corner shows your current account and ...
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How do I automatically sign out of Gmail but keep my two-factor authentication remembering my computer between browser sessions?
I use Gmail's two-factor authentication (with Firefox). I would like it to remember certain trusted computers (across browser sessions) so that I don't have to use it every time I log into Gmail on ...
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How can I gain access to my Gmail account with my password but without a recovery phone number or email?
I know my Gmail username and password. I don't have any recovery phone number or email. I recently moved to another location within the United States and Gmail won't let me access my account:
I tried:...
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Two Gmail accounts exist with same email id
Two weeks ago I created a Gmail account with id example@gmail.com in my Chrome browser. I was able to login to the account from the same browser but when I tried to login using a different browser or ...
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Why are my edits and presence anonymous in Google document when I'm signed in?
I edited a Google spreadsheet document, while logged with my Google account. After looking into revision history, I could see that the revision is not under my name but under "All anonymous users".
I ...
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How to set up a Google/GMail/GoogleDocs account without a phone number?
How do I set up a Google account without a phone number?
I do not have nefarious reasons for doing so, I simply want to keep my phone number private. I have no reason to think any SaaS or Web 2.0 ...
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How to get my Gmail "User ID"? (a number like 1242343543557656)
My company uses a Gmail-based email server. For integration with a partner's system I have been asked for my Gmail "user ID", here is what they wrote:
there are usually two emails associated, one ...
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Google Search History - linking across multiple accounts?
Does Google link searches across multiple accounts? For example, if I signed out of my account, then searched Google, would Google log the fact it was likely the accountholder of the account just ...
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Google account permissions legitimacy
I was reviewing my Google account permissions and noticed some items that I am having some concern in regard to their legitimacy. I'd like to know if there is a good way to determine the legitimacy of ...
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How to disable "Verify it's you" on Gmail, without phone? [duplicate]
Sometimes, when I try to access my Gmail account from some other computer or country, an annoying security feature prevents me from doing so. I get the following message:
Verify it's you
There's ...
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Remove access for unknown devices in account activity
Why can't I remove a device off my Google account activity that is not one of my devices?
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YouTube Kids Block List Desktop
The YouTube Kids app currently has a feature that allows blocking of specific videos and channels.
I find this feature very useful, however from what I can tell the list can only be managed within ...
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Logged into multiple Gmail accounts; first is automatically chosen for oAuth
I am logged into multiple accounts on Gmail. I had a bad habit for a number of years where I'd switch email addresses and forward all my mail from the previous one.
The problem is, when I try and ...
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