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Is Your Gmail Account At Risk Of Being Deleted? Google’s Plan Explained

You may have heard that Google is planning to delete old accounts, which might make you worried about losing your old college or work email as soon as December 1 arrives. However, it seems that this process will not happen all at once. Google’s announcement stated that the accounts will be deleted in phases. The process will begin with accounts that were created but never used, and then move on to those that were more actively used before becoming inactive.

Google has also stated that it will send multiple email notifications to users with inactive accounts in the months leading up to their deletion. These notifications will be sent to the associated account email and the recovery email. This will give you plenty of time to log back into your account if you want to prevent it from being deleted. You might not even need to reset the old, forgotten password because Google is now defaulting to using passkeys. Once you’re logged in, simply reading or sending an email will be enough to reactivate the account. Even basic activities like watching a YouTube video or performing a Google search while logged into your account will remove it from the deletion list.

Of course, if you no longer need a two-year-old Gmail account, you can delete it yourself or wait for Google to do so.