Finding someone who does not have a Gmail account today is almost an impossible mission, and it is the most used search engine on the planet (it is estimated that more than 100,000 million people around the world use it), it offers all types of services for free, and the only requirement is that you have a Gmail account.
From there you have access to all the services that Google offers, and in a more personalized way, such as Google Maps, YouTube, Drive or Google Photos among others. However, as we saidthere are billions of Google accountssince being free it is normal for users to have more than one and since all this information has to be stored by the company, from time to timeor they have to sort this data and eliminate those that no longer serve them.
And all this account data takes up space in the cloud, a space that Google has to pay for. And in these cleanup efforts, the company launched an inactive account policy, which comes into effect this coming December 1, 2024.
What is Google’s inactive account policy
This policy It only affects personal accounts, so the professional and educational ones are safe, and what it does is delete all the Gmail and Google Photos accounts that have been inactive for more than two years. The key is what Google considers inactive, and what you can do so they don’t delete yours.
Google considers that An account is active if the user performs activities such as reading or sending email, watching YouTube videos, sharing photos on Google Photos, using Google Search, or signing in to a third-party app or service. This means that if you do some of these actions, the company will detect activity and your account will be safe, but keep in mind that You must do it before next December 1st.
From Google they explain that this measure also It has to do with your cybersecurity, since inactive Google accounts are especially vulnerable to attacks by not receiving regular security reviews. Therefore, in order not to upset you Enter each and every one of the accounts you have if you don’t want to lose them.
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