Google May Delete Your Gmail Account and Photos Friday: Here’s Who Is at Risk

Published on November 30, 2023

Starting this week, Google will start deleting inactive Gmail, Google Photos, and other Google accounts that have remained inactive for at least two years. To prevent it from being deleted, sign into your Google or Gmail account before Friday, Dec. 1. According to a company’s post, if the account has been inactive for two years, Google advises a user to read or send an email, use Google Drive in some capacity, watch a YouTube video, download an app from the Google Play service, use Google Search, or sign in with Google to sign into a third-party app or service. “If you have signed into your Google Account or any of our services recently, your account is considered active and will not be deleted,” the company said in a post outlining the policy earlier this year, warning that accounts will be deleted starting in “December 2023.”...

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