How to delete Gmail account

Have you moved your online correspondence from Gmail to another email service and now would like to close your email account with Google? This is not a difficult operation, I can assure you. To be able to delete your Gmail account you just need a few minutes of free time, a minimum of patience and attention and that’s it. If you want, I can explain step by step how to proceed. But please, think carefully.

In fact, by deleting Gmail accounts, you will lose the ability to access all the big G online services, such as YouTube and Google Drive. Also, if you have an Android smartphone you will lose the ability to save your address book and other online data and sync them with other devices. There is also a way to remove Gmail from active services on your Google account without closing it completely. If you don’t want to completely lose your ability to log into your Google account, or if you’re not very sure what to do, I suggest you consider this option. How do you say? You are not interested in deleting Gmail accounts in the true sense of the term but you simply want to remove it from the client in use on your computer, smartphone and/or tablet? No problem, I can explain how to do it in this case too.

So if you are really interested in learning more, read this guide of mine on how to delete Gmail account and follow the procedure that seems most appropriate to your needs. You will see that in no time at all you will be able to dispel all your doubts about it. So, let’s get started?

Preliminary operations: backup

Before deleting your Gmail account or before removing the big G email service from the list of active tools on your Google account, I highly recommend that you download a copy of your data from all the Mountain View company services you have. used until today. How you do it? I’ll explain it to you right away.

To begin with, connected to the main Google page, click on your photo at the top right and select the item Personal account from the menu that appears. If you see the Login button instead of your photo, it is because you must first log in to your account. To do this, click on the button in question, type in your Gmail e-mail address and click on  Next,  then type in the password for your account and then click on  Log in.

On the page that opens, locate the Account Preferences item and then click on the Delete your account or your services link that is attached below. Then click on the  Delete Google account and data item and if requested, type the password for your Gmail account again and then click on the download your data link at the top of the web page.

Scroll the page that is shown to you, locate the Gmail entry and make sure that the checkmark is present next to it. Then presses the down arrow next to it to choose which Gmail messages to include in the backup. By default, the All messages item is selected but if you prefer you can check the Select labels option and then choose which emails to deceive in the backup indicated the labels of your interest. Obviously, if you deem it appropriate, you can also include other Google services in the backup and/or remove the checkmark next to those you intend to exclude.

To finish, click on the Next button first and then on  Create archive. Once this is done, you will receive the link to download your data by email. Please note that depending on the amount of data to be processed, it may take hours or several days before the backup is completed, generated and made available for download.

Delete Google Account

After having “saved” your data by following the instructions above you can finally take real action. If you have decided to take the more drastic route, that is, if you want to delete your Gmail account by permanently closing your Google account, you have to connect again to the main page of big G, click on your photo at the top right and select the item Personal account from the menu that appears.

On the page that opens, click on the item  Delete your account or your services on the right, press the  Delete Google account and data button and log in to your Google account again. Now, put the checkmark next to the items  Yes, I acknowledge that I am still responsible for all charges arising from any pending financial transactions and I understand that under certain circumstances my earnings will not be paid and  Yes, I want to permanently delete this Google account and all related data and click on the Delete account button to confirm the closure of your Google account.

Disable Gmail

If, on the other hand, you still do not have very clear ideas on what to do and instead of deleting the Google account “in the trunk” to delete the Gmail account, you would prefer to deactivate the latter, the steps you need to perform are slightly different from those seen above. . To deactivate your Gmail account you must in fact connect again to the main Google page, click on your photo at the top right and select the item  Personal account from the menu that appears.

On the page that opens, locate the Account preferences box and click on the item  Delete your account or your services on the right. Then click on the Delete products option, log back into your Google account and click on the trash can icon located next to the Gmail item.

Once this is done, put the checkmark next to  Yes, I want to permanently delete [address @ gmail.com ] and remove it from my Google account (instead of  @ gmail.com you will find your Gmail address), specify in the New primary email address field the email address you want to use to log into your Google account (instead of the Gmail you are about to delete) and type your Google account password in the Current Password field.

Finally, click the Remove Gmail button. Once this is done, all the data in your mailbox will be permanently deleted within a couple of working days.

Delete Gmail account from the computer

Would you like to understand how to delete Gmail accounts from a traditional email client, such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail or Thunderbird, in use on your computer? Then read the instructions below to find out how to do it right away.

• Microsoft Outlook– To delete Gmail accounts go to the File menu at the top left, click on the Account Settings button and select the Account Settings item from the menu that appears. In the window that opens, select the E-mail tab, select the Gmail account to delete and click on the Remove button at the top.
• Apple Mail– To delete the Gmail account, go to the Mail menu, click on the Account item …  at the top left, select the Google account to be deleted and press the button  –  located at the bottom left.
• Thunderbird– To delete Gmail account press the alt key on the computer keyboard in order to display the Thunderbird menus, go to the Tools menu, click on the program’s Account Settings and select the Gmail account to remove. Then select the item  Delete app.

Delete Gmail accounts from smartphones and tablets

Do you want to unlink the Gmail account from your Android device? Do you want to delete Gmail accounts from the Mail application on iOS? No problem, these are two very simple operations. Find out now how to put them into practice by reading the following lines.

• Android– To delete the Gmail account, go to the  Android Settings menu and select the Account item from the latter. Then presses the Google logo, select your  Gmail address from the menu that opens and first presses the button  (…)  located at the top right and then on the item  Remove account.
• iOS– To delete the Gmail account in the iOS Settings menu and select the Mail item from the latter. Then presses on Account, select the item related to your Gmail account, and presses the Delete account button twice in a row.

For more information on the procedure required to delete the Google account from Android and replace it with another address, I invite you to consult my guide on the subject. The same goes for the procedure for configuring Gmail on iPhone, to which I have dedicated a special guide that I think could be useful for you.