How to find your forgotten Gmail accounts

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge

Last May, Google announced it was planning to delete any accounts that hadn't been used in two years (with a few exceptions, such as accounts that have YouTube videos). And sure enough, about two months after that, I got an email from Google warning me that accounts that have not been accessed for two years will indeed be eligible for deletion starting on December 1st, 2023.

I've been wandering around Google's apps for some time now, and it occurred to me that I could have Google accounts I haven't used for years - and which, if I didn't check them, might have content I'd want to save. I knew I had three active Google accounts, and suspected I had at least one other I hadn't visited in a while, but I wasn't quite sure if there were any...

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