Creating an account
- How to create a Gmail account. The sign-up flow, phone verification with a Nigerian number, and Gmail versus Outlook and Yahoo.
Why a dedicated Gmail hub?
Gmail and Google Account settings are spread across several different menus -- Data & Privacy, Security, the Gmail app itself, and your phone's own account settings -- and search results routinely conflate actions that are actually quite different, like removing an account from a device versus deleting it entirely. Every guide here is checked against Google's own support pages and is explicit about which of these two very different actions it's covering.
Getting started
Signing out
Logging out
- How to log out of Gmail on all devices. One device, or every session at once.
Deleting or removing an account
Deleting the account
- How to delete a Gmail account. Removing just the Gmail service, or the whole Google Account.
Removing it from a device (not deleting)
- How to remove a Gmail account from your phone. Reversible, and different from deletion.
Recovery
Forgotten password
- How to recover your Gmail password. Google's own recovery page, and how to spot a phishing attempt.
People also ask
What's the difference between removing Gmail from my phone and deleting the account?
Removing an account from a device just signs it out on that device -- the account and its emails are untouched, and you can sign back in anytime. Deleting the account (or just the Gmail service) is a separate, longer process that actually removes the emails.
Are these guides sourced from Google directly?
Yes. Every guide in this hub cites Google's own support.google.com documentation for its core steps.
Will more Gmail guides be added?
Yes, as more topics clear this site's sourcing-confidence bar.