A few years ago, having your own Gmail account was downright prestigious. The server is foreign, reliable, supported by sites that do not accept registration on yandex.ru or mail.ru.

Now we can observe the opposite trend: many users are closing their accounts on Gmail.com. Why? This is most likely due to the policies of Google, which owns the server. Although it is believed that the more services the better, this is not always the case. Especially if the services are offered on a voluntary-compulsory basis and entail consent to the collection and processing of data about the account owner - and this is precisely what the use of some Google services requires.

Here is the result: more and more people prefer to delete their Gmail account and keep their data intact, rather than use numerous and convenient services, while sending data from their computer to someone unknown.

Removal instructions

Deleting gmail is quite easy. The first option is to log into your account, click on the "Manage Data" link, then select "Delete Services" and finally, "Permanently delete Gmail service."

Now comes the most interesting part: deleting a profile does not mean deleting information about yourself from Google services.

1. The only thing that will definitely be impossible to use is mail, since it is the basic service on which the others are “screwed up”.
2. Even after deleting an account, the username remains taken, in other words, if the user wants to restore the profile, he will still have to change the username.
3. If you delete your Gmail account, it is not a fact that data stored in other services will also be deleted. You can check what exactly is stored on the server, whether it is the necessary data or not and whether it is worth leaving it on someone else’s server, in personal account. To do this, you need to log into your profile (click on your avatar or “blue head”), click on the “Feed” button on the left side of the screen and look at the “Applications” item, and also carefully “rummage through” the settings.
4. The mentioned “Feed” button in the profile can be used as another way to remove yourself from Google: the very last item in the feed is “Disconnect Google+”, accompanied by a link “To delete your Google profile, click here." By the way, this page provides detailed explanations of what will happen to each of the services, and much depends on whether Google+ is connected to your Gmail account, since pages+ are not deleted along with it, they will need to be deleted manually.

Communication with corporations is expensive. The difficulty of deleting your Gmail profile and data from it is a great example of how signing up with a couple of clicks can later turn into time-consuming steps to protect your privacy.

When you delete your gmail.com email, you don't lose your entire Google account. That is, the remaining services of this company - Google Play, YouTube, Google Drive, etc. - will continue to be available. But after completing the email deletion procedure, when logging into your account, you will indicate a different login - mailbox third party service. If you don't have one, be sure to register.

So, to delete your Gmail account, follow these instructions.

Settings menu

1. Go to your profile settings page - myaccount.google.com.

2. Click "Login".

3. Enter your username and password.

4. In the third block of options - “Account Settings” - click the link “Disable services...”.

5. On the new page, select “Delete services”.

Saving data from email

Attention! If there is no need to save contacts, correspondence and other data from your profile to your computer, proceed immediately to deleting your account (see the next subheading).

1. At the top of the panel, click the “Download data” function.

2. Left-click to disable saving unnecessary items in the list.

4. Select the archive format and method of obtaining (downloading) it. For example: “ZIP”, “By link”.

5. Click “Create archive”.

6. Wait a moment. Follow the instructions to receive a link to download the archived data.

Deleting a profile

1. In the list of services connected to your profile, in the “Gmail” block, click on the “trash can” icon.

2. Enter an email address from a third-party resource (for example, Yandex, Yahoo) in full format - “login”@“domain name”.

3. Click “Receive email...” to confirm your email.

6. Read the information on the page that opens, and then click the “Delete Gmail” button at the bottom of the text.

It often happens that a registered mailbox is no longer needed. If you do not erase it, then there is a high probability that criminals will have access to abandoned mail, scammers will send spam on behalf of the previous owner, etc. In this case, it is better to delete Gmail.

Preparing for removal

Before deleting your Gmail mailbox permanently, you need to carry out a number of preparatory procedures. First of all, you should take care of the safety important information. To do this, you should export the data to hard drive or removable media.

You can create a data archive in several steps:

Depending on the chosen method of obtaining information, you will be able to download files:

• via link;
• via Google Drive;
• via Dropbox;
• via OneDrive;
• through the Box service.

Pay attention! It takes a few minutes, hours or days to create an archive. It all depends on its size. After processing the request, the system will notify the user via the alternative email specified by him in the request to delete the account. Music from Google Play is not saved. You must download the tracks before deleting your Gmail address using a downloader.

The second step should be “unlinking” Google account from all services. For example, if your email was used for Internet banking or access to Youtube, you need to specify a new email address in each of the registered resources.

A new email must be linked so as not to lose access to sites and applications. If you want to restore a deleted address on Google in the future, and simply in order not to completely “burn bridges,” you can specify a phone number and backup email in the mailbox settings.

Important! If the user has registered several addresses at once, then when one of them is eliminated from hyperspace, the rest will not be erased. Each individual address must be configured manually.

Once the preparation is complete, you can delete your Gmail mailbox. The procedure is easy to carry out, but you cannot restore your account at any time.

Removal process

To delete Gmail permanently, you need to go through several steps. The procedure for eliminating mail itself depends on the device from which the action is planned to be performed.

It's easy to delete a gmail.com account:

1. In your Google account settings, go to the “Disable services and delete your account” subsection.
2. Enter password from Gmail.
3. Tick ​​2 boxes: agreement that the person is solely responsible for possible costs associated with transactions that were not completed through his fault, as well as permission to destroy information.
4. Click the button “Delete account.”

From computer

To delete Gmail email from Chrome:

1. Open browser.
2. Hover over your account image in the top right.
3. Log out of your account.
4. Make sure that you are logged out on all devices.
5. Return to Settings, located in the Google Account Management Center.
6. In the “Disable services and delete account” subsection, select "Delete services".
7. Enter the current password.
8. Select the trash can image next to the icon.
9. Follow further instructions from the system: a letter will be sent to an alternative address with a request to delete the email.
10. You must follow the link from the letter generated by the system. After the transition, the account, mail and all services will be eliminated from the PC.

Important! If a user has deleted his Gmail mail, but then suddenly has a desire to restore access, it will be enough to enter into Google the details of the mailbox through which the liquidation was carried out.

From phone

Attentive users, when preparing a smartphone for sale, try to understand how to delete personal data on Android or iOS. For many, it may come as a “surprise” that you cannot erase mail in the usual sense of the word. Simply deleting the Gmail icon from your smartphone will not completely destroy it.

The only available functions are log out of your account recording, unlink it from the phone, or hide the application icon. Subsequently, device owners will be able to easily log into their account from another device.

The process of deleting a Gmail account from your phone depends on the type of device you are using.

In order to unlink an account from an Android smartphone, you must:

1. Go to settings.
2. Go to the “Accounts” or “Synchronization” section (depending on the firmware version).
3. Select Google and the desired account.
4. Click on “More”. In the dialog box that appears, select “Delete account.”

For complete removal Some Gmail users resort to drastic measures: formatting and even changing the phone firmware. Last action Without special knowledge it is very difficult to implement. Because this may lead to system failure. Therefore, instead of deleting it is simply "detach box" from the device.

You can disable a pre-installed application in the following way:

• go to the device settings;
• go to the “Applications and notifications” menu;
• expand the list of all pre-installed applications;
• go to the desired program;
• Click “Disable Application”.

• go to the “Synchronization” section;
• click on Google;
• in the list that opens, uncheck Gmail.

After completing the steps described above, the program will not be displayed in the interface and will not be an eyesore.

For iPhone owners, the mechanism by which Gmail will be removed from the phone is as follows:

• open the application of the same name;
• select the menu in the upper left corner.
• click on your account.
• choosing "Account Management", a dialog box will appear where you need to click on “Change” and select the “Delete” option.

There is another way to delete Gmail on iOS. The process is carried out through "Settings":

• go to the “Mail” section;
• click on “Accounts”;
• select Gmail;
• click on "Delete account".

Consequences

Once you have managed to delete your gmail.com mailbox, you don’t have to worry about unauthorized access to it by third parties.

In addition, thanks to the elimination of mail:

• emails and settings will be erased;
• the user will not be able to use services from Google, namely: view letters, send them, etc.;
• other users will not be able to use words and symbols that were in the email name;
• the service will become unavailable, but the history of actions, transactions made through Google Play, as well as the Google account will be saved;
• The user will retain the opportunity to restore access in the future.

Pay attention! In order to restore your account, you need to log into it and follow the instructions.

How to restore mail?

Let's assume that the user accidentally deleted his mailbox on gmail.com. To restore, you must complete the following steps:

• go to the access page located on home page service;
• enter the email or cell phone address associated with the deleted account;
• click on "Recover account";
• enter password.

Pay attention! You can only access Google services within 7 days from the date of account termination. After the specified period, the restoration procedure becomes invalid.

The Google mailbox is a very useful communication tool. But sometimes there is a need to delete it: you want to register another account, use the services of another Internet resource, or hide the “traces” of your presence on the global network.

Deleting Gmail is a relatively simple task, but, nevertheless, sometimes it causes certain difficulties. Especially for novice users. Let's consider in detail two instructions for neutralizing a profile (the first is for a PC, the second is for a phone).

Deleting an account on a computer

1. Open gmail.com in your browser and log into your account.

2. Then in a new tab or in the same one in which the e-mail, in the address bar type - myaccount.google.com. And then press "Enter".

3. On the web page “...Google Services Control Center”, in the “Account Settings” block, follow the link “Disable services...”.

4. Select “Delete services” from the submenu.

5. On the new page, activate the option “Permanently delete the service - Gmail”.

Attention! If you want to get rid of your entire profile, and not just your email, in the “Delete account” block, click “Close your account and delete all services...”. Then follow the instructions of the service system.

6. Check the box next to the question “Delete [profile name]@gmail.com?”

7. Indicate in the special field the new address that will be used to log into Google account.

Warning! Specify a valid mailbox with an external address in standard format. For example, [email protected].

8. In the specified mailbox, open the letter received from Google. And then click the link in the text to confirm the request and, accordingly, delete it.

Deleting an account on your phone

(using the example of a device with Android OS)

1. Open Settings.

2. Go to the “Accounts and synchronization...” subsection.

3. Select the mailbox you want to delete.

4. Click the “Delete Account” option.

If operating system blocks the deletion procedure (the message “an account is required to access applications...” appears on the display), follow these steps:

1. Get root rights on your phone, which opens up the ability to fine-tune the Android OS yourself.

Attention! Look for a way to obtain root privileges specifically for your phone model.

2. Download/install the Root Explorer file manager on your phone from play.google.com or another trusted Internet resource.

Advice! You can use another manager. For example, Solid Explorer or ES File Explorer.

3. In the root directory file system open: Data → System.

4. In the “System” folder, delete two files - accounts.db and accounts.db-journal.

5. Reboot your phone. Check accounts. The email address (profile) should disappear.

Gmail just blew up the Internet. No other email site has provided such a large amount of memory for storing messages. The system for combating unwanted messages here was also organized on the highest level. And most importantly, you didn’t have to pay anything at all for all these amenities.

How to clear the message database?

So, gmail.com? If deleting your account seems too drastic for you, you can permanently delete only sent and received messages. To do this, go to the mail management interface at http://gmail.com/. Entering your login and password will help you complete authorization. If you have problems with this, go through the procedure for regaining access to your account, which involves changing your password. Once in the mail interface, select the “All Mail” shortcut. Select all messages using the button with a square and a down arrow. 50 letters displayed on the screen will be marked.

If all the correspondence does not fit on one screen of the system, then you need to click on the inscription “Select all chains”. Then you need to click on the icon with the image of an urn. All emails will be moved to the trash. After this, the procedure must be repeated, already in the directory for remote correspondence of the Gmail-mail service. The reader knows how to delete messages from the Sent, Spam and Drafts folders. To do this, you must repeat the process described above exactly.

Gmail

When starting this procedure, make sure that you are not currently registered with social network or some other service, access to which will be necessary in the future. Google system allows you to refuse Gmail mail services, while maintaining your account for access to the Plus social network, Youtube video hosting and other products. However, please note that after the mail account is permanently deleted, it will not be possible to re-register the same address.

Go to the Gmail mail service. It will become clear if you go to the corresponding menu and activate the “Settings” item, then go to the “Accounts and Import” page. By clicking on the line that says “Change account settings”, you will find a list of connected services. Click "Edit" in the header and the removal options will be displayed on the screen. Here you can decide whether only access to mail will be terminated, or whether the account will be completely liquidated.

Gmail and its alternatives

If only Gmail mail is taken into account (how to delete it was described above), then finding a replacement is quite easy - now domestic Internet services have quite spacious free mailboxes. However, not a single company from Russia or the CIS is yet capable of fully replacing all of Google’s diverse services. You will have to put together products from different manufacturers. The Mail.ru portal provides many interesting opportunities today. The site also has a calendar, mobile applications and with a volume significantly exceeding the Google Drive resource.

Conclusion

If the reader had a Gmail email, he now knows how to delete it. You should take care in advance to save all important letters that you will want to re-read later. Deleting data from servers does not happen in one minute, so in some cases the account can be restored by contacting the administration in a timely manner. If there is reason to expect foreign intelligence services to show increased interest in the contents of the correspondence, then deleting the mail will be a waste of time - copies of all incriminating materials have already been made. To reliably protect information transmitted over open communication channels, you need to use encryption. In this case, even after gaining access to the messages, the attacker will not be able to decrypt them.