Gmail Account Recovery and Security
This article will help guide one through the process of recovering a lost Google Gmail account and, if needed, securing the account so that is it less likely to be compromised again. Table Of Contents Account Recovery Walk-Through Lost Password Recovery Lost Account Name Accounts With 2-Step Verification Enabled G Suite accounts Additional Recovery Hints and Tips Other Account Recovery Cases FAQ About Account Recovery Securing Your Account Protecting Your Account Contents Account Recovery Walk-Through During the course of 2016 Google made significant changes to the process of account recovery. In general it was simplified to a more generic process covering several specific cases. This means that any recovery process you may have used in the past is probably different now, so don't be surprised. Additional sources of information include the Gmail Help Center and the GMail Help Forums , both of which support searching for topics of interest. Lost Password Recovery The recover pro...