Google announced its intention to begin deleting inactive accounts on the Gmail email service next December, which means that anyone who has not used his Gmail account for a long time may need to access it now to avoid deleting it.
As part of the plan to delete inactive accounts announced last May, Google says that if the user does not access his account for two years, it may be deleted and its contents deleted.
For Gmail users, this means losing not only email addresses, but also photos, emails, Google Docs files, and notes saved on the user’s account.
However, in order for the account to be deleted, the user must not access it for at least two years and ignore the numerous warning messages that Google sends to him warning that the account will be deleted if it is not used.
It is noteworthy that free accounts that the user has not used for a long time but wants to keep also face the risk of deletion, if a long time passes without using them, so he can resort to the calendar service to remind him of the need to log into the account every once in a while to avoid deleting it.
At the same time, the periods allowed to pass without using the account to delete it vary from one service to another. While Microsoft and Google accounts are deleted after about two years, the X platform (formerly Twitter) deletes the account if only 30 days pass without using it.
