Notification of Inactive Google Account -

General_Grant

I have received an email as below (obviously changed email addresses) but wonder what inactivity they can mean given that I use my Gmail account every day.

Is this genuine? I am just very cautious and want to retain my Gmail address but not bothered about any other Google services.

Thanks for any advice.

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This is just a reminder that you have a plan set up in case you stop using your Google Account (my Gmail address). Your plan includes these settings:

[nothing seems to be written here]

We’ll try to contact you

2 months after your last activity, we’ll notify these points of contact:

• my Gmail address
• andanother@xxxxyyy.co.uk

Delete your account once all actions have been completed.

Visit https:// [this seems a genuine Google site] for more details and to modify or turn off your plan.

flaneurs_lobster

Think this is notification of what you have set up for when you are no longer using the Google account, either by choice or because you've become incapacitated (or dead).

Go into your Google account and look for

Inactive Account Manager

born_again

Just set phone to keep checking email account, that is all you need to do to stop them shutting the account down.

sausage_time

I consciously set this up and receive similar periodic reminders.

If you are logged in to your Google account you can see what has been set up (and modify if desired) here:

https://myaccount.google.com/inactive

https://myaccount.google.com/inactive

General_Grant

Thanks to all.

I feel reassured that my account is not about to be deleted by Google and they have my alternative email address if there is a problem in future.