Gmail: disconnect your account remotely to protect your privacy! Tips

overly curious people from snooping through your email inbox ? Is disconnecting your Gmail account remotely still your main goal at the moment?

Perfect ! Protecting your privacy on the internet is the least you can do if you don't want to see your private information disclosed everywhere.

Here, we reveal how to protect your data from excessive Google curiosity by disconnecting your Gmail account remotely. Looking forward to discovering these different methods? Let's go !

Disconnect your Gmail account remotely: what you absolutely need to know! 

Disconnect your Gmail account remotely

Sometimes, we happen to check our various emails on a computer that does not belong to us. What happens then? Out of habit or inattention, we forget to log out our account before closing the active browser tab.

First consequence, the person who goes to webmail , just after you, will automatically have access to your electronic mailbox, without you realizing it. If you accidentally forgot to log out, there are some effective solutions.

Furthermore, if you are the owner of a Google account, know that Google's messaging service gives you the possibility of checking the list of all the devices connected to your account as Facebook . So, when you have doubts, you can simply remotely disconnect any devices that you consider to be illegitimate.

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How to disconnect your Gmail account remotely? 

You do not know how ? Here is a video that shows you excellently how to follow:  

You still didn't understand? Then try this other method:  

Step 1: Go to your Google account settings

With your computer, enter your web browser and put “ Google Account ” in the search bar. Then go to the account settings management panel. You will then see a page that looks like this:

Google account dashboard

So far everything is working fine. 

Step 2: Review the list of all devices connected to your account

Here you need to click on the " Security " section of your Google account. After that, scroll through the different options and stop on the one called " Your devices ".

Google account dashboard

Then click on << Manage devices >>. You will then see the list of all the devices with which you have already logged in at least once to your account. The next step will be to disconnect all these devices…

Step 3: Disconnect all devices from your Google account

In the list of devices connected to your Google account, you will undoubtedly see some that you no longer use and others that do not even belong to you, but on which you connected but forgot to disconnect. 

log out of devices on gmail

To disconnect your Gmail account from a device: 

  1. Click on the options button represented by three small dots aligned vertically in the right corner 
  2. Select << Log out >>

Do the same thing for all the devices that you don't use or no longer use and that you want to disconnect. 

Remote disconnection: the best weapon to protect your privacy on Google 

Log out from Gmail remotely

It is important to note that closing a browser window will not log you out of a Google account and everyone will be able to access it even after restarting the PC or smartphone .

The best thing to do, therefore, if you fail to log out before closing the browser would be to log out of your account remotely. Do this to protect your privacy on the web.  

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