Google introduces new ways to sign in to Gmail if you’ve lost access to your email

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Accessing your Gmail account when you’re locked out using just your phone number. | Image credit-Google

Use Recovery contacts to access Google apps you’ve been locked out of. | Image credit-Google

You must set up Recovery Contacts before you lose access to your account so you might want to take care of this now. From your browser go to: myaccount.google.com/security. Make sure that you’re on the Security tab. Scroll down to a box on the left side that says Recovery contacts. Tap on it, follow the directions to verify your identity, and you’ll be taken to a page where you can add Recovery contacts. Tap the + Recovery contact button and you’ll be able to add as many as 10 people you trust to help you access your Gmail account, or any Google app that you have been locked out of.

Google introduces the aptly named “Sign in with Mobile Number”

Google also has launched a way for Android users to verify their identity and regain Gmail access with nothing more than their mobile number. Google’s Sign in with Mobile Number works like this. Punching in your phone number will bring up accounts connected to that number. Tap the account you want to sign in to and enter your lockscreen passcode. Without a password, you will still be able to access your account.

Eugene Liderman, Google’s director of Android security and privacy, said, “We are introducing this gradually worldwide, watch for it on a phone near you.” 

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