Go to the Gmail sign-in page and click the “Forgot Password” link. Enter the password you used last. If one isn’t familiar, try another question. Enter your secondary email address, which you used to get a password reset message when creating your Gmail account.

Login to your “Recovery email” page in My Account. from here, you may: Add a recovery email. Change your recovery email address: Select Edit next to your email address. Enter the address of your recovery email account. Select Done when finished.

If you can’t access your account because it has been deleted, start at https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery and follow the instructions. If you see “Couldn’t find your Google account” (and you can’t create a new account with that name), it’s permanently lost and gone for good.

If you can’t remember your Google email address, go to the Find My Email page and follow the instructions to recover it. You’ll need to be able on

Make a list of all of your accounts. … Use a password manager. … Examine and update passwords in existing password managers. … Sift through your inboxes to find emails you no longer need. nCheck sites that monitor data leaks. Check Google and other search engines for information on yourself, including name, e-mail address, and other