Many users have a Google account and for one reason or another, either they do not use it or they want to delete it to start from scratch with a different account. When you are thinking about deleting your Google account it is important to know that this means that we eliminate many other things, therefore, it is best that we save or download them if we do not want to lose them, since then we may not be able to recover them. Below we will show the steps to follow to delete your Google account and everything that will be deleted with it so you can save it before you go.
How to download all your data before deleting the Google account
In the first place, it is necessary to know that at the moment we delete our Google account, we will lose all the data and contents associated with that account. That is, we will lose our mail messages, files, photos, videos, calendars, etc. Also, after deleting your Google account you will no longer be able to sign in with Google services such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Play, etc.
If you have also purchased something on Google Play, such as apps, movies, games, or music, you will also lose access to it, just like the subscriptions in your YouTube account. If you also use to navigate the Google Chrome browser, you will also lose information stored in it, such as bookmarks and, of course, your Gmail address and all mail messages.
However, Google itself allows you to create a file with your data to download and save them. To do this, you have to go to the page Download your data from Google, indicate all the data you want to save, the type of file in which we want to pack all this Google data and if you want to send them by mail or add to one of our cloud accounts in Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Box.
How to delete your Google account
With all our data stored on the PC or a non-Google service, you can proceed to delete your Google account. To do this, the first thing we have to do is go to the Delete your Google account page. First of all, you will ask us to log in with the account we want to delete.
Once this is done, Google will show us a page where it warns us of all that is involved in deleting your Google account and will also provide us with the link to the page to download all the data associated with it. In addition, it will show us a summary of everything we will lose when we delete the Google account if we do not save it previously.
Finally, we must accept that if we have any charge pending for any transaction or purchase that we have made with our Google account, we remain responsible for it even though we will delete the Google account. You also have to check the box that confirms that you want to permanently delete your Google account and the data it contains, and then you can click on the Delete account button and finish the process.