Google’s new Recovery Contact feature lets a trusted friend help you regain access to your account if you get locked out.

Use Gmail's "Recovery Contacts" feature to regain access to your Google account during an emergency. All you need to do is reach out to a trusted contact.

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. For a lot of us, Google plays an outsize role in digital life. Through its various apps and services, Google handles our online ...

That Google account you haven't checked in years might be getting wiped this week. Beginning Friday, Google is moving ahead with its plan to delete accounts that have been inactive for at least two ...

A new Gmail phishing scam impersonates Google IT support to gain account access. The scam involves fake password recovery emails and requests for security codes. Google advises against clicking links ...

The Google Labs experiment may reduce some AI Overviews in search but there's still no official way to disable the feature completely. Still, one simple trick seems to have better results, and that's ...