Whether or not you can recover a deleted Google account depends on how long ago it was deleted. Basically, the sooner, the better. Google doesn’t say what the cutoff point is, but some non-Google ...

The more inventive idea from Google is allowing your friends and family members to act as recovery partners for your Google account. If you’re locked out of your account after forgetting a password or ...

You can turn to trusted contacts to recover your Google account. You can also sign in to a new phone just by using your number. Google Messages will alert you to spam and keep your texts private.

Google is announcing new privacy and recovery tools to combat spam across multiple products related to Android, including suspicious link detection in messages, sign-in with phone number, and recovery ...

When you can’t sign in to your Google account, try Google’s account recovery process to attempt to regain access. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic When you can’t sign in to your Google account, your ...

A report from The Wall Street Journal last week sounded the alarm on an obvious, but frightening issue on iPhone that would allow a criminal to take over your Apple account. But that’s not something ...

Can bad actors use your stolen phone PIN to change your Google account password? Sadly, yes, they can, and recent reports have explained how this is possible. Some people might be aware of this threat ...

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 ...

Your Google account password holds the key to so much of your online life—from your emails to your working documents and basically anything and everything you’re ...

The technology industry (Apple, Google, Microsoft) ultimately wants to get rid of passwords with passkeys. Until then, the Google Password Manager is starting to offer on-device encryption so that ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. At the forefront of the passkey push is ...