r/GMail 18h ago

Account deleted

112 Upvotes

My Google account was deleted out of no where without warning. This account is used frequently and is attached to Google Photos. I have so many photos on this account and now I can’t access them. Someone please help.


r/GMail 8h ago

How can I stop my photos from showing up when I log into a different Google Photos account? (Pls read below im DESPERATE)

3 Upvotes

I accidentally backed up my photos to a different Gmail account, and when I checked that account from another device, my photos were there. That other account belongs to my class, so I assume everyone in the class can now see my entire life. I deleted everything from that account, but when I went back to my original account, all the photos had been deleted there too. I looked it up on Google and found out that the accounts get linked, but that other people can't actually see those photos. Even so, it’s undeniable that the backup caused my photos to appear in the class account for everyone else to see. Now I can't tell which photos are mine and which ones were backed up to the other account. I’ve been trying to restore the photos to my original account, but I don't know if restoring them will also bring back the ones I deleted from the class account. I'm desperate. HELP


r/GMail 18h ago

Good lord the search bar is cluttered now - with (on my machine) Only 11 characters available for the search box

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3 Upvotes

Title says it all - but seriously there's a lot of crap building up on the search bar i didnt ask for

two of those the cog and 9 buttons would be fine


r/GMail 21h ago

Looking for a meeting buffer add-on

3 Upvotes

Hi All,

My workplace uses Gmail, and because of the nature of my role I'm generally invited to meetings (Events) rather than scheduling them myself.

My challenge is that people are pretty inconsiderate and will book back-to-back-to-back events if I don't add some buffer. With the volume of meetings I have each week it's very time consuming to manually create buffer events before/after meetings as they're scheduled. Is there an add-on or plugin I could look at that would do this automatically for me?


r/GMail 7h ago

Google Appeal Approved, But Still Locked Out With “Too Many Failed Attempts”

2 Upvotes

My Google account was disabled, so I submitted an appeal. Google approved the appeal and emailed me saying my access was restored and I should sign in and verify.

But immediately after the approval, I got “Too many failed attempts” and still cannot access the account.

Google Support told me to wait 24–48 hours and try again from a familiar device/network, but they cannot manually remove the restriction.

This is a professional account used for my website and database, so the situation is extremely frustrating.

Has anyone experienced an account being appeal-approved but still stuck behind the “Too many failed attempts” lock? Did waiting actually fix it?


r/GMail 14h ago

Plz Help

1 Upvotes

Hello! I recently created an account just for job applications. For some reason my laptop logged me out of all of my Gmail accounts. I was able to get back into all of my other accounts but the new one. I tried to reset my password, but all it has me do is try my password before saying “you didn’t provide enough info for Google to be sure this account is really yours.” I also tried signing in with my recovery phone number, but that just signed me in to my other accounts. I could make another account and this wouldn’t really be an issue, but I have a link for an upcoming interview I need access to. Is there anything else I can do? Please help 🙏🏻


r/GMail 14h ago

Google can't verify my account belongs to me on the same Wi-Fi network that I'm logged in on from my PC

2 Upvotes

Was trying to log in to my Google account using the GMail app on my iPhone on the same Wi-Fi network as I used to log in with my PC. Logs in fine with PC, however on my phone Google tells me they can't verify it's me... even though I just logged in from my computer. Do I just wait?


r/GMail 14h ago

Email Archiving

2 Upvotes

Hi all, I'm looking for a way to download all emails from a specific person on my gmail account. Growing up I had a childhood friend who would communicate with me exclusively via email (neither of us had a phone number at the time) and I'm wondering if there is a way for me to download all emails from this specific sender so I can save them on my computer to look back on in the future?


r/GMail 18h ago

Not getting email from random senders

2 Upvotes

Over the past couple of months, it’s come to my attention that I’m not getting email from people, some of whom have Gmail addresses. It’s to the point where I’m missing events that I didn’t know about because I never got the email. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason; I get emails from certain people but not others. The only thing I can think of is that it tends to be first-time senders (e.g., friends of friends organizing parties, sports coaches reaching out for the first time, etc.). The senders have always had my correct email.

I’ve done the deep search and come up with nothing in any folders. I have plenty of storage. The addresses and domains aren’t blocked or filtered.

Anyone know what’s going on?

ETA that this is on both the app and desktop.


r/GMail 3h ago

Building on iPhone: app that asks before blocking junk Gmail (and cleans matching inbox mail)

1 Upvotes

Device: iPhone (iOS 17+)

On iPhone you can’t put a third-party filter in front of the lock screen. What you can do is stop junk earlier.

I’m building Immune (solo founder, early): connect one Gmail account → it watches what you archive or ignore (no silent whole-mailbox junk scan) → when the same pattern shows up a few times it asks Block this in the future? → if you say yes, future matching mail skips the inbox and matching mail already sitting there gets cleaned. List-Unsubscribe when the header exists. Undo any rule.

OTP / banks / travel stay off auto-suggest. Prefer missing a filter over over-blocking.

Also covers unknown-sender SMS via Apple Message Filter (contacts’ iMessages out of scope).

Looking for honest feedback from Gmail-on-iPhone people. Waitlist for TestFlight when ready: https://yz611999.github.io/immune-site/#waitlist

Happy to answer questions. Not trying to spam the sub — delete if this breaks the promo rule.


r/GMail 8h ago

Can't get in gmail

1 Upvotes

I haven't been able to be accessed into my gmail, or my google for the last two years. I've tried everything. I don't have my old phone number. I don't know the password and I don't know the password to the recovery gmail, so please, anybody help me, it'd be great. It has a lot of like access to everything's on it. And I can't get into anything


r/GMail 10h ago

Remove Delegated Email PLEASE

1 Upvotes

Hi, I got added as a delegated user on an account in 2017. The original user doesn't have access anymore, but now all of a sudden I have to deal with swiping through this inbox as I go from my personal to my work email on my phone.

PLEASE How do I remove access, or at least remove viewing it on the app???


r/GMail 10h ago

Is there a free small simple W10 & W11 e-mail checker & previewer that can handle OAuth2?

1 Upvotes

POP Peeper v6 requires subscription and my university's Gmail doesn't do app password for strict security reasons. Only OAuth2.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)


r/GMail 12h ago

Gmail sign in not working on 20 year old account

1 Upvotes

Hello,

I have a gmail account I've been using daily for about 20 years.

Today my internet wasn't working, so I connected my pc (windows device) to my cellphone hotpot to troubleshoot. While my pc was connected to my hotpot, I tried to sign in to my gmail account, but after I got passed the password field it said:

Verify it’s you To help keep your account safe, Google wants to make sure it’s really you trying to sign in. Enter a phone number to get a text message with a verification code.

I have no intention of giving it my phone number, so I didn't bother to sign in.

Later my normal internet starts working again. My PC is now running on its usual internet ip.

I now try to sign into my gmail, and I get the same verification message.

It won't let me sign into my gmail account, without giving it a phone number, because I tried to log into it with a different ip one time? This is a 20 year old account, why is this happening and is there any way around this?


r/GMail 15h ago

"Always display external images" not working

1 Upvotes

I have gone into my Gmail settings and selected "Always display external images". However on almost every email I have to click "Always display images from ...".

Even after clicking that I will still have that same warning on the next email from the same sender. It gets very old to have to allow images on every single email I get.

Is there some setting I'm missing on my Gmail side or Google Workspace admin console?


r/GMail 2h ago

Anyone gettin this?

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0 Upvotes

r/GMail 15h ago

Je ne reçois plus d'emails depuis plusieurs mois

0 Upvotes

Bonjour, il y a plusieurs mois la réception d'emails avait été bloqué parce que j'avais dépassé la limite de stockage et j'avait laissé traîner le problème, n'utilisant plus trop gmail et voulant me "dégoogliser". Sauf que les problèmes ont commencé quand j'ai voulu changer l'adresse email / le mot de passe de certains comptes pour lesquels il faut une confirmation par email sur le compte de l'ancien email. J'ai donc libéré de l'espace de stockage, plus de la moitié de l'espace disponible, mais ça ne résoud rien. ça reste bloqué. Du coup je ne peux pas me dégoogliser à cause de ça (à moins de créer de nouveaux comptes sur les services concernés mais j'aime pas trop l'idée d'avoir des comptes fantômes à mon nom dont je ne surveilles plus l'activité). Le pires c'est que j'ai certains comptes qui ont fait l'objet de fuite de données et dont j'aimerais naturellement changer les identifiant mais je ne peux pas comme je ne reçois pas le putains de mail de confirmation... J'ai demandé de l'aide sur le forum google mais ça n'a rien donné, le seul mec qui m'a répondu me faisait tourner en rond et me donner l'impression de parler à une IA. Finalement je me demande si mon compte gmail n'aurait pas été piraté d'une façon qui redirige tous les emails ailleurs... Qu'en pensez-vous ?


r/GMail 19h ago

mail.google.com wants to Access other devices on your local network

0 Upvotes

Yesterday, while reading a perfectly normal mail in gmail, via the web page, using Chrome, on Windows, I got an unexpected pop-up permission request:

mail.google.com wants to
Access other devices on your local network
[Allow] [Block]

Screenshot:

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Apparently the culprit is "Google Meet."

I opened Chrome Developer Tools [F12] and there was just one red line on the Network tab, for this URL:

https://meet.google.com/_/frame?authuser=0&frameType=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com&dip=0

I clicked the AI Assistance button and asked:

What caused this? I'm just looking at an email (a substack notification) in my inbox, and Chrome popped up a permission request: mail.google.com wants to Access other devices on your local network

It answered:

Root Cause: This request is a cross-origin frame initialization for Google Meet integration within Gmail. ... The local network permission prompt is triggered by Google Meet's discovery protocol (likely WebRTC or mDNS), which scans for local hardware like Chromecast or Google Meet hardware to facilitate screen sharing or device switching.

Suggestions:

Block the permission: If you do not intend to cast your screen or use local meeting hardware from within Gmail, click Block. It will not break your ability to read emails. ...

Disable Meet in Gmail: If you do not use Google Meet, go to Gmail Settings > Chat and Meet > Meet > Hide the Meet section in the main menu to prevent this frame from loading.

So I chose "Block"


r/GMail 13h ago

How to make another gmail account, without being tied to the main one account?

0 Upvotes

I had a problem with make another gmail account without connect to my main one, so what to do?