How to disable Gmail synchronization on your phone?

What happens if you delete your mailbox?

You probably know that your Gmail email address and password are your login and password for authorization in Google services. Therefore, it is quite logical to worry about the fate of your account - what will happen to it if you delete your Gmail mailbox? We answer: your Google account will be saved, as well as the data related to it (purchase history on Google Play and activity history. Login and password remain the same.

What changes if you delete Gmail mail:

* Emails from Gmail can be saved to Google Drive in advance. In the next section we'll show you how to do this.

Please note: if you realized that you were in a hurry to delete your Gmail mailbox and little time has passed since that moment, then it is possible to restore access to this address. There is a possibility that even the letters will be returned. To do this, go to the Gmail authorization page, click login and enter your previous username and password. Next, follow the system prompts.

Turn off synchronization or delete your Gmail account

The sync menu provides some options related to your Gmail account.

If you want to keep your Gmail connected to your phone but stop receiving notifications from it, you can simply turn off individual sync settings.

If you really want to delete an account from your phone, you need to open the menu by clicking on the three dots (or three bars). In this menu there is an option to delete your account that you will need to select.

How to log out of Google mail by deleting your account

Use deletion only as a backup option, so as not to bother with restoration in the future.

Attention! In addition to the erased data of the mail application, all other Google services are deauthorized. You should designate a different account as the primary account to avoid losing valuable materials.

To delete an account:

1. Open the application on your phone.
2. Click on the avatar icon in the upper right corner.
3. Tap on “Manage Google Profile”.

1. Go to the “Data and Personalization” section.

1. Click on “Delete” and follow the instructions.

Removal can also be done through system settings:

1. Open "Settings".

1. Go to “Accounts”.

1. Select your Google account and delete it.

After completing these steps, you can also erase the mail utility itself to free up memory.

Important! When deleted, the Google account will be disconnected from the smartphone. The account can be added to the device again, and previously linked phone numbers, photos, videos and letters will be restored.

Turn off Gmail notifications

You also have the option to turn off notifications for your Gmail account, leaving it synced but with notifications turned off.

Open the Gmail app, tap the menu icon in the top left corner to open the side menu, scroll down and tap Settings.

Find and tap your account, and in your account settings area, tap Notifications.

Change the notification intensity for your account from All to Disabled. Additionally, you can select "Important Only" if you want to allow notifications for the most important emails.

If you select "Disable", notifications for your Gmail account will be disabled; You will still receive emails without notification if you need to check them in the future.

How to do it

Before you delete your Gmail mailbox, you need to take care of the information you want to keep—the emails and the files attached to them. The following instructions are universal. It is performed through a browser, and on computers and smartphones these versions of the site are no different in functionality.

* You can find the archive in Google Drive space, in a folder called “Takeout”.

From computer

Removing Google mail (mailbox) from your computer:

If you used Gmail in an offline application, also erase Cookies and cache files from your browser.

From phone to Android

How to delete Google mail from an Android smartphone:

Next, to delete Jimail mail, you will need to perform several steps as instructed by the system - the necessary instructions will be on the screen.

*Log in if the system prompts you to do this.

Go to Settings > Accounts

The first thing you need to do is find the Accounts menu on your phone. Depending on your Android device model and Android version, this menu may be called "Sync" or something similar, but it's essentially the same thing.

You can do this by opening Settings and then selecting Accounts or Sync.

Important.

During this step, you must select this section and not the "Google" section in the main settings menu.

If you select Google in the main settings menu - you can completely remove

your Gmail account, rather than just removing it from a specific phone.

Why connect different emails to your phone?

But with emails everything is different! Each Google mailbox is also a free disk (in the cloud) for storing mailbox user files.

And if the user creates, say, 10 mailboxes from Google, then he will already have 10 cloud storages for his data. Or you can create all 100 boxes, you can even create 1000, if that makes any sense.

Other manufacturers offer the same “buns”. For example, in addition to Yandex mail, you can create your own current account in Yandex.Money. Or you can create 10 accounts if you have 10 mails from Yandex.

Thus, users of computers and gadgets are motivated to create not just one single email, as was the case 20 years ago, but to create many emails, each of which will be “attached” to various additional convenient and free services. And so far there are no restrictions on the number of email mailboxes. The only limitation can be common sense.

Therefore, email is essentially no longer just email. This is a kind of account, an account for accessing various additional services provided by developers. Such email-based accounts began to be used to identify owners of personal computers and gadgets (smartphones, iPhones, etc.), since it is simply convenient and understandable.

An account (account) is the same mailbox that virtually “hangs” near the user, but does not hang on a real pole, wall, fence, but “hangs” on the Internet.

Having an account allows the user of a computer or gadget to do many different actions in addition to receiving and sending email messages - this is the key to various useful services from the developers of such services.

Let's look at how you can connect different mailboxes to one smartphone:

On the computer

Here you can do everything according to the standard scheme (that’s where we’ll start) or remotely. Let's look at the instructions on how to sign out of Google Mail on your computer:

• Go to your Gmail profile.
• Click on the profile icon (upper right corner of the screen).*
• Select “Exit”

*If several accounts are connected in the browser application, mark the one that needs to be deactivated.

How to log out of Google mail remotely

• Log into your Gmail profile on any accessible computer.
• At the very bottom of the window, on the right, there is a “Additional information” button. Click on it.

• Another small window will appear on top of the main window. Here you need to click on “Log out of all other Gmail sessions”.

Important! The “Additional information” button mentioned in paragraph 2 of the instructions is sometimes located very low. Because of this, it sometimes partially overlaps the computer's taskbar and may go unnoticed.

Deleting a Google Account

Through the accounts menu

The easiest way to remove Gmail from Android is through the accounts menu. To do this, you need to go to the device menu, select Settings - Accounts - Google, then click on the specific account that you want to remove, click the menu button and select “Delete account”. After this, do not forget to reboot your device.

Clearing Google Services Data

If for some reason you cannot delete your Google account using the previous method, you can follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings - Applications - All - Google Play Services, then click “Clear data”;
2. Repeat the steps with the Google Services Framework application;
3. Reboot your gadget.

If you have root rights

Another effective method to delete a Gmail account from an Android device without losing personal data is to delete a special file from the Android system partition. But this action requires root rights. How to get superuser rights to your device, read on specialized forums in the section dedicated to your device.

So, how to clear your Google account on Android if you have root rights?

1. If you do not yet have a file manager installed with the ability to access the system partition, download and install it. The best options are Root Explorer or ES Explorer;
2. When starting, grant superuser rights to the application;
3. Go to the /data/system/ folder on the device itself. Find the accounts.db file in it;
4. Remove it and reboot your gadget.

Your Google account should now be removed from your Android device.

Resetting your device

What if none of the previous methods help? In this case, you will have to reset the device to factory settings, losing some data in the process. Luckily, information such as contacts is synced to your Gmail account, so they will remain intact.

The reset can be performed in two ways - through the settings menu or through Recovery. In the first case, open Settings - Security - Backup and reset - Reset settings.

In the second case, you need to put the device into Recovery mode. Most often this is done by pressing the Volume down or up key and the Power button. On some modern models of smartphones and tablets, you will immediately be taken to Droidboot mode, from where you can go to Recovery. Look for detailed information on special forms in the branch dedicated to your smartphone or tablet model. In Recovery mode, you need to select Wipe Data / Factory Reset mode and confirm the request.

After the reset is complete, the device will reboot with the settings it had before use. True, you will have to set everything up from the very beginning, but the Gmail account will be deleted.

Flashing the operating system

In the worst case scenario, you will have to replace the firmware. Look for information on how to do this on specialized forums. You may need to contact a certified technician at a service center.

How to delete a Gmail account from an Android phone

There is a standard method for eliminating a Gmail account, which is built into the Android program.
The instructions for using it are as follows: Step 1. Open your phone settings.

Step 2. Select the “Personal” section.

Step 3: Click “Accounts & Sync”.

Step 4: Find and highlight the Google profile you want.

Step 5: Touch the menu button at the top right, then touch “Delete Account.”

Step 6. After confirming the action, you need to enter the password and wait for the operation to complete.

Step 7: Reboot your device.

When the device turns on, the program will prompt you to enter new Google account information. Without it, the system will not work correctly.

Choose which Gmail account to remove from your phone

So, in the accounts and synchronization menu you can see a list of installed applications that have accounts linked to the device. And here you can select "Google", which will display a list of Gmail accounts on this device.

When you tap on the Gmail account you want to remove from your phone, the sync menu for that account will open.