Google Inactive Account Manager's Guide: How to Activate Gmail's Self Destruct Feature and Why It's Important

Google Inactive Account Manager is quite essential, especially for deceased users. When people die, it is important to make sure that their contacts are aware of what happened to them.

This is why you need to activate the Inactive Account Manager offered by Google in Gmail since it allows your email account to self-destruct once you die.

"Inactive Account Manager is a way for users to share parts of their account data or notify someone if they've been inactive for a certain period explained Google via its official website.

Google Inactive Account Manager: Why Gmail Users Need It?

According to Mashable's latest report, some users are concerned about their details on Gmail. They want to make sure that Google will not use them for other purposes once they die.

However, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai explained, back in 2020, the search engine giant will not do anything to the messages and other content on the Gmail accounts of its deceased consumers.

Pichai added that your information on Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos, and Google Calendar would not be used for advertising activities.

However, you need to remember that this privacy rule could still change, especially once the current CEO of Google is replaced by a new individual.

To make sure that your personal details would be protected, the best way you can do is activate the Inactive Account Manager.

How Inactive Account Manager Feature Works

As the name states, this feature will allow you to set the things you want to happen on your account when it is left inactive for some time.

You can either set the time to one week, one month, or even one year. But, before you do this, you need to remember that the deletion of your Google account would affect all the services you are using.

If you want to see more details, you can visit Google Account Help's blog post.

In other news, Google services, as well as YouTube, recently suffered from outages. Meanwhile, Gmail users were targeted by a phishing scam called bait attack.

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Written by: Griffin Davis