Jul 18, 2019
How to find the creation date of google account gmail
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Last edited Jul 19, 2019
Hello,
For date of your account created, if you still have access to your account via your mobile, backup mails or mail clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird or mobile mail clients such as Gmail app, iOS mail app on iPad or iPhone, Android native mail clients, etc, try to check the first day you received mail. It might be the day you created the account.
You may also check email in your recovery email address. There might an email from Gmail when you added your recovery email address to the account that you need to recover.
Alternatively, if you still have access via web browser, you may go to your account settings --> forwarding and POP/IMAP, in the POP status, there is a date. Normally, that is also the date your account was created.
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Hello,
For date of your account created, if you still have access to your account via your mobile, backup mails or mail clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird or mobile mail clients such as Gmail app, iOS mail app on iPad or iPhone, Android native mail clients, etc, try to check the first day you received mail. It might be the day you created the account.
You may also check email in your recovery email address. There might an email from Gmail when you added your recovery email address to the account that you need to recover.
Alternatively, if you still have access via web browser, you may go to your account settings --> forwarding and POP/IMAP, in the POP status, there is a date. Normally, that is also the date your account was created.
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Jul 21, 2019
1) Google does not support account recovery.
2) Google account security relies 100% on an AI that is flawed and has no common sense. The google security AI will shut down your account randomly whenever you move (change IP address), get a new device, get a new job, etc.
3) All the recovery data you have, including current and past passwords will have no weight compared to the all important question - what was the exact day you started your google account?
4) Google does not provide you with any solid way of knowing that precise day you started your account.
5) Even if you know your password and provided a recovery email and a recovery phone and have validated your account through all those methods, if you do not provide the exact day you started your account the google AI will not give you your account back.
6) You cannot talk to a live human being about losing all your data because you accidentally tripped an AI alert by moving / changing jobs.
7) When google asks you "Someone logged into your account from a new device, is that really you?" you have no way of saying 'yes'. You can only report a fraud. If you look at that email it will trip the AI and might shut down your account even if you have the password and recovery information.
8) Google has TONS of your private information and it sells it without scruple every day but it claims that the only piece of information that they know about you is the date that you started your account.
9) Search the web, there is no sure way of finding the start date. The POP method only works if you decided to forward mail on the date you created your account. How many of us did that?
10) Google gives you 15GB of space for free. If you have ever gotten close to using that up, you probably erased old emails to save space - and you probably erased that welcome email.
11) Now you are sunk and all your data is gone and Google does not care. NEVER PUT IMPORTANT DATA ON A GOOGLE ACCOUNT. THERE IS NO WAY TO RECOVER IT.
12) Google claims to put a high value on data security but how secure is my data if it can all be taken away from me without any chance to recover it unless I know the exact date that I started my account BUT GOOGLE REFUSES TO GIVE ME ACCESS TO THE ONLY PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT IT RELIES ON FOR ACCOUNT SECURITY!
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