As a Google account user, you must be familiar with the recovery email feature. This recovery email serves to help you when you can’t login to your Google account (main email). In addition, having a recovery email can better protect your Google account from preventing other people from accessing and changing the data in your Google account.
RECOVERY EMAIL IN GOOGLE ACCOUNT
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We can call the recovery email feature a support email from our Google account (main email). To be able to add a recovery email is actually very easy, this feature is already available when we create a new email. However, we are not required to fill in this recovery email. But, if in the future we need a recovery email to support the main Google account email (main email) you can easily add a recovery email in your Google account (main email).
HOW TO ADD RECOVERY EMAIL IN GOOGLE ACCOUNT
1. Prepare in advance the email you want to use as a recovery email. Make sure the email is still active.
2. Now, open the Google app on your android device and then tap on the profile photo icon on the top right side. Tap on the Manage your Google Account menu on the email you want to add a recovery email to.
3. On the Google Account page, locate and select the Security folder . Then look for the column How we verify that this is indeed you . There are two ways of verification, namely by phone number and email. For the phone number, it must be available because the phone number is mandatory when creating a gmail account, while the recovery email is not required when creating an email.
4. To be able to add a recovery email, press the right arrow icon on the recovery email menu and then type your email password in the field provided. Press Next .
5. Now, you just need to type in the recovery email that you have prepared earlier and then press Next . Then Google will send an OTP code to the recovery email address. Open the email that you registered as a recovery email to find out the OTP code that was sent. The OTP code that is sent will be different every time we add/change the recovery email address. Then, type the OTP code in the field provided and then press the Verify button .
6. Done, now your Google account has been successfully added a recovery email.
It’s easy isn’t it? Just by following a few easy steps as above, you can now add your Google account recovery email. In addition to adding a recovery email by following the steps above, you can also change the recovery email address that is already registered in your Google account.