Hosting 1.8 billion active usersthat is 23% of the populationand 92% of US startupsGmail has become everything 27.8% of email client market share, according to financesonline.com. google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brincreated Gmail on April 1, 2004.
Since Gmail is used for work, school, or personal use, accounts can get mixed up and hectic. It is important to keep your emails organized by staying logged in to the necessary accounts and logged out of the unnecessary ones.
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Sign out of Gmail on a computer
Google advises to follow these steps:†
1. Log in to your Gmail account at gmail.com.
2. Click on your profile icon in the top right corner of your screen.
3. Select ‘Log out’. If you have multiple accounts signed in at once, the only option is to sign out of all accounts. You can’t sign out of just one Gmail account if you have several signed in.
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Sign out of Gmail on an Android or iPhone
Users can’t just sign out of Gmail on their mobile devices. However, they can completely delete their Google account from their device and sign out of Gmail and other Google applications such as YouTube and Google Maps. This will not delete the account.
To remove your Google account from your mobile device, Google recommends that you do the following: these steps: for Android and these steps: for iPhone:
1. Open Gmail on your Android or iPhone.
2. Tap your profile icon in the top right corner of your screen.
3. At the bottom, select “Manage accounts on this device”.
4. Android users must then select the account they want to remove from their device.
5. Tap the bottom button, ‘Delete Account’.
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Sign out of Gmail remotely on other devices
You may be signed in with your Google account on a device outside your home network that you want to make sure no one else has access to. Logging out of that device remotely will resolve these concerns.
If you want to sign out of your Google account remotely, Google recommends you do the following these steps:†
1. Log in to your Gmail account at gmail.com.
2. Tap your profile icon in the top right corner of your screen.
3. Select ‘Manage your Google account’.
4. Navigate to and select “Security”, the fourth tab on a computer and the fourth tab on the right on a mobile device.
5. Scroll down to and tap or click “Your devices.”
6. You will be shown all the devices that your Google account is currently signed in to. Select a device you want to log out of.
7. Confirm that you want to log out.
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