Hello friends,
Once I had gone with a friend to one person. Actually he was working as a Insurance Agent. So while trying to convince the person to buy an insurance, he said something like this,
"If you die sir, your family will insured". Something like this. But this is not the context of this post.
Now coming into the post context,
"Google gives you an option to die peacefully".
You might be surprised why die peacefully? Who would someone want to die soon ? But what if while travelling,
the plane / train / bus /car or might be your beloved bike, you might face accident and die there. But just imagine, what would happen when you leave this earth with all your emails, photos, and everything in Google.
I don't know whether you have found it or not, but Google gives an alternate way to give your account credential to your loved one or trusted one (Sometime you can't just trust your loved one or may be you have some extra affair which your loved one should never know). Or just in case You might want all that data to be deleted so that no-one can misuse your emails / details / images or whatever you have associated with your Google account.
OK, a question arises. How to do it ? I have answers for your questions.
- Login into your Google Account. You might want to get the link. https://accounts.google.com/
- You will get a page like this. But you have more 2 steps to go.
- Click on "Data tools" link. Or click on this link.https://www.google.com/settings/datatools
- You will see INACTIVE ACCOUNT MANAGER. Click on Set up Inactive Account Manager.
Now you have to provide some details. i.e. Your email address, mobile number on which you want to be notified before any actions taken on your account. I am showing this step by step so that you don't have any problems while doing this.
Step - 1
Click on "Add mobile phone number". You will get an pop-up screen like this. Just provide the phone number and click on "Send Verification Code". You will get a code on your phone number and type in the box and click on "Confirm". If you have entered the correct code, then the number will be verified and the pop-up will be closed.
Step - 2
If you want to add another email, follow these steps. Or simply go to Step - 3.
Step - 3
This step asks you about the time period for which your account should be shared with someone or Deleted from Google Server.
Select a specified time period from the list.
Step - 4
Now comes an important step, you should be cautious while doing this. (You might reveal some dark truths.. ha ha).
OK. If you want your details to be shared, follow this step. Else move on.
- click on "Add Trusted Contact".
- Now you will see a box asking "E-mail address or Contact Name". Just enter the email of person. And tick the check box quoting "Share My data with this contact". And click on "Next".
- Now select the products which can be accessed by the trusted contact. You might "SELECT ALL" if you want.
- One important part is giving contact details (Phone number ) of that contact for verification purpose at a later stage. And then click on Next.
- A new box will appear. Enter some boring text or important like farewell messages just to scare him /her.
- If you want to add another Trusted Contact just follow the above steps again.
- Next step comes Set auto-response in Gmail. This is just like you set vacation mail in Gmail setting. (You are on permanent vacation, might be).
Step - 5
Optionally Delete Your Account.
I think this is the part most people will like. As no one wants their secrets to be revealed.
So, to do this just click on the red Button with "Yes". If you see No with grey background, then you are done.
All steps are complete. Now just click on "Enable" button at the end of page. And ta-da, you are done.
Thanks for Reading this blog. If you like it, spread the word buddy. Others should have idea too.
For security reasons, Always enable 2-steps verification on Google.
P.S. You have complete control over your account until you are alive or forgot everything like Password, your answer to secret question. Then you are like dead anyway. So keep them handy always. And add your phone number to account setting to Retrieve Password in case you forget the password.
It might be noted that, all images shown here are purely Google products. I have nothing to do with them.
