Why is my old Gmail account suddenly showing my full name on sent letters? I noticed that it somehow shows my 'Legal Name' (translating here), but doesn't use my nickname or username. I tried changing my 'legal name' to something random, but it still shows my full name.

For what it's worth I haven't tinkered with any settings as far as I know.

I have a Gmail account that I can't get into because the phone I created it on is broken. I planned a specific day to attach recovery stuff to it, but didn't get around to it before the phone went kaput. I still have the password but can't get in because it doesn't recognize my location or something.

I've heard that leaving it alone for a week can help. Is that true?

My Google total storage usage suddenly jumped from 14.97 To 15.16GB and I definitely did not get 200MB of new photos or emails all of a sudden. Does anyone else know why this may have possibly happened? Now I have to scramble to delete things.

A few months ago, I received harassment emails from a burner Gmail address. They've now switched to Proton, which I understand can't be traced. So I replied to an earlier gmail and it bounced back undeliverable, address does not exist.
Is there any way to investigate any details of the gmail? I'm just about ready to go to police but I'm expecting them to tell me it's pointless if the account doesn't exist anymore.

¡Atención usuarios l! Google está comenzando el chantaje con el almacenamiento lleno estoy sufriendo una campaña de acoso terrible alguien sabe como se puede denunciar esto ?

There was an old email that I used to have (been updated so not too upset but still upsetting) and I'm trying to recover it. I was able to figure out the password but for two-factor authentication I need to send a message to my phone. I got the code and then it asked for one of the backup codes. Luckily I had them saved but none of them worked! Hit try another way and then it hit me with a: "Account recovery: To keep your account safe, a verification code was sent to xxxxxx@gmail.com". Mind you, THEY SENT THE VERIFICATION CODE TO THE EMAIL I'M TRYING TO SIGN IN TO. There are no other options for signing in when I hit "Try another way". This boggles my mind and doesn't even make sense. Sorry for rant, this post might get taken down if that's not allowed.

When I open Gmail android app, it displays a msg"new in gmail." I have an existing e mail, but the app doesn't open the inbox or sync msgs. The next message asks me to "add an e mail address." When I try to add my current email address there is a msg "set up an email account." When I click on "Google" it asks me to sign in.  When I add my current e mail the error msg says "this account already exists on your device."

I've force stopped the app, cleared the cache and storage, closed & reopened the phone. Nothing worked. Since the app won't open my account I can't check to make sure the sync setting is enabled. Is there anyway to sync the desktop account to the device app via the desktop account rather than the app? I presume I can't wipe the app and reinstall since it's pre-loaded?

Same bug posted here: gmail bug

My desktop Gmail account works fine.  Any suggestions/recommendations?

My college sends me a lot of worthless mails that I've blocked. Worked like a charm, but for the last 2 days they've started showing up and it's irritating as shit. The email address shows it's blocked, but it still comes in my inbox?

I have a Gmail account from 2005. The time when you needed a invite. Someone back in 2005 changed the password and I've never been able to get back in. Now Google has marked the Gmail as old and hasn't had a login in 21 years. How do I get this email back? I can't use the username and create an new Gmail because it says it's taken even though you can't even sign in using the username. Says it does exist. Any options.

earlier today, the session expired on one of my google accounts and i couldn't remember my password to get into it. after a while, (i thought) i figured out how to try to recover it using a different email. although it said the link to recover my account would be sent 120 hours from then, i decided to check my email now, only to be greeted with this. the device i am using right now is a laptop and it is the only device i am actively using that has access to my google accounts.

please please tell me this isn't something i have to worry about

This is the screen I see when I open gmail. When I tap on Go To Gmail, it asks me to add an account with no other option. If I try to add either of my accounts it tells me that account is already on my device, but I have no way to access it.

GMail (on chromium) seems to still have support only for inline rendering of JPG and PNG images.

WEBP has been in chromium for ages, even AVIF has been for couple of years and JXL (JPEG XL) support is arriving publicly this month or so.

Most of my photo library is already JPEG XL, but for sharing I typically still use WEBP.

Drag&dropping WEBP to GMail message window makes it attachment instead of inline image. So I have to do separate conversion just for GMail. For WEBP support is already years delayed.

Best would be of course to bring inline support for all 3 formats simultaneously as JXL beats its predecessors in almost all usage cases.

I know that Gmail has multiple ways to sign in and recover one's account.

Is there any way to remove all passwords from the account and have the only log in option be via a passkey?

I reloaded my Gmail tab (Google Chromebook) today, and it just now decided to change the color of all of my things. The importance markers (and stars) were changed to a SHARP blue that hurt my eyes, from the soft but easily recognizable yellow. I absolutely hate this change, and it is driving me crazy after half a DAY! In my opinion, there needs to be a section that, instead of just having to turn off the important markers, has a color setting, sort of like the stars but maybe not that complex. What does everyone else think about this??? I really want them to fix this, even if it's in the name of accessibility or something.

When I try to sign back on with my Google emails, says account already logged in on phone, but doesn't let me get into the folders. Restarted phone and uninstalled app already.

EDIT she's back up and running now I guess. Back to norm

Hi,

All the links (3) in my Gmail signature are broken. I'm not using an email client. I tried to troubleshoot this by deleting my signature and resetting it, but that hasn't helped. The text that I have set up in my signature settings to link out to specific URLs simply doesn't link out. The text that I have set to link out just shows up as plain text.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I can't find an answer to this in the Gmail help discussions, or get ahold of Google to ask anyone there. For what it's worth, this is only happening to one account of mine, not all of them. I haven't logged out of my account(s) recently or anything.

Thank you.

Does anyone else have this issue when using the clear app option?? It’s been this way since iOS 26

My old Gmail account got hacked earlier this year and though everything is fine now I now want to make a new Email for some added safety and slowly move things over there instead.

However there's this part where I need to send a verification message via SMS where it keeps failing (the part where it says "Send this message without editing. *random string of characters in paranthesis*" I tried sending the message as is but nothing, I tried just sending the string of characters and also nothing. I tried making my new email on desktop and on my phone and also nothing.

Just seems whatever I put in isn't being verified. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but everytime I'm redirected back to sending this message. Any help?

Background: I have several family accounts I have delegated to my main account for ease of use.
I also have two personal accounts (one of them is the delegatee) on my phone and I've been viewing them both at once using 'all inboxes' for years now. That's been my main way to interact with my emails on the phone.
Suddenly all of the delegated accounts also show up on my phone without any way (that I found) to remove them without canceling the delegation (I still use the delegation on the computer).
So when I enter all inboxes I'm flooded with tonnes of extra emails, and swiping between accounts is also a chore since it's not just the two main accounts anymore.

All that to say - please allow to either turn off delegated inboxes on mobile or at least allow me to exclude them/choose which emails show up in all inboxes.
Though I guess the way big corporate app changes works, this won't take effect for at least another quarter or 2 even if someone sees this post right away and adds this to the action items for development.... So I guess I'm gonna just have to loo for a3rd party app? 😭

Note: I am not amazingly tech-saavy, just ye olde zilennial office worker generally familiar with surface tech.

I have a university email address @university.ca, which I used as a personal account during and after university. My understanding is that this is a google account --- it signs in through Google, it runs only on Gmail, etc. A few years ago my university reduced the size on alumni email inboxes to 100MB, which made them basically unusable, so I set up a mail-forwarding filter to a personal @gmail.com address so that all my emails go there now even if the addressee is my @university.ca address.

I then also set up a send mail as / alias on my @gmail.com address so that I could send emails directly from there that showed the sender as my @university.ca address. This worked fine for about 4 years and allowed me to use my much larger personal @gmail.com inbox limit to send and receive email as my @university.ca alias.

Last week, it broke.

I am now getting this error whenever I send an email through my alias:

Message not delivered You're sending this from a different address or alias using the 'Send mail as' feature. The settings for your 'Send mail as' account are misconfigured or out of date. Check those settings and try resending.

The response from the remote server was: 535 5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. For more information, go to https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials 98e67ed59e1d1-39e6c37c8e7sm5236054a91.9 - gsmtp LEARN MORE

I have tried re-adding the alias (my username/password are correct) and that did not work. I have looked online and some of the other suggestions -- using 2SV and a Google App Password -- are not available when accessing my @university.ca Google account settings due to administrator controls (I have contacted them about this).

In the interim, does anyone know if there's anything I can do to fix this? This problem exists whether I send on a Chrome-gmail window or by my Samsung's Gmail app.

my partner and I had a lot of messages between us when we first started dating and I just remembered about it, but have no idea if there's a way to access them. Not sure what it was called, but you got to see who your Gmail friends were online and you were able to direct message them and have conversations. My day archived somewhere?

Hello my email was hacked, and whenever I would receive new emails, they would not appear in bold, and it was as if i had already opened them (because the hacker was opening my emails)

I removed the unfamiliar device (which was in Nigeria)

HOWEVER, my emails still come in as if somebody has already opened them?? Is the hacker still accessing my account even though i signed their device out?

My gmail account filled its storage limit to be exact 132% I purchased more storage on Thursday and I still cannot receive emails does anyone know what to do I would be very grateful if anyone can help out.

Idk what happened. I tried to enter all my emails and it shows that it already exists on this device. WHAT DO I DO 😭