What is Google Account?

A Google Account gives you access to most Google products using email address passkey and password. Your Google Account helps you get the most out of all type Google services, personalize experience, and give you full control over your data.

Signing in to your account gives you access to helpful features like autofill, helpful suggestions, easy access to your most important information, and more.

Within your Google Account, you can edit your personal information and update privacy and security settings. You also have control over where your personal information is visible. Your Google Account helps keep personal information, like credit cards, passwords, and contacts, securely in one place.

Find out if you have a Google Account

You have a Google Account if:

• You have a Gmail account
• You use an email address and password to sign in to Google services
• You use Google services on your Android device

Your Google Account and Google services

A Google Account is required to save your data when you use Google services, such as:

Gmail

Google Play

Photos

You have the option to use other Google services without a Google Account, but signing in to your account provides a better experience.

For example, signing in with your Google Account allows you to:

• Resume a YouTube video from where you left off on another device.

• Choose to sync your information between Google services. This adds emails about flights for your upcoming trip directly to your Google Calendar.

• Auto-fill passwords, addresses, and payment methods saved in your account.

• Sign in more securely and faster to third-party apps or websites.

• Your Google Account has built-in security features that keep your information safe and give you easy access to your information across services.