Some Important Settings You Should Do In Gmail Account

Friends Gmail, in today's time all smartphone users use it, be it Android user or iPhone user. Everyone knows that Gmail is Google's free email service. Gmail is used when one has to take or give a document or send a notification to someone. But in this post we will read that Some Important Settings You Should Do In Gmail Account and how to protect your Gmail account.

Some Important Settings You Should Do In Gmail Account

 

1. Gmail Security Alert

You can receive notifications from Security using Gmail Security Alert. For example, if a user or hacker tries to hack your Gmail account or crack a password, you will get a message. By which you will know that someone is tampering with your Gmail account. So if you get any such message or information, you can change your account password in advance. So let's see how to turn on the settings of Gmail Security Alert.

Steps:

1. open your Gmail Account
2. Click on My Account
3. Click on Sign & Security
4. Security Alert Setting -> Manage settings
5. Click on Critical Security Alert & then Done
   

 

2. Two Step Verification Of Gmail Account

With the help of two step verification method, you can improve your account even more. Suppose the ID and password of your Gmail account is with a friend or relative and they want to login on their computer or any device, then they cannot login to your account even if they have a password. Whenever someone wants to login to your account, then you will get a 6 digit verification code, the user will be able to login to the account only when they enter this code otherwise they will not be able to login to your account.
So let's see how you can activate this two-step verification feature for your  Gmail account.

Steps how to setup two-step verification meth

1. Login to your Gmail Account
2. Click on My Account
3. Click on Sign & Security
4. Under Password & Sign-in Method -> Click on 2-Step Verification 
5. Click on Get Started & Enter Your Password then NEXT
6. Enter your Phone Number -> Select Text Messages then Next.
   

 

3. Gmail Recovery Email

The second setting is recovery email. Users create their own accounts but some users do not enter a recovery email in their account. Password can be easily reset by recovery email. If the user has forgotten their account password and has not given the phone number, then the recovery account has a lot of difficulty and the account cannot be recovered, so it is very important to enter a recovery email. So let's see how to add recovery email to Gmail account.

Steps How yo Add Recovery email

1. open your Gmail Account
2. Click on My Account
3. Click on Sign & Security
4. In Account Recover Option -> Click on recovery email and enter your password -> then NEXT
   
5. Click on Add Recovery email And enter your second email id and click on Done

4. Remove Unwanted or Malicious App

Friends, you will often see when you run an app or play a game, you get the option to continue and login to a Gmail account, then you login there with your Gmail account.By doing this, you allow that application to access your Gmail data. So in such a case the third party app gets permission and they are logged in with your Gmail account. And then in some time you also start sending spam links, which increases the chances of your account details being leaked.

 

So to avoid these spam links, you can remove malicious applications from your phone or clear the cache memory in your phone or computer.