Use Gmail's "Recovery Contacts" feature to regain access to your Google account during an emergency. All you need to do is reach out to a trusted contact.

You can turn to trusted contacts to recover your Google account. You can also sign in to a new phone just by using your number. Google Messages will alert you to spam and keep your texts private.

Google is announcing new privacy and recovery tools to combat spam across multiple products related to Android, including suspicious link detection in messages, sign-in with phone number, and recovery ...

Google is expanding its security options with a social component. Trusted contacts can now assist with account recovery ...

Google is rolling out two new ways to recover your account after you lose access. “Recovery Contacts” lets you pick trusted friends and family to verify your identity. Users will soon be able to use ...

Google Contacts is easily the most convenient way to store your contacts online and sync them across all your devices. But despite being incredibly reliable and including most of the essential contact ...

Google appears to be making a change to the Contacts app. When saving a contact, you’ll no longer have the ability to choose which Google account or device it is saved to. You can still use “move to ...

A small change to Google Contacts for Android makes explicit the current backup and sync status, while tweaking the account menu. At the top of the Organize tab, you’ll find a new card noting how many ...