To turn that on, click your initial in the circle in the top right-hand corner and then click Manage your Google Account. Turn on two-factor authenticationĪlthough you've chosen a strong password, your email account should always have the extra protection of two-factor authentication. To access more detailed settings, click See all settings at the top of the Quick settings pane. You can experiment with those until you find the way you prefer your inbox. Your next step is to customise your preferences: click on the cogwheel icon in the top right-hand corner and you'll see some options appear on the right of the screen. The downside of turning on those features, however, is that it offers Google much more information about you, and you might prefer not to share that data. On the next screen you'll be asked if you want to turn on Personalise other Google products - again, these features are useful so you might want to turn them on and see how you get on with them. You'll be asked if you want to turn on smart features - we suggest you turn those on as they're useful, and you can always turn them off if you don't like them. Once you've done that, you'll be taken to your new inbox. Once you've worked through those steps, you'll be asked to agree to Google's Privacy and Terms. The latter is longer, but we recommend clicking that so that you can choose how much data you want to share with Google.
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On the next screen, you'll be offered the choice of Express personalisation or Manual personalisation. You'll be asked if you want to add your phone number for additional services, such as receiving video calls and messages, and making ads more relevant, but you can swerve that by clicking the Skip at the bottom left of that screen. Click the blue Verify button, and on the next screen you'll be asked to fill in an email address that can be used as a backup if you lose access to the address you're creating now - this is optional, but it's a good idea if you have access to another email - and your date of birth and gender.
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You'll be sent a code by SMS to your mobile phone that you fill in on the next screen. On the next screen, fill in your mobile phone number. To create a new Gmail account, go to /gmail and click the blue Create an account button at the top right of the page, and fill in your first name and surname, and then your preferred username, and then create a secure password. Prefer to speak to one of our friendly Which? tech advisers to guide you through creating an email address? Our friendly team are on hand to help you with one-to-one support.
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It’s easy and free to set up a new email address with Gmail, which is a webmail account that lives in the cloud and which you can access from any computer, tablet or smartphone by logging into your account securely. These days most people have at least one email address, but yours might be an old one with an ISP that you want to move to a more modern service, or perhaps because you're moving internet providers and you're losing access to that old account. Taking the plunge and moving away from your old ISP email? Follow our step-by-step guide to getting started with Gmail
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