You start with Gmail and you don’t know how to access your account? Nothing could be simpler! On a computer and on mobile, you only need your address and password.
Like all modern electronic messaging, Gmail is accessible in several ways, both on a computer and on phone or on tablet. All you need, apart from an internet connection is your Gmail address and associated password, essential to identify you with the Google service. Then just use a web browser or the mobile application to access your account to consult and manage your messages.
Whatever the operating system used on your computer (Windows, MacOS or Linux), you can connect to your Gmail account using a simple web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, Safari, Brave, Vivaldi, etc.).
- With your usual web browser, go to the site Gmail.com.
- If you arrive first on the presentation site, click on the link Connection At the top right of the page to access the connection page.
- On the connection page, first enter your account identifier (email address or phone number if you saved it when creating your account), then click on Following.
- Then enter your password and click again on Following.
- You are then immediately connected to the Gmail interface and you can consult, write and manage messages.
When you no longer use Gmail, you can just close your tab in your web browser: you will not need to identify yourself again if you return to messaging during the same session, that is to say if you do not leave your browser. On the other hand, it can be useful, even essential, to really disconnect from your account – even if it means identifying you again, including during the same session -, especially if you use a computer that does not belong to you, in office, with friends or in a web bar, for example.
- In the Gmail interface, click on theavatar of your Google account, in the upper right corner of the window.
- In the context menu of account options, click the button Disconnection.
- You will be disconnected from Gmail, but your account will always appear. To disconnect it completely, click on Delete an account. Do not panic: this will not delete your Gmail account, but will erase it from the browser until your next connection.
- On the page Delete an accountclick on the account to be disconnected.
- In the superimpressing warning window, click on Yes, delete.
- After the click, you will be redirected to the connection screen to Gmail, indicating that you are completely disconnected from messaging.
You can fully manage your Gmail messaging with the eponymous mobile app, available for free on Android and iOS, with a phone or tablet. On Android, the Gmail application uses the Google account address associated with your device by default – the one that also serves you to access the Google Play Store. But you can perfectly use another Gmail address and manage several accounts. On iPhone or iPad, the situation is slightly different, the Gmail application is not native to the iOS system. However, you can of course download the application and use it to connect to one or more Gmail accounts, such as on Android.
On Android
Download the Gmail app for Android
On iOS
- Download and install the Gmail app if it is not already on your device.
Download the Gmail app for iOS
- If you don’t already have a Gmail account, open it and press the button Connection on the home screen.
- If you already have a Gmail account, open the application, press Your avatar account at the top right of the screen, then on Add an account in the mini-window.
- In both cases, the procedure is thereafter identical.
- Choose Google as a type of account to be added.
- In the connection window that is displayed, enter your Google account identifier and press Following.
- In the next page, enter your password and press Following.
- You then access the Gmail reception box.
Even if it is not essential insofar as you keep your mobile in principle with you, you can log out of your Gmail account when you do not use messaging.
- In the Gmail application, press Your avatar At the top right of the screen.
- In the mini-window of account options, press Manage accounts on this device.
- The page Manage accounts Then presents the application -related account (s).
- Uncheck the switch to the right of the account so that it is no longer displayed in the application.
- Press Delete To completely disconnect your account. Rest assured, your account will not be deleted: it will simply be disconnected from the application. You can access it – and find everything! – By connecting manually, with your username and password.
- Press DELETE in the confirmation mini-feature.
If you do not want to use the Gmail mobile application, for example if you use a tablet or a phone that does not belong to us, you can perfectly use Google messaging with a mobile web browser. You will then access a special inteface, designed for mobile use.
- With your web browser, go to the site Gmail.com.
- If you arrive on the presentation site first, press Connection At the top right of the screen.
- Enter your account identifier in the first connection screen and press Following.
- Enter your password, then press again Following.
As on a computer, you can log out of your Gmail account in your mobile browser.
- In the interface of the Gmail mobile site, open the menu by pressing theicon with the three side bars top left of the screen.
- In the menu screen, Press your email address At the top of the screen.
- Then press the button Disconnection (all accounts) in the mini-window.
- As for the web version (see above), press Delete an account If you want to log out completely. Your account information will simply be deleted from the browser, but your Gmail account will obviously not be deleted.
- On the page Delete an accountpress Your email address.
- In the under-fencing mini-window, click on Yes, delete.
