| Every day Google works hard to keep you and your private information safe and secure by preventing unauthorized access to your Google Account with our built-in security protections. And keeping you safe means having strong privacy practices across our products that minimize how long we store your personal files and any data associated with them. We want to protect your private information and prevent any unauthorized access to your account even if you're no longer using our services. Therefore, we are updating the inactivity period for a Google Account to two years across all our products and services. This change starts rolling out today and will apply to any Google Account that's been inactive, meaning it has not been signed into or used within a two-year period. An inactive account and any content in it will be eligible for deletion from December 1, 2023. What this means for you: - These changes do not impact you unless you have been inactive in your Google Account for two years or have not used your account to sign in to any Google service for over two years.
- While the changes go into effect today, the earliest we would enforce any account deletion would be December 2023.
- If your account is considered inactive, we will send several reminder emails to both you and your recovery emails (if any have been provided) before we take any action or delete any account content. These reminder emails will go out at least 8 months before any action is taken on your account.
- After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account.
How to keep your account active? The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign in to the account at least once every two years. If you have signed in to your Google Account recently in the past two years, your account is considered active and will not be deleted. Other ways to keep your account active include: - Reading or sending an email
- Using Google Drive
- Watching a YouTube video
- Sharing a photo
- Downloading an app
- Using Google Search
- Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service
There are some exceptions to this policy. Examples include: a Google Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments; an account that has a gift card with a monetary balance; or an account that has a published application, for example, one that hosts an app on the Google Play store. Other exceptions to this policy are available here. Google also offers tools to help manage your Google Account and provide options to back up your data, including the ability to download your data using Google Takeout, and allowing you to plan for what happens to your data if you're inactive for a specific period of time with the Inactive Account Manager. Our priority is to make it as easy as possible for you to keep your account active, if you want to, and we'll ensure you have adequate notice before any account is impacted by this change. So before an account is deleted, Google will send email notifications to the Google Account and its recovery email (if one has been provided). You should verify that your recovery email is up to date. Learn more Thank you,
The Google Account team | 
Apple is offering the much sought after night mode feature on iPhone 11. Android smartphones like Google Pixel and OnePlus 7 Pro already offer night mode. Apple has already demoed the night mode during its launch events and now we have a couple of real-time pictures that show the prowess of night mode. 
Apple announced a new way for users to sign-in to their favorite apps earlier this year. The Sign-in with Apple boasts of superlative security features. Apple received flak from the developer’s community when they make it mandatory for all apps to offer the new Sign-in method. However, the company has imposed a deadline of 2020 for existing apps while new apps need to implement the changes before going live on the App Store. 
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The iPhone 11 Pro series packs a major upgrade over the iPhone XS. Apple has retained the same design language as the iPhone XS but upgraded almost everything else about it. The handset is a major upgrade in almost every aspect over its predecessor. 
Slack has finally joined the Dark Side! The collaborative tool had recently released an update that made the app faster and better in many ways. Now Slack has gained yet another update that adds Dark Mode. In the recent past, all mobile operating systems and apps have been adding Dark Mode. 
The iPhone 11 Pro design is disturbing people with ‘trypophobia.’ What’s that? As Wikipedia explains, it is an “aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, or bumps.” Essentially, a bunch of irregular patterns or holes can make some people uncomfortable just by looking at it. 
The iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max follow the same design language as the iPhone XS series. However, the use of frosted glass at the back, the matte finish, and the new color options mean the iPhone 11 Pro looks noticeably different from the iPhone XS. So if you are confused as to which color of the iPhone 11 Pro you should buy, follow this guide. 
After the massive success of the iPhone XR last year, Apple is out with the iPhone 11 this time around. The phone builds on the iPhone XR and improves in all the key areas: performance, camera, battery life. Like last year, Apple is offering the iPhone 11 in three different storage capacities. If you are confused as to which storage variant you should pick up, follow this guide. 
For 2019, Apple announced its ‘Pro’ iPhones: the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. While these phones succeed the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, they carry the ‘pro’ brand for all the pro features they pack. And despite that, Apple ships these pro iPhones with 64GB of base storage. If you are looking to buy the iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max and are confused as to which storage variant you should buy, read this guide. 
The new iPhone 11 comes in six different colors. That’s a lot of choices! If you’ve decided to buy a new iPhone 11 and you’ve got the storage capacity nailed down, the next question is the color. How do you choose between 6 awesome options? Read on to find out. 
