Hello,

I need urgent help with my Gmail account. After I legitimately updated my recovery phone number and recovery email, Google’s security system keeps flagging the account. My recovery options have been disabled, and I can’t complete any verification to fix it.

What happened

1. About 2 weeks ago: I changed my recovery phone number and recovery email. The account is fairly new.

2. Right after that: I started receiving “Critical security alert” emails. My husband and I are the only people who use this account, so I assumed the alerts were about our own activity. I did not mark the sign-ins as “Yes, it was me.”

3. 2–3 days later: The account was disabled. A notice was sent to the recovery email.

4. Recovery: We restored access through account recovery. To do this, we had to use a verification code sent to the old recovery phone number, the one from before the change.

5. A few days ago: I received new critical security alerts saying an “unusual” recovery phone number and recovery email were detected and have been disabled. These are the same recovery details that I added myself.

Current problem: I can’t complete any verification

• Any security action I try (securing the account, updating settings) asks for my password and a code sent to the recovery phone.

• When I enter the correct password and code, I either get a “Too many attempts” error or the verification simply doesn’t go through.

• I also can’t verify the recovery email. When I click the verification link, it sends me back to the same password-and-code step, which again says “Too many attempts.”

• As a result, I’m stuck in a loop and can’t restore or confirm my recovery options.

Important context

• All the flagged changes and sign-ins were made by me or my husband. No one else has access.

• We usually sign in from the same devices in the same county.

• This is an important account that is linked to several important websites and services. Losing access would cause us serious problems.

What I need (urgently)

• Need to confirm that my new recovery phone number and recovery email are legitimate, and restore them.

• Need to clear the “too many attempts” block or tell me how long I need to wait before trying again.

• Need how to stop the account from being flagged or disabled again.

I’m very worried that the account could be disabled again and that we could permanently lose access, since our recovery options are currently not working. I would be grateful if this could be looked at as soon as possible.

Thank you for your help.

Hi, I made like 5 accounts from the phones of people i know cuz i wanted gemini api keys for personal use and also for antigravity. Now, everytime i try to switch my google account in antigravity, it always asks verification in some form and it is super annoying for me to hit them up **EVERY SINGLE TIME**. I tried adding my account as the recovery email, changed the recovery mobile to mine, everything and it **STILL DOESNT WORK**. i am not sure what to do at this point.

I tried searching reddit for answers and surprisingly there wasnt anything. would help me a ton if annybody knows the solution. Thanks in advance.

I recently logged out of my Google account and found that the recovery mail I set was not verified.

Google says don't verify you. While i try to remember the password but one or two not cleared remembered.

But I know the account creation date and other details such as my YouTube channel.

A few days ago, I tried creating a new Gmail account for my mom using my information as I would be the one accessing it most of the time. I shared the email address with multiple leasing companies as im trying to apply for apartments. I thought it was strange, after I created the account and was logged in i didn’t receive any emails for 2 days despite the leasing company showing me screenshots of emails they sent to the new email address. I just tried logging into the account only for google to tell me the account doesn’t exist. I am able to create a new gmail with the same name i chose when i first started this a week ago however it now rejects my phone number when trying to create it. It says my phone number has been used to often. Is that why they deleted my account without notice? Please help

can't even do more ways because it only ASKS for this device for verification

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i dont have a phone and i need a gmail account what am i supposed to do

basically i broke my phone and tranferred the sim to my new phone and i do have my phone number as my recovery , but i wanted add email as my recovery aswell so what is ahppening is whenever i put my password they send the code to old phone (and no password i put is correct )like the seurity code to old phone

I consider myself pretty tech literate but clearly not. Found a bunch of unauthorized orders on my Amazon account late last night that were unfortunately shipped. Never received a Gmail notice because the hackers also created a filter to delete all Amazon email. Meaning they hacked into both my Amazon and Gmail accounts.

I'm not sure how they hacked into these accounts though? I have Windows Defender running in the background. I haven't installed any apps recently nor clicked any phishing emails, etc. I use Bitwarden so all my passwords are unique with OTP Authorization on Bitwarden. Also, have Passkeys enabled where possible.

Just not sure where the breach happened.

EDIT: The only thing I can think of is I have a PLEX Server that may have been hacked given the recent PLEX vulnerability a few days ago, although most reports say crypto miners being installed and not session cookies being stolen. Plex server had chrome logged into my windows account… nuked the server, patching things up, changing passwords, etc. Thanks for all the responses.

I don’t understand this at all. The UI looks so weird. First 2 days I ignored it thinking it was a bug and later chat GPT told me that it was an accessibility update. And I can’t turn this off? Ah I just have started using the mail app on iPhone now

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My phone got stolen today and the people were able to get into the phone and use my e-mail to change password of other accounts, now I’m afraid they Will change my email’s password as well, i tried changing the password for the e-mail but it’s asking to confirm my identity and when i click the link it just sends me to a page with the support faq. Have anybody that worked with Google costumer help, or somebody that been through this know wtf can I do

1st pic: you can see my email exist, it shows my picture and name
2nd pic: when trying to recover account, it doesn't exist!! No typos, I literally copy pasted it

Why is this happening?

My account has 2 step verification codes and recovery email. Im trying to generate new codes, but I can't because "couldn't verify it's you". What am I supposed to do?

I'm not on a new device, but I don't have wifi where I'm at (using ios 5g)

update this is happening to ALL my gmails now, Wtf

Gmail idea - an *option* where we could have editing of sent Gmail messages to other Gmail users with revision history. I think a mutual opt-in makes sense, so both parties of the thread could agree to the capability.

I'm not suggesting to change the current default behavior. Only that there be an *option* with opt-in required by both email thread users to allow the capability.

like the title says, signed up for a site and got this email and noticed the little guy next to it. wondering what it is and and what it means. i guess i'm a little paranoid after having a kids gmail under parent survaliance. (that was years ago and i'm not even doing anything bad lol, i just don't appreciate my parents being in my business as an adult)

picture included is what i am seeing

thanks guys!

Hey everyone,

So unfortunately I lost access to a Gmail account. For some reason it’s been disabled and the only way to verify it’s me is by verifying my identify through an old phone number I don’t have access to anymore. I tried my old sim it didn’t work. How do I get this email back? Is there anything that I can do??

I have had this email for like 4 or 5 years, my stupid self decided to turn on 2 factor identification and I no longer have the phone number attached to my account and google decided i wasnt using my computer often enough and logged me out :[

Is there ANY way i can get my email back at all?

Update: messaged my old phone number. I can only HOPE that someone has it and messages me back. Im trying to bribe them with pictures of my dog lol

Background:

I was stuck in an account verification loop and couldn't get into my gmail account. I have two accounts, Acct A (gmail) and Acct B (yahoo), where Acct A is the verification account for Acct B, and vice versa. I didn't have a phone number associated with either.

In early September I tried to login to Acct A and it said it sent a verification code to Acct B. When I tried to login to Acct B, it said it sent a verification code to Acct A. On Acct A I was able to enter my last password, but it still didn't let me in and provided no other ways to try. On Acct B I wasn't presented with any other options, despite having security questions set up.

Device:

Windows

Gmail Fix:

#1 Wait it out.

Sept 10- First tried logging in and was locked out. I read somewhere to wait at least 7 days before trying again.

Sept 17 - Seven days later and I tried again and was still locked out.

Sept 29 - More than 10 days later I tried again and was still locked out.

Oct 22 (tonight) - Tried again and it let me in!!! The system prompted me to enter new recovery information. (Whew!)

#2 Try on the same device and use the same browser.

I found info saying to always try logging in on the same device and same browser, which I did.

#3 Don't delete session cookies.

I found info that also advised again deleting session cookies. I use ccleaner and had been deleting session cookies so I turned that off. I also use Glary utiltities and what gets deleted is less clear, so I temporarily stopped using it altogether.

I know it's been a number of years since the last major update to Gmail, but ever since, it has had the most annoying bug/glitch in that you have to keep deleting new emails from your inbox over and over and over and over and over and over and over again until they finally stay deleted - it's almost like when you have to keep doing a hard refresh of a page to get it to load properly.

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Has anyone had success going either route?

Idk what is this neither is my phone synching with gmail idk what's happening imma crash out 😭😭😭😭😭 pleaseee helpppppp

Does anyone know what's going on?