Add or remove an account on Android

To admission your e-mail, contacts, and calendar, and to get apps from the Google Play Store, yous tin can add accounts to your telephone. When you add a Google account, info associated with that business relationship automatically syncs with your phone.

When yous remove an account, everything associated with that business relationship is besides deleted from your phone. This includes email, contacts, and settings.

Add together a Google or other account to your phone

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Accounts . If you don't run into "Accounts," tap Users & accounts.
  3. At the lesser, tap Add account.
  4. Tap the blazon of account you want to add together.
    • To add your Google Account, tap Google. When you sign in with a Google Account, the email, contacts, agenda events, and other information associated with that account automatically sync with your phone.
    • To add a unlike personal account, tap Personal (IMAP) or Personal (POP3). You'd mostly choose these if you use an email program similar Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail service.Acquire how to use IMAP or POP3 with Gmail.
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions.
  6. If you're calculation accounts, you lot may need to enter your phone'south pattern, PIN, or password for security.

Tip:If you'd like to lend your phone to a friend, you tin learn how to create a split user or temporary guest, instead of adding an account.

Remove a Google or other business relationship from your telephone

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Accounts.If you don't encounter "Accounts," tap Users & accounts.
  3. Tap the business relationship you lot want to removeAnd thenRemove account.
  4. If this is the only Google Account on the phone, y'all'll need to enter your telephone's pattern, PIN, or password for security.

Related resources

  • Create a Google Account
  • Utilise or delete guests
  • Add together, switch, or delete users
  • Sync your apps with your Google Account

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