Wondering how to remove the access of your Google Account from the third-party apps? If yes, then you have landed on the right place.
Whenever you download and install an app on your smartphone, it grants access to your Google Account. These third-party apps can use your Google account and all the information whenever they want. Even when you uninstall the app, it still has access to your Google account. Hence, if you want to keep your Google account safe and secure, then you must revoke the access of your Google account from these third-party applications.
In this article, you are about to learn how to revoke the Google account access from the third-party apps. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get started.
How to Remove Google Account Access from Third-Party Apps
We have divided the full process into several steps to make it easy for you to understand the entire process. Here’s how to pull back your account access from the third-party apps on your iOS and Android device.
- Go to your browser and then navigate to the “myaccount.google.com” URL into your browser. There you can access your Google account and also control the permissions for other third-party apps.
- Now tap on the “Security” option located in the left navigation menu. There you will access details of two-step verification, signed-in devices, and recovery options. There you will find several options that can help you to protect your account.
- Now go to the “Manage third-party apps” link. This option is located near the bottom of the webpage.
- Now, look out for the app permissions carefully. There you can view various kinds of access to your account, such as access to the third-party apps, Google apps, and sign in with Google. Every app needs a different level of access to your account information like name, email, your physical address, profile image, or your Google drive.
- If you find there anything or any app which you never used or installed, then you should revoke the app permission from it.
- To do that, click on the app, which looks suspicious and then find its permissions. If you want to take away the permissions of your Google account for such app then immediately change the password for your account and remove the app from your device.
- The second thing to make sure for the security purpose is to remove the access of such app from your account completely. To do that, click on the suspicions app for which you want to remove the access and then select the “Remove Access” option.
- Now you will be asked to confirm your decision, and you should press the OK button to remove the access of your account.
If you have mistakenly removed the access of an app, then you shouldn’t worry about it. The app will grant the permissions to your Google account later when you will run it in the future.
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Mike Smith is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.