How to Remove Google Account from Android!

When you are going to use an Android phone, you will have to add your Google Account to it. Because unless adding a Google account you won't be able to download Apps from the Google Play Store. But when you will add your Google Account to the Android phone, all the information like contacts, calendar, emails, app lists associates with that account will automatically syncs with your device. So, before selling or gifting your phone, you should remove your Google account fro that phone to ensure the security of your Google account. And by going through this post you will learn to remove Google account from Android Phone.


You can remove Google account from an Android phone by resetting it. But if you want to remove the Google account from the Android device, without loosing the apps installed in it, then resetting the phone can't be the correct option to choose. In this case you would remove the Google account from the device. As a result everything associated with that account, including email, contacts, and settings, will also be deleted.

Note: All the options used in this post may not be the same in all version of Android. If your device is running 4.4 or lower, the Menu icon looks like this . If your device is running 4.3 or lower, the Settings icon looks like this .


Remove a Google Account from Android:
  • First Open the Settings menu  on your device.
  • Then touch on the Account & Sync option.
  • Here you will get the list of accounts that added on this device.
  • Then from the account list Touch the Google account.
  • Then touch the Option Menu of your phone and Remove Account option will appear.
  • Now touch the Remove account option.
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That's it, the Google account will be removed from the android device. Now you can sell, gift anything you want to do with your Android phone without any hesitation.


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