Cancel Google Account

Canceling your Google account and the Google services you use can be a little difficult at times.

Google maintains a help page that explains the process. The Google user needs to log into the account first, click on Settings > Google Account Settings afterwards and then on the Edit link next to My Products.

This leads to a new page with the option to cancel the Google account completely by clicking on “Close account and delete all services and info associated with it”.

But canceling the complete account is sometimes not the user’s intention. Some users want to cancel a specific Google service, like Gmail or Google Picasa instead.

The steps outlined above to cancel the Google account can also be used to cancel Google services that the user has signed up for.

Both solutions require that the Google user is able to log into the Google account. Users who have troubles doing that can request a password reset if the password that they enter is not accepted in the login.