If you decide to lend someone a hand and create a gmail account for others, you can even do it for someone who lives somewhere else. It’s pretty easy to find tutorials on how to create a new gmail account for yourself, but you might get a little frustrated trying to create one for someone else. The reason is that your browser “remembers” your account, so you will end up in your own gmail account instead of going to the page where you can create a gmail account for someone else.
well, not anymore :-)in order to create a new gmail account for a friend (or a child or a relative or…), you have to look at your google account icon in the upper right corner of your screen for clues. from there you’ll be on your way sooner than you think. So let’s dive in!
create a gmail account for others with ease
To create a gmail account for others, start by going to https://mail.google.com (you can click the link). Depending on your specific situation, you may see several different things now.
if what you see looks like the image below, great. you can skip the following steps and continue with “add another account”.
In a second scenario, what you see might look more like this image below. Your browser has remembered your last gmail session and taken you directly to your inbox. We’ll go from there in a minute.
Third scenario: You see something like this image below, in which case proceed by clicking the confirm button, which will also take you to your gmail inbox (and the same situation as scenario 2).
Now that you’re looking at your existing gmail inbox, you want to get to the point where you can create a gmail account for others. To do this, click on the google account icon in the upper right corner of your screen and then click on “add another account”.
By now you should be looking at a screen that looks like the one in scenario 1 above (where you had to choose an account):
add another account
To create a gmail account for others, click the “use another account” link.
this will take you to the next screen where google will ask you to enter your email or phone to sign in to an existing gmail account. you shouldn’t do this. instead, click the “create account” link.
now you will have to choose between “for me” and “to manage my business”.
Although we are discussing here how to create a gmail account for others, “for myself” is the option here.
enter the first name, last name and choose a gmail username for the person you are creating the gmail address for and use 8 or more characters with a combination of letters, numbers & symbols for the password. Be especially careful to note down the password as you are creating a gmail account for someone else so you will need to give that person the correct password for the new gmail account. then click next.
In the next step, Google will want to know a phone number so it can send a text message with a 6-digit verification code. You can use the phone number of the person you are creating the gmail account for or your own phone number. you can create multiple gmail accounts with one phone number. if you’re using the other person’s phone number, make sure you can immediately send them the 6-digit verification code, as you’ll need it to continue.
When you click next, google will send the verification code to the phone number and on the next screen you will need to type this verification code and click verify:
this is so google can send you a google account recovery code in case you forget your password.
On the next screen, fill in the day of birth and the optional recovery email address and gender of the person you are creating the gmail account for. This is because some of Google’s services have age requirements and the recovery email address is so they can help you get back in if you’ve forgotten your password.
(if you want to learn more about this, you can also read my article on how to add a recovery email address to a google account).
then you can set a phone number for more options. leave this out for now (you can add it later if needed).
on the next screen, scroll down to the bottom of the privacy and terms…
… mark the 2 checkboxes to agree and click the create account button.
then click the confirm button to finish creating the gmail account (or click the “more options” link if you want to see more options).
on the gmail account welcome screen, click next…
… and select the default view for now to continue.
You will now land in the inbox of the new gmail account you just created for someone else.
what now?
The steps above describe how to create a gmail account for others, but now of course you need to tell the other person how they can start using your new gmail account.
To sign in to the new gmail account, the person you created the account for should go to
https://mail.google.com
and sign in with the new gmail account and password you created when setting up the account.
As mentioned in the introduction, this can of course be on another computer or even another location. (If you want to switch between multiple gmail accounts on the same computer, please see my article on how to log in with a different gmail account.) Once the person you created the gmail account for is up and running with the account, consider logging out of the account to log back in with your own account. To sign out of the account you just created, click the google account icon in the top right corner of your screen and select sign out .
which concludes how you can create a gmail account for others. I hope this article has been useful. if it was, please click the like button below or leave a short comment, thanks!