You may have logged into your Gmail account from a friend’s computer or another unfamiliar location and forgotten to log out. This could happen several times in different places. It is also possible that you misplaced your phone and your Gmail account is still active on that device. Furthermore, your Gmail account contains a lot of personal information that must be safeguarded by logging out of all devices.
let’s get started. ourtechroom will demonstrate how to log out or log out of your gmail account from all devices.
There are several ways to accomplish this. Let’s see them one by one.
method 1: by using the gmail function “where you log in“
using computer:
The steps are as follows:
1 open your gmail account from where you want to delete all logged in sessions.
2 clicks on your photo located in the upper right corner.
3 Click “manage your google account“.
4 under the left panel, click “security“.
5 scroll down, then under the your devices section, you will find all the assets connected to your google account. click “manage devices” under your devices
6 will fetch all devices that have used gmail accounts.
The first is your current login devices. in my case, it’s a windows laptop. the other 4 devices are other unknown devices. you will see other information such as time and date as well. you can log out of those devices one by one.
7 Click on any panel except the first one. then click the “logout” button.
here, you can clearly see that this gmail account is the first login on this unknown device on Feb 22nd. by clicking on the ip address you will get the exact location where this gmail account was logged in.
8 then click “close“
9. then click “ok“
that’s it.
It can also get your few active gmail login histories, so you can know where your gmail is accessed from so you can change it later.
1 open your gmail home screen.
2 scroll to the bottom and click on details.
3 pop-up windows will appear. there you will get all devices, your using location, ip address, date/time, device types (browser, mobile, pop3 etc) where your gmail is connected. it only provides some login histories.
When you click show details, system details will be displayed.
4 clicks security check
Note that this will work perfectly for pc, mac and linux because here we are using web gmail and it is identical on all computers.
method 2: log out of gmail on all devices by changing password
If you notice strange login attempts to your gmail account, you should reset your password. will log you out of all currently connected devices. This will require all devices to enter a new password before using Gmail with the same Gmail account. Furthermore, if a hacker is already logged in and travels to any other gmail page or performs any activity on gmail, he will be unauthorized and forced to provide a new password. As a result, this is one of the easiest and most secure methods to log out of gmail from all devices.
steps:
1 logged in to your gmail account.
2 click your profile icon in the top right corner.
3 click on “manage your account“
4 in the left pane, click “security“
5 clicks on the password
6 enter your current password and click next
7 on the next screen may ask you to enter a new password and confirm the password.
Use a strong password, which helps keep your gmail content and files safe and prevents anyone from accessing your account.
8 click the change password
button
that’s it.
thank god you’re safe now 🙂
method 3: use a smartphone to sign out of gmail on all devices
Before you delete an account on your smartphone, all the google apps that you have signed with gmail will be closed automatically, such as google maps, youtube, calendar, drive, google assistant, etc.
Many people are concerned and ask, “does this delete the account?” and the answer is a resounding no. In addition, your search history, browsing history, documents, images, etc. will not be destroyed. you can easily get them back if you login to your computer with the same gmail account. Personally, I prefer this if I’m not going to wipe personal information off the device before selling it to someone else so they can’t access my personal information.
Please note: This procedure is similar to what you have done on your computer. here for demo i am using android phone. something similar will also apply for ios
1. open gmail apps.
2. then click profile picture located in the upper right corner.
3. manage account
4. go to the security tab.
5. under security, select “manage device“. this will give you a list of the google accounts logged in on your smartphone.
6. identify the devices, then click the 3 dots and click “sign out” on the pop-up window if you only want to remove the account from the device but allow third-party apps to access a user account. google on your device. click ok.
video link: click here
otherwise follow different approaches, after step 5 ie. click the 3 dots, click don’t recognize this device? then it asks you to change the password. just change it that’s all. now this gmail account will be automatically closed on all devices where this gmail has previously logged in.
using smartphone ios to login to gmail from all devices
The steps are as follows:
1 Start the gmail app on your apple iphone or ipad.
2 tap your profile picture.
3 tap manage accounts on this device.
4 touch remove from this device.
Method 4: Sign out of all devices by enabling two-factor authentication and remove all trusted devices.
In general, I suggest that you enable two-factor authentication first, and then remove all trusted devices.
some of the best practices you can apply before gmail in unknown places
- login to gmail only in private mode like google chrome incognito mode
- enable two-factor authentication.
- logout all gmail sessions gmail after you’ve done your work.
- use the auto logout browser extension.
conclusion:
if you logged in on multiple devices and forgot to log out from them, then without wasting time, just log out from all devices with the steps mentioned above.