How to Recover Gmail Account

Question

I have forgotten the password for my important gmail account, the center of my digital life, after switching my phone. I have my phone number registered with my gmail account, apparently it is not enough. After asking for a verification code sent to my phone number, Google is asking for a verification code sent to this unaccessible gmail inbox. I am stuck here. I don't even remember how many services using this gmail as recovery email address or for verification. I am switching to a pure iCloud solution to go forward, but I still want to recover my gmail account and update all online services registered with this email. I have researched online, and found no solution. BTW, I also got a new laptop and returned the old one :/ which probably made things worse. Please help me if you have any tips. Thank you.

beagle3 · Accepted Answer

I have a similar situation: I have registered for a google account (not an email account, mind you - just a google account) because I needed to use an online calendar for a month. That was 13 years ago, with a different computer, different city, different ISP, different country, different everything.
I am in control of the same email. I try to log in to that google account, I get an email with an OTP, I put it in, and ... google is unhappy because having control of the email is not enough, I need to have a similar computer/ip to 13 years ago.
All I want to do is shut down this google account, to make sure nothing about it happens that I am unaware of. If I it didn't exist, surely control of the email would be enough to create it in the first place...
I've been trying to recover that account approx. once a month for the last couple of years (for the purpose of deleting it. ...), to no avail.

hanafudafan · Answer

Give up, you can't. It's over. Switch and never use Google anything again.

refurb · Answer

Any chance you can access Gmail from the same IP address? Or at least same city (as located by IP?).I got locked out because of an old phone number I no longer had access to. Waited until I went back to my old home town. Tried again and there was no request for the phone number. Got in and updated everything.

dontbenebby · Answer

I&rsquo;ve got the opposite issue - I have the password but lost the totp and no longer control the phone number attached

mkbkn · Answer

If you're trying to login on broadband/WiFi, try again with your mobile data.