In today’s scenario any form you fill, either for your admission, a feedback form, a bank account form etc. they request you to mention your email-id. There are many websites that allow you to create your email-id. But, the most popular or one of the best is Gmail. For generating your email-id in Gmail you must have a Gmail account.
What is Gmail?
Gmail is a Google mail which offers free email service to its user. Gmail allows you to send and receive an email over the web. Gmail provides you with 15 gigabytes storage on the server which is far more than enough for storing your mails.
You can also send attachments along with the message which together can be of 25 megabytes. Google filter out all the spam emails into the trash. So, you need not even open them. So, moving to our main topic let us discuss the steps to create a Gmail account.
Steps to Create Account in Gmail:
Step 1: Open your web browser and most probably you will land on Google.com as most of us set Google as our home page or sometimes the browser does it by default. At the rightmost corner, you will find a hyperlink for Gmail. Click on Gmail.
Well, you can directly visit gmail.com.
Step 2: A Sign-in page will pop out which will demand your email or phone. As we have to create an account, skipping the above demands click on Create account which will pop up two options, “For myself” & “To manage my business”. As in this section, we are discussing the regular account, click on For myself.
Step 3: Here, first fill your first name, Last name and then fill Username carefully. If the username filled by you is already taken by someone it will display a message “That username is taken. Try another” and also display some of the available options you can choose for your username.
Lastly, fill your password and confirm it once more. Remember it should be of 8 or more characters and it can be a mix of letters, numbers and symbol.
After filling all the details click Next.
Step 4: Now, for security purpose, Google makes it sure that you are justified individual. And for this, it demands you for your phone number where it would send a 6-digit verification code. Fill your phone number and click Next.
Step 5: Immediately within few seconds you will receive a 6-digit verification code on your register mobile number.
Put that verification code in the text box and click Verify.
Step 6: A welcome page is opened which requests you for your phone number, a recovery email address which will be used in case you don’t recall your password. Lastly, it asks you for your date of birth and gender. After filling all the information click Next.
Step 7: Google Privacy and Terms are displayed on your screen. Click the down arrow button to read it all.
At the end of privacy and terms, you have to agree to their terms to create an account. So, click I agree.
Step 8: A welcome message from google will pop up. You have to simply click on Next.
Step 9: Here, it asks you to Choose a view. Three options are available Default, Comfortable and Compact. As you will click on views one by one it will reflect its appearance in the background. Choose one of your kind and click OK.
Step 10: At last your account has been created and in the inbox, you will find a welcome mail from Google.
So, this is all about how one can create an account in Gmail. Hope the content is useful.Thank you, keep reading.
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