How to backup / download your emails from Google mail account

Google mail is a well known free email released on the 4th of January, 2014 by google service. A lot of users can access Google mail on the web by using third party programs. Unfortunately, many users dump their Gmail account for many reasons like – forgetting their password, their account being hacked, finding it difficult to get back their account which can actually be avoided by doing a Google back up. Interestingly, you can back up anything on your mail account.

There are different ways to backup your emails. You can either use the Google tools or use a third party solution.

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How to backup/download your emails from Google mail account

STEP (1)

Login to your Gmail account. On the left side of the home page, click the three (3) short straight lines and locate the settings, then you’ll see some options: General settings, the mail account logged in, the add account. Click on the mail you want to back up.

STEP (2)

Locate the “Mange your Google Account” and click on it. It is usually at the top. Google will automatically take you to Google Account full settings.

STEP (3)

Click on the Data and personalisation, scroll down and locate the Download your data.

Goggle will automatically take you to Google takeaway, where you’ll be allowed to select what to download (back up). Select what you need to back up and download from your mail to your phone or computer.

STEP (4)

Select how you want to download/save your emails and other stuffs in your google account to your phone or computer or click the box that says all. You can choose .zip file or .tgz file, you can also choose where you want google to send your download link to , either to drive, dropbox, onedrive or via email. Email is preferable since you can just go to your mail and tap on the link then download the zip file to your phone or computer.