Learn how Cross-Account Protection can help keep your account safe

Our security technology helps catch suspicious activity to better protect your Google Account. With Cross-Account Protection, we can share suspicious activity with the apps you use with your Google Account. That way, apps created by developers other than Google can use Google’s suspicious event detection to help keep you safer online.

How Cross-Account Protection works

What apps get security messages from Google

To get security messages from Google, an app must:

• Participate in Cross-Account Protection.
• Be linked to your Google Account.
  • If an app is linked to your Google Account, you’ve either:
    • Signed in to the app with your Google Account
    • Shared access to some of your Google Account data with an app created by a developer other than Google

When security messages are sent

When there is suspicious activity on your Google Account, security messages are sent. For example:

• Your account is hacked
• Your account is suspended or disabled
• Your account has been signed out from your devices or browsers

How security messages are used

Security messages can be used by Google and participating apps to:

• Find suspicious activity on your account
• Sign you out of the participating app to keep your account safe

Manage Cross-Account Protection

Find which apps participate

1. Go to your linked apps page.
   • You may need to sign in.
2. Select an app.
3. Check if it has the Cross-Account Protection badge .
   • If the app has the Cross-Account Protection badge , it participates in Cross-Account Protection.

Remove account access

If you don’t want to use an app that participates in Cross-Account Protection, you can remove its access to your account.

When you remove an app, it:

• Gets a final message that it is no longer linked to your account.
• Won’t get security messages for your Google Account anymore.

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