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TL;DR
- Google is rolling out two new ways to recover your account after you lose access.
- “Recovery Contacts” lets you pick trusted friends and family to verify your identity.
- Users will soon be able to use their mobile number and lock screen passcode to sign in.
The thought of losing access to your Google account for whatever reason is bad enough. But being unable to recover that account would be even worse. To make account recovery less of a pain in the neck, Google is rolling out new account recovery tools.
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