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 and services you use with your Google Account. That way, third-party apps and services can use Google’s suspicious event detection to help keep you safer online.
How Cross-Account Protection works
What apps & services get security messages from Google
To get security messages from Google, an app or service must:
- Participate in Cross-Account Protection.
- Be connected to your Google Account.
- If an app or service is connected to your Google Account, you’ve either:
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 and services to:
- Find suspicious activity on your account
- Sign you out of the participating app or service to keep your account safe
Manage Cross-Account Protection
Find which apps & services participate
- Go to your third-party connections page.
- You may need to sign in.
- Select an app or service.
- Check if it has the Cross-Account Protection badge
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- If the app or service has the Cross-Account Protection badge
- If the app or service has the Cross-Account Protection badge
Remove account access
If you don’t want to use an app or service that participates in Cross-Account Protection, you can remove its access to your account.
When you remove an app or service, it:
- Gets a final message that the connection is stopped.
- Won’t get security messages for your Google Account anymore.
