If, for whatever reason, you need to delete your Gmail account, it's a relatively painless process. Here's how to back up your data and delete your account.

Check all you want to download, but if your goal is to delete just your Gmail account, not necessarily your whole Google account, focus on the mail.

The first thing that will probably come to your mind is “why would anyone want to delete their Google account?” Users should be thinking of how to secure it, not delete it. However, it is ...

How to delete emails permanently in the Gmail app All of you probably know how to delete an email, but we’ll cover that too, just in case. You can delete one email, or more at once.

Once you delete your Gmail account, you will no longer have access to any of your emails, so it's strongly advised that you download your data first. Here's how. Go to your Google Account.