I've a factory standard Moto G4 with Android 6 despite weeks and weeks of nagging to upgrade to Nougat.
Today I made an attempt to update aka "manage" the two gmail accounts I have running on the phone. One I used on my previous Motorola E, and one I set set for my newer (but no longer new) phone. I have used email for longer than most (not all) of you have been alive, but I'd been struggling with working out how to manage (meaning - doing some housekeeping) on a mobile. Sooooo easy on a PC.
Anyway, during the flip-flopping between accounts, trying to delete spam (old emails/spam etc) which I appear to need to do line-by line, I did something that seems to be impossible.
I GOT A DROP DOWN MENU TO LOG OUT OF BOTH EMAIL ACCOUNTS.
At the time I thought nothing of it, until I tried to repeat it. Couldn't find what I had done. Have carried out an extensive search and found the generally accepted way of doing this, (logging out) is to delete the account(s) on the phone or the tablet.
Well I can tell you, that isn't necessary. There is a keystroke sequence that produces a small drop down box on the upper right side of the screen, asking if you want to log out of gmail accounts on the phone, and confirms each one is logged off when you select it.
The $64,000 question is: What sequence did I use? I wish I had known whatever I did was special. Perhaps 30 screen choices later, it dawned on me I'd found something special. 50 screen changes later, I knew I had. A Google search tells me I did the impossible, but it isn't impossible, there is a hidden 'Easter Egg' way of logging out of Gmail when using Android that hasn't been declared by Google.
Why do I mention this?
No-one is going to find this "logging off" option, if people aren't looking. Well, it's there, so I'm hoping someone with the time and tenacity to find it, WILL find it, and publish the result.
If anyone wants to know why I might want to log out of gmail, the person asking does not understand the fundamental need for security, so please don't show your ignorance by asking. Google wants us logged in to their data collecting system 24/7 and is why their PC based gmail service has recently changed so you stay logged into gmail unless you log out. A change many people don't like for good reason.
I'm unhappy I can't logout of gmail on my Android phone, and it seems there is a way of doing it that Google has hidden. Why? Why hidden?
So, can someone please help find the hidden route to logging out of gmail on Android devices?
I was running no other apps in the background, though Whatsapp is installed, as is Twitter. No Facebook. Nothing else installed or running. (I'm not sure Chrome wasn't running though?)
Good luck, all you clever people.
Today I made an attempt to update aka "manage" the two gmail accounts I have running on the phone. One I used on my previous Motorola E, and one I set set for my newer (but no longer new) phone. I have used email for longer than most (not all) of you have been alive, but I'd been struggling with working out how to manage (meaning - doing some housekeeping) on a mobile. Sooooo easy on a PC.
Anyway, during the flip-flopping between accounts, trying to delete spam (old emails/spam etc) which I appear to need to do line-by line, I did something that seems to be impossible.
I GOT A DROP DOWN MENU TO LOG OUT OF BOTH EMAIL ACCOUNTS.
At the time I thought nothing of it, until I tried to repeat it. Couldn't find what I had done. Have carried out an extensive search and found the generally accepted way of doing this, (logging out) is to delete the account(s) on the phone or the tablet.
Well I can tell you, that isn't necessary. There is a keystroke sequence that produces a small drop down box on the upper right side of the screen, asking if you want to log out of gmail accounts on the phone, and confirms each one is logged off when you select it.
The $64,000 question is: What sequence did I use? I wish I had known whatever I did was special. Perhaps 30 screen choices later, it dawned on me I'd found something special. 50 screen changes later, I knew I had. A Google search tells me I did the impossible, but it isn't impossible, there is a hidden 'Easter Egg' way of logging out of Gmail when using Android that hasn't been declared by Google.
Why do I mention this?
No-one is going to find this "logging off" option, if people aren't looking. Well, it's there, so I'm hoping someone with the time and tenacity to find it, WILL find it, and publish the result.
If anyone wants to know why I might want to log out of gmail, the person asking does not understand the fundamental need for security, so please don't show your ignorance by asking. Google wants us logged in to their data collecting system 24/7 and is why their PC based gmail service has recently changed so you stay logged into gmail unless you log out. A change many people don't like for good reason.
I'm unhappy I can't logout of gmail on my Android phone, and it seems there is a way of doing it that Google has hidden. Why? Why hidden?
So, can someone please help find the hidden route to logging out of gmail on Android devices?
I was running no other apps in the background, though Whatsapp is installed, as is Twitter. No Facebook. Nothing else installed or running. (I'm not sure Chrome wasn't running though?)
Good luck, all you clever people.
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