How To Make an Account Default On Google- Step by Steps

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In this article, We’ll explore how to make an account default on google. We need so many emails nowadays, One for School, One for Bank, and the other for Spam. In any case, We always have a primary email which we visit frequently. This could be your email with all your subscription, bank account, etc. And you want this email to load whenever you enter gmail.com. If you are tired of switching accounts and want a single email as your default opening Gmail, Then you can follow this article. 

To Learn How To Make an Account Default on Google in macOS, Windows, Linux.

It doesn’t matter what’s running your device right now, Whether you are on Ubuntu, Mac, or Windows. Of course, this tutorial will work on all platforms. As the following is abstract to only browser And has nothing to do with your OS. Most people use google chrome, And I’ll be using the same. But you can use any browser of your choice including Firefox, Safari, etc. Google keeps things simple and opens a new Gmail page always with your default email. This means that you need to remove all your emails. Or sign out from much of them in order to re-establish the hierarchy of which email id should be given preference. 

Step-1: First of all, you can open the browser in which your Gmail account is logged in.  And then you can visit the Google.com site. 

Step-2: After you are on the Google landing page, Click on your Thumbnail image in the top-right corner of the website.

Thumbnail image top right corner of the gmail screen

Step-3: If you scroll down a little, you’ll see a button that says “Sign out of all accounts.” You can click on the same to remove the login credentials of all the Gmail accounts.

Sign out of all account options

Step-4: After you do that the place where earlier your Thumbnail was there on the top-right side, You could now see an option for ‘Sign In’

Step-5: Click on the ‘Sign in’ button, And you will see all your Gmail accounts listed as they were before. But below them, you will also see a message ‘Signed Out’. This means that you need to reenter your credentials to start using those accounts again.

Gmail account sign out screen and asking credentials for login

Step-6: Among the listed Gmail accounts, you can choose the one that you want to be your default Google account here. After you click on the Gmail account; And have entered the password. Of course, You would use the following as your default Google account so far.

This screen shows to make google default account in one example google email id

Step-7: Now that your default google account has been updated successfully without getting any trouble. Then,  you can also able to sign in with other related google accounts as well. Doing so will not remove your chosen default Gmail account.

On the other hand, The following tutorial can help you easily change your default Google account if you wish to do so.

I would highly recommend you to use Google Chrome on Android. This is one of the best browsers and also developed by the same company that you use for Gmail. The method is very similar to that I shared for Desktop devices above. But due to the design difference for mobile, and desktop views. I’ll reiterate the entire process for the mobile as well. 

Detailed Steps For how to make an account default on google for mobile. 

Step-1: Open your Chrome browser and visit mail.gmail.com. Once you do that you will be redirected to the mobile version of your Gmail account.

Gmail App or mail.mail.com mobile screen

Step-2: Now click on the Hamburger Menu on the top-left side of your screen. Once you do that a number of different options will appear.

Top left right screen options

Step-3: Click on the small down-arrow (Drop Down) button on the right side of your Gmail account. 

Step-4: Here, you will see the option called “Manage your Google Account”. Click on that option here.

Manage account on this device option

Step-5: Now you will see a Sign Out option, Below ‘Add another account. Click on the Sign Out to remove the current account.

Google account Sign out and trun off sync option

Step-6: Sign In with the ID that you want as your default Google account. 

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