# How do I sign in to gmail? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 10, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368 "2025-03-10T02:29:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/41 "2025-03-10T12:02:26Z")
FYI, I have a Gmail account since June 2004. At the time, you needed an invitation to set one up. But I also just setup a Proton Mail account in about five minutes. I may or may not switch to it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/42 "2025-03-10T13:36:51Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I don’t think you have an _existing_ Gmail account. What is your @gmail.com email address? > Also, did you go to [gmail.com](http://gmail.com)? The login screen does not look like the one you shared in the OP. What is the web address that got you to that landing page? Laaksonen. Looking at Keychain Access, I see there’s one for turkkafromturku. I also have my own address that I set up a few years ago. The one problem I always seem to have had with gmail is that whenever I go to [gmail.com](http://gmail.com) it tales me to [https://accounts.google.com/b/0/AddMailService](https://accounts.google.com/b/0/AddMailService). Removing everything after .com gets me to a welcome page with my initial on it. [Note: it’s my heliboy##### account.] I’ve just added a recovery phone to the account. I logged out It looks like I have another account where the username is the same as my SDMB email address. Gmail is not accepting the passwords I have stored in Keychain Access. Mom and Turk are long dead, so I guess it doesn’t matter. Whoever (possibly) stole my password can have it. Anyway, I can get logged into my own account. Only… there’s no place to check for/send/use email. Clicking the email button just brings up ‘Google account email’ (address), ‘Recovery email’ (address), ‘Contact email’ (address), ‘Alternate emails’, and ‘About me emails’. There is no Inbox (or Deleted, or Sent, or Spam) link ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/43 "2025-03-10T14:37:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Anyway, I can get logged into my own account. Only… there’s no place to check for/send/use email. Go to [mail.google.com](http://mail.google.com); if Google is behaving itself, you should be logged in and able to view mail. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/44 "2025-03-10T14:52:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I can say it’s 100% illegal to access the online _financial_ logins of a dead person. If the bank or broker or whatever figures out it’s you, that will lock those logins and you will find all future IRL interactions with that institution will start from the assumption that you are a criminal trying to steal the decedent’s money. Hmm, my sister did it a lot, and the bank knew about it. Maybe that’s because my sister was already on the account before my mother died. It wasn’t until she tried to add me to the account that they realized they shouldn’t have let her continue using it, and even then, they didn’t actually cut her off. As they were obviously incompetent, we opened an estate account (which is the right thing to do) with both of us listed as executors and with online access for both of us at a different bank. But I’m pretty sure that banks don’t immediately assume you are a thief because you try to pay the taxes on the deceased’s property with the deceased’s money. And certainly not if you just look at the records. (Also, my new will explicitly grants certain digital rights to my heirs and executor. I’d have to read it to be certain what they are, but i noticed the language when i reviewed the draft of the will.) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/45 "2025-03-10T14:53:58Z")
Oops, i just noticed this is FQ, and my last post was not close enough for the topic for FQ. Also, I’m going to flag this thread to be moved to IMHO, which i think is the proper place for it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/46 "2025-03-10T15:05:46Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Go to [mail.google.com](http://mail.google.com); if Google is behaving itself, you should be logged in and able to view mail. That worked! Nothing in it but a bunch of Quora Digest emails, and a security alert that I signed on from one of the Macs. I’ll update my bookmark. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/47 "2025-03-10T15:35:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > That worked! Outstanding! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/48 "2025-03-10T16:13:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve been using Gmail for ten years, and personally, have _never_ had a problem logging into Gmail – using my Google account credentials – across different computers, different web browsers, and several different smartphones (though all with the same number). Same here. I am not very techy so I need simple and easy. Gmail fits that bill. I can sign in at work, home, friends house, iPhone, tablets. I have changed my password numerous times and have never had a problem logging or re-logging in. I’m not knowledgeable enough to help you diagnose your problem, I can only report my personal experience, which is, for me, it’s a good and easy email program. I agree with the above, I hardly ever sign in directly, I usually sign into Google and when I click the Gmail tab I’m automatically logged in. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/49 "2025-03-10T17:56:03Z")
**Moderating** While this thread started out factual, it has since moved into advice and opinion territory. So let’s move this from FQ to IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/50 "2025-03-16T21:32:26Z")
Re: **MY** gmail account. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > > Go to [mail.google.com](http://mail.google.com); if Google is behaving itself, you should be logged in and able to view mail. > > That worked! Now it’s not working. I updated my bookmark to [https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox). When I clicked on it a few minutes ago, it took me to the bogus page in the OP. I tried just [mail.google.com](http://mail.google.com), and got the same thing. When I click on the 3x3 grid of dots next to my initial (avatar) and select Gmail, I get back to the same page. So once again, I am not having any luck signing into Gmail… which gives me no confidence in it. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/51 "2025-03-17T00:03:35Z")
I just type “[gmail.com](http://gmail.com)” in my browser and the sign-in page comes up, or my email (if I didn’t log out). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/52 "2025-03-17T00:14:28Z")
Nope. I still get the page in the OP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/53 "2025-03-17T00:15:16Z")
Have you cleared your browser cache, and deleted cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/54 "2025-03-17T00:18:10Z")
OK, that worked. Really, gmail shouldn’t be such a chore. (Also, I got logged out of SDMB when I cleared history. Off to check Farcebook…) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/55 "2025-03-17T00:26:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > OK, that worked. Really, gmail shouldn’t be such a chore. It worked, and I’m glad for that, but I’ve not ever experienced the kinds of problems that you’ve had with just making Gmail behave in a stable fashion. I am now wondering if it’s some combination of privacy settings on your browser, and/or which browser you are using. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/56 "2025-03-17T00:29:52Z")
Sequoia 15.3.1. For privacy, I allow Google Maps, MS Teams, and work-related things. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/57 "2025-03-17T00:31:55Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > OK, that worked. Really, gmail shouldn’t be such a chore. > > It worked, and I’m glad for that, but I’ve not ever experienced the kinds of problems that you’ve had with just making Gmail behave in a stable fashion. I am now wondering if it’s some combination of privacy settings on your browser, and/or which browser you are using. Yeah, something sounds totally beyond normal here. My whole company runs on the G-suite, including Gmail with our domain As a non-IT person, I anecdotally see a tiny fraction of the issues I experienced when my division was still on O365. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/58 "2025-03-17T00:31:59Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Sequoia 15.3.1. That sounds like a Mac OS. Which browser are you using - Safari, Chrome, etc.? You may need to adjust your privacy settings for Gmail, and/or your browser, to keep the stupid thing from doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/59 "2025-03-17T00:33:50Z")
On the other hand, me and my 200+ coworkers are all on Mac/Safari/Chrome using Gmail at the enterprise level with just about no IT support needed. It’s not simply a Mac thing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368/60 "2025-03-17T00:33:54Z")
Safari. I shouldn’t have to do _anything_ to use gmail, other than to put in my username and password. I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops and ask advice on message boards to _get_ to the login page. Next question: How do I stop getting Quora Digest emails? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-sign-in-to-gmail/1015368.md?page=4)