Many of us rely on Google and its services for our daily tasks. Your Gmail address is not only used to send and receive emails, but you can also use it to sign in to other apps, websites, and services. So it’s hard to imagine what could happen if you somehow lost access to your Gmail or Google account.

While there are ways to recover your Gmail account, it is always safe to prevent it so that your Gmail data remains with you even if you get locked out in the future. In this post, we will explain all the ways you can prevent losing your Gmail data.

If you want to prevent your account from being temporarily blocked, you can protect your Gmail account or the data in it.

Google takes data seriously and in addition to syncing all your stuff between phones and other devices, you can also download all your data from all of its services using its Takeout tool. To avoid losing your Gmail data if you lose access to your account, you can always keep a backup of all your emails. When you download your Gmail data from Takeout, all of your emails are saved in MBOX format and your user settings are saved in a JSON file.