GMAIL - find out when created your account

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"When was my gmail account created?" and "How old is my gmail account?".

The answers online were from 2012 to 2017. There were no recent answers at all! And all the methods that were shared between 2012 and 2017, like the POP method, no longer work


Below are the step to determine when your Gmail account was created.

Step 1. Go to this Google URL  https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/drive/v3/drive.files.get?fileId=root&fields=*&_h=4&;

Here's what you'll see on this page:

Step 2. Click the "Authorize and Execute" Button

When you do so, the following "Select OAuth 2.0 Scopes" popup will appear. Press the "Authorize and Execute" button again.


Step 3. Login To Your Gmail Account

You'll then be asked to choose which Gmail account you want to login to. Here's what that new popup will look like:

Choose Your Gmail Account

Step 4. Scroll Down To See Your Gmail Account Creation Date

Next, all you need to do is scroll down the page a little and you'll see your Gmail account creation date. Here's what mine looks like:

Creation Date of Gmail Account

So there you go. That's exactly how you determine what day, month and year you started your Gmail account.

Or try this, instead.:

A. Login to your GMail account
B. Click gear icon for Settings, then click 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab.
D. Look down a few lines and you'll see a section called 'POP download'.
E. First line of that section will read like this:

1. Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since [Date]

...and that's your start date, in two clicks.