Why Your Account Recovery Request Is Delayed - Google Account Help

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If you’ve already followed the steps to recover your account ,
you may see a message that your account is protected by a
Secure a hacked or compromised
security hold. This is a delay between when a request to
Google Account
recover your account is made and when the account recovery
claim is processed. If there’s something unusual about your Recover a recently deleted Google
recovery request, this delay helps protect your account. Account

Tip: If you're signed in on a different device than the one you're


Why your account recovery request is
using for account recovery, try recovering your account again
delayed
using the device you're signed in on.

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How a delay helps protect your account


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During this delay, we use your recovery info and other info
you’ve provided to notify you that an account recovery request Signing in with an Apple device
has been made. That way, if someone else is trying to access
your account, you have time to deny the request and secure
your account.

How long your account recovery request is


delayed
Account recovery requests can be delayed for a few hours or a
number of days, depending on a variety of risk factors. For
example, if you added more security to your account by setting
up 2-Step Verification, your account recovery request might be Welcome to your Google Account!
delayed for longer. We see you have a new Google
Account! Learn how to improve your
Tip: If you get access to another way to verify it’s you during
experience with your Google Account
the delay, like a device where you normally sign in, you can checklist.
follow the steps to recover your account again. That way, you
might have a better chance of recovering the account or
recovering it faster.

Avoid future account recovery delays


You can help make sure it’s easy to access your account by
staying signed in, adding recovery info and keeping your
recovery info current. If you use Two-Step Verification, you can
add backups to give you more ways to verify it’s you.

Learn more about how to avoid getting locked out of your


Google Account.

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