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How to turn on less secure app access on google?

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There is no option for turn on less secure app access

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Is there any another way to turn on less secure app access???

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Sandip Gadade
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TLDR: login with your phone and enable 2FA, then generate an "app password". – Douglas Silva Dec 26, 2023 at 20:06

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As of May 30 2022 google has removed the less secure apps option. There is no way to turn this on as it no longer exists.

If you are trying to use Google smtp server you have two options
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1. Enable 2fa on your google account and create an apps password and use that in place of your true password in your code.

2. switch to using Xoauth2 most of the libraries support it. it will depend upon the language you are using though.

Quick fix for SMTP username and password not accepted error

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Linda Lawton - DaImTo
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1 This is an excellent guide to set up 2fa: towardsdatascience.com/… – Jens Wagemaker Dec 17, 2022 at 16:17

2 1st option worked for me! – Athif Saheer Jul 4, 2023 at 17:41

Very helpful - link was super useful too – e-driver1 Jan 1 at 13:47

Note: 2-factor authentication needs to be enabled if not enabled already.

Less secure apps ( https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/lesssecureapps) options is disabled.

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Instead use apppasswords using following link.
https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/apppasswords

Use 16 digit code provided by google instead of password and that should be it.

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The App Passwords section can also be found by navigating to Security, then 2FA in the block named "How you login", then scroll to the bottom of the page.
– Douglas Silva Dec 26, 2023 at 20:52

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Note that the spaces in the password should not be there. Sometimes a copy/paste leaves them in there. I'm perplexed at why google would do
this since password "readability" is a thing that hasn't been a thing in years. It should be copy-paste at a minimum....
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TL;DR: NO SPACES

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1 Are you sure? I'm using it with the spaces, and it works. – Douglas Silva Dec 26, 2023 at 20:43

@DouglasSilva same here. I left the spaces and it worked – Dustin Spengler Apr 7 at 23:06

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