Check recent activity in Gmail account

Security in email services is something that has been taken very seriously for years now and in the case of Gmail the need to strengthen and offer users resources to strengthen the fullfilment of security requirements account has increased and improved over time thus preventing account theft, however this has not stopped if it is something that can be prevented and thanks to this in a certain way this wave of hacks Although it must be said, it depends a lot on the responsibility of each user to keep their account protected since the tools are there, the idea is to use them and in order to know what has happened recently in our account, the Google mail service offers us the option of check recent activity in our Gmail account.

It is a section that is not as visible as other tools but if we are observers we will know how to locate it, in this article we will give some help data on how to locate and know how to use this resource that the service offers us since check activity recent in our Gmail account we will know if the logins correspond to those we have made, we will quickly know of unusual and suspicious activity thanks to this section which helps us to prevent and take actions to prevent our account from being compromised. To begin, we log in to our Gmail account and on the main page we go to the bottom, towards the footer, as we see in the image.

We will see the link «detailed information»And a message that tells us how long the last activity has been carried out in our account, we open the link and immediately a window will be displayed on the page, in this window we will see information, some instructions and data about our account and we will see through a list the entire recent activity made in our Gmail account, this includes from which browser we have connected, the country and the IP address as well as the time in which each activity was carried out.

We can check details about each activity which will give us more precise information and in this way we can find out if something suspicious has happened such as logging in from another country, another browser, another IP address, which would clearly indicate that a third party has tried or managed to access to our account, Gmail gives us the possibility of create alerts every time some type of unusual activity occurs, which helps us to always be aware of what is happening in our account and thus take the necessary measures to prevent our account from being taken over by someone else.