To unlock certain features, you can give third-party apps and services some access to your Google Account. For example, a photo editor app may request access to your Google Photos to apply filters.
Some Google products that third-party apps and services may request access includes:
- Gmail
- Drive
- Calendar
- Photos
- Contacts
Important: Third-party apps are companies or developers that aren’t Google. Only give access to your Google Account if you trust a third-party app.
Give a third-party app access to your Google Account
To share some access to your Google Account data, follow these instructions:
- When a third-party app or service prompts you to share access to your Google Account, review the request carefully to find what information and permissions it asks for.
- If you decide to share access, you must sign in to your Google Account.
- Authorize the third-party app or service to have some access to your Google Account data.
Share your Google data with third party apps:
If you allow access to a third-party app, you may have the option to limit how long they can access your data. You'll get notified before a third party’s access ends. To extend their access, go to your Connections page.
Third-party apps can request different kinds of access to your Google Account. They can request access to:
- Get your basic profile: Your basic profile information includes your name, email address, and profile picture. To create a new account on the third-party app or service, a third-party app may request this information. When you sign in with Google on third-party apps and services that have this feature, you authorize access to your basic profile. Learn how to sign in with Google.
- View and copy data from your Google Account: Third-party apps and services can request for permission to find and copy data like your contacts, photos, YouTube playlists, and more.
- If you revoke the third-party app’s access to your Google Account, they can’t access your data anymore. You may need to request to delete the data they already have.
- Manage data in your Google Account: Third-party apps or services may request permission to edit, upload, create, or delete data in your Google Account.
- For example:
- A film editor app may edit your video and upload it to your YouTube channel.
- An event planner app may create or delete events on your Google Calendar.
- For example:
Common questions about access to your Google Account
How do I know which third-party apps have access to my Google Account data?Tip: To review or change the access of a third-party app or service, select its name from the list.
If you no longer want a third-party app to have access to your Google Account, you can remove them from your third-party connections.
- Make sure you’re signed into your Google Account.
- View the apps and services with third-party access.
- Select the third-party app or service from the list whose connection you want to remove.
- Select See details
Remove access
Tip: If you have more than one connection type, your third-party access connection appears under “{App name} has some access to your Google Account.”
Third-party apps can only access the data and services that you authorize them to. Before Google shares any of your data with a third-party app or service, you’ll find a list of the data and services that the third-party wants to access.
For example, if you authorize a third-party app to access only your Google Calendar data, they can access only that data and not any of your other Google data, like your Google Photos or Contacts.
You can remove access to your Google Account at any time.
You can give third-party apps different levels of access to your Google Account like basic account information and to view or modify your account data. If you authorize a third-party app access to manage your Google Account data, they can edit, create, and delete data in your Google Account. When you authorize access to your account, you can find the type of access that the third-party app requests for, on access that third-parties can have.
Do not share your Google Account password on a third-party app or service. If you share your Google Account password with a third-party app or service, they’ll have full access to your account and this can compromise your account security.
Instead, you can share some access to your Google Account with trusted third-party apps and services, which is more secure.
To authorize access to a third-party app or service, you must sign in to your Google Account.
If you have more than one Google Account, you're prompted to select the account you want to use or sign in to another Google Account to continue.
- If you delete your Google Account, you also delete all associated third-party connections. The third-party app or service may keep information you previously shared with them. You may need to ask the third-party app to delete any data they already have.
When you delete your third-party account, it doesn’t affect your Google Account.
- To stop sharing your data with a third-party app or service, remove them from your connections management page. This revokes any access that you have previously granted them.