How To Delete Gmail From Iphone And Keep It On My Computer
You can access your Gmail account using a web browser or any email client app on your computer or iPhone. While you configure your Gmail account on your iPhone, it will make use of IMAP/POP and SMTP to transfer email messages. IMAP and POP are the incoming mail server protocols used by the email client app to receive your emails from the mail server, whereas SMTP is the outgoing mail server protocol used to send your emails from the email client.
Deleting Gmail account
If you want to delete your Gmail account from your iPhone, but still want to access it on your computer, you want to use the IMAP protocol. If you have configured the Gmail account using the POP protocol on the iPhone, remove it and reconfigure it using the IMAP protocol. To do How To Delete Gmail From Iphone And Keep It On My Computer, proceed with the quick steps provided below,
Removing/deleting your Gmail account
- Open the Settings screen on iPhone and tap Passwords & Accounts.
- Select your Gmail account and tap Delete Account.
- This will remove the POP Gmail account from the iPhone.
Adding your Gmail account using IMAP
- On iPhone, tap Settings -> Passwords & Accounts -> Add Account -> Other -> Add Mail account.
- Type your name and provide the Gmail account information in the appropriate fields.
- Select IMAP, provide the IMAP and SMTP server details, and tap Save.
Signing out your Gmail account
Removing your Gmail account from your iPhone will not delete the account. You can access it on your computer or any other device. To do this, carry out the simple instructions given here.
- Search for the Gmail application on the home screen of the iPhone and tap its icon.
- Navigate to the upper-right corner of the screen and tap your profile picture.
- Tap the ‘Manage accounts on this device’ option followed by the ‘Remove from this device’ option.
