App Specific Passwords For Gmail And GSuite Apps | Step By Step Guide
An app specific password is a unique password that is generated for a specific application or service that you use with your Google account. This allows you to use a different password for each app or service, and makes it more difficult for someone to gain access to your account if they manage to compromise one of the apps or services.
If you have two-step verification turned on for your G Suite account, you may occasionally be asked to enter an App Specific Password when signing in to a new application or device that doesn’t support two-step verification.
App Specific Passwords are generated by you, and are specific to the application or device you’re using. You can create your App Specific Passwords for GSuite account from the Google Account Security page.
Each App Specific Password you generate is good for only one application or device. If you need to generate a new password for an application or device, you can do so from the Security page at any time.
If you lose or forget an App Specific Password, you can generate a new one from the Security page. You won’t be able to use the application or device until you generate a new App Specific Password and enter it in the application or device.
Steps To Generate App Specific Password from google account
- Log in your Google account & click to “My Account”. Image below is how your account will look like.
2. Go to Security > App Passwords. (P.s. You need to have 2 step verification turned on)
3. Once authenticated and verified, Under Select app, choose Mail or Other (Custom name), then select a device.
Select App > Other(Custom name ) for using non-google applications.
4. Use the generated password for any of your apps where you want to use google services for.
Manage App Specific Passwords For Google
If you need to delete or deassociate the app from using your google services, go back to the App Passwords screen to delete the old password that you previously set up.
The main feature of this app specific passeords is that you can revoke and regenerate a password on a service-by-service basis instead of changing the main password to your account.
It’s best practice to use an app specific password for a single service. You are free to generate as many app-specific passwords as you like on google.
Conclusion
These were the simple steps that you can follow to manage various passwords for your Google app logins.
This feature will also make life easier for people who collaborate for their tasks at work.
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