Change the phone number on your account & how it's used

Y'all can add, update, or remove phone numbers on your Google Business relationship. Telephone numbers are used for different reasons, and you lot have controls to manage how your numbers are used.

Important: It may accept a week before y'all can use your new phone number to verify it'south you for sensitive deportment like changing your password.

Add, update or remove phone number

  1. Open your Google Account.
  2. Under "Personal info," select Contact infoand then Phone.
  3. From here you can:
  4. In the box that appears, follow the instructions.

Note: Changing the number in your Google Account only affects some Google services. Find out how to modify your number for other Google services.

How phone numbers are used

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Plow "Better ads & Google services" on or off

This setting lets your phone number to exist used across Google services to prove you lot ads more relevant to you. If you don't want personalized ads, turn off the setting.

  1. Open up your Google Account.
  2. On the left or at the top, click Personal info.
  3. In the "Contact info" section, click Phone.
  4. Select the phone number that you desire to make changes to.
  5. Nether "Preferences," plough on or off "Better ads and Google services."

Tip: If turned on, "Beyond Google" appears under the Usage department.

Improve your experience across Google

If "Across Google" is listed on your "Phone" page, this number can be used across Google services.

Check if your number is used this way

  1. Go to the Telephone department of your Google Account.
  2. Next to "Usage," look for "Beyond Google."

Terminate using your number across Google

  1. Go to the Phone section of your Google Account.
  2. Next to your number, select Delete Delete and then Remove number.
  3. Get to the Recovery phone department of your Google Account and re-add your number.
  4. To keep using your number in other Google services, become to those services and re-add information technology.

Verify your phone number

When you lot set a Google Account, you can let Google know your phone'due south number. If you do, we'll verify that the number is yours, and we'll endeavour to re-verify it from fourth dimension to time to brand sure that it's nonetheless yours. Learn more about verifying your number.

Google doesn't sell your personal information, including your phone number, to anyone. To learn more, visit privacy.google.com.

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