Clear google account data, keep gmail address?

Hi friends, I’m in the process of de-googling my life. After downloading all Google account data, and creating a new email, I would love to be able to simply delete my entire google account, however, for the foreseeable future, I need to keep my gmail account live for professional reasons. Searching online, I can’t find any answers as to how I can completely wipe all of my google account data (drive, photos, chrome, cloud, Gemini, etc, ~15GB) without also deleting my Gmail account. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

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https://myaccount.google.com/delete-services-or-account

Disclaimer: I don’t use Google so I can’t verify how well these links can help you.

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You can log into different services from your account and gradually delete everything there. I haven’t heard of a way to delete all your data with one click. Keep in mind that while you’re deleting this data for yourself in Google, it’s still there for Google.

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If you’re trying to leave the entire Google ecosystem, could you maybe consider creating something else (like Proton email) and then switch your professional contacts/accounts there maybe?

Would be a clean slate from the beginning and not a half-done process that you need to come back to. :sweat_smile:

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