How to See All Apps That Have Access to Your Google Information
Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of focus on the apps you have connected to your Facebook account. While this is certainly a great idea, you shouldn’t ignore another large company that you probably share a lot of your personal information with as well: Google.
Admittedly, I use Sign In with Google quite often. I hate filling out web forms and clicking this button cuts a lot of time when it comes to logging into websites. When you do use this button, you are giving the relevant website or application access to some information associated with your Google account, which may include your name, gender, and the country you live in, among other details. Of course, this is information that you could have filled out in this web form anyway, but it may be information that you would not want to share anymore.
As with Facebook, it’s a good idea to periodically review them and make sure you still want to give all apps that have access to your information access to it. I didn’t do it for probably a year when I saw this CNBC story this weekend that reminded me of.
To see what’s associated with your account, click here on your desktop .
From there, navigate to Account Access Applications under Login & Security. It’s the third option on the left sidebar if you can’t find it.
The next page will show you all the apps that have access to your Google account, as well as all the sites where you’ve saved passwords to use Google Smart Lock.
If you click on the apps section, Google will individually list all the apps that have access to your account, as well as what they have access to. If you see the one you want to close access to, click on it and a blue button will appear allowing you to remove it.
I actually had fewer apps connected to my Google account than I thought, but definitely had a handful to break with.