Add or remove accounts

When you set up your phone, you were prompted to add a Google account. If you skipped this, be sure to set one up now so you can download apps from Play Store, get a customized information feed, and take full advantage of the Calendar, Gmail, and other apps included with your account.

You can also add other web accounts.

For each account, you can control which of its features and apps sync with your phone.

Add Google accounts

To add a Google account:

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Touch Accounts > Add account.
  3. Touch Google and follow the onscreen instructions to add an existing account or to create a new one.
  4. Once the account is added, Calendar, Contacts, and other account features and apps are updated with information from that account. You can review and change what syncs with your phone for that account.
TipKeep your apps up-to-date. To see if newer versions of the apps associated with your Google account are available, open the Play Store app and touch > My apps & games.

Add other accounts

You can add corporate email accounts, personal email accounts, or other accounts. Many social networking accounts are automatically set up when you install the app.

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Touch Accounts > Add account.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • Touch the type of account to add and follow the onscreen instructions. Learn more about setting up email accounts.
    • If you don't see the type of account you want to add, install the related app from Play Store, then sign into your account through the app.
  4. Once the account is added, account-related features and apps are updated with information from that account. To review and change what syncs with your phone, touch the account type, then account name.

Remove accounts

If you remove an account, information you synced will be removed from your phone, but it is not deleted from your account.

To remove the Google account you used to set up your phone, you must reset your phone.

To remove other accounts:

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Touch Accounts and touch the type of account to remove.
  3. Touch the account name.
  4. Touch > Remove account.
TipIf you have trouble removing a corporate account, go to Settings > Security > Device administrators and remove the checkmark for the account, then try to remove it again.