Anyone here ever been locked out of your own Google Account for suspicious activity? How’d it turn out for you?
I have an account that I use to manage an Android phone for my elderly mother-in-law. A couple of weeks ago, it prompted me to add a backup account, so I did. A week later, it locked me out of the account, and the only thing I can think of that might have triggered this “suspicious activity” lockdown was the addition of the backup account.
It’s a tad inconvenient. She doesn’t use the Google features, but she’s currently in a rehab facility, and if her phone were stolen, I would not be able to use the Find My Phone feature to lock it down, since I can’t access the account.
I began the account recovery process and was told I had to wait 30 days for it to be unlocked. 