{"id":125752,"date":"2021-08-02T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/google-soon-wont-let-you-sign-in-on-very-old-android-devices"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:22:18","slug":"google-soon-wont-let-you-sign-in-on-very-old-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/google-soon-wont-let-you-sign-in-on-very-old-android-devices","title":{"rendered":"Google soon won\u2019t let you sign in on very old Android devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-soon-wont-let-you-sign-in-on-very-old-android-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting September 27th.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you still have a device running Android 2.3.7 (the final version of Gingerbread) or older, Google won\u2019t let you sign in to your Google account on that device starting September 27th, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/thread\/118703101\/sign-in-on-android-devices-running-android-2-3-7-or-lower-will-not-be-allowed-starting-september-27?hl=en\">according to a support document<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/liliputing.com\/2021\/08\/google-to-block-sign-ins-for-android-2-3-and-lower.html\">via <em>Liliputing<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of our ongoing efforts to keep our users safe, Google will no longer allow sign-in on Android devices that run Android 2.3.7 or lower starting September 27, 2021,\u201d the company says. \u201cIf you sign into your device after September 27, you may get username or password errors when you try to use Google products and services like Gmail, YouTube, and Maps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting September 27th. If you still have a device running Android 2.3.7 (the final version of Gingerbread) or older, Google won\u2019t let you sign in to your Google account on that device starting September 27th, according to a support document (via Liliputing). \u201cAs part of our ongoing efforts to keep our users safe, Google will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}