I recently recycled (read dug out of retirement for second phone use!) a Samsung Galaxy s4, and I wanted to remove a heap of old Google accounts, but, having updated Android, the option was nowhere to be seen.
It took me a long time to figure out how to do this, so I’m posting here for anyone stuck in a similar situation.
To remove a Google Account from Samsung Galaxy s4
- Go to settings
- Click “Accounts”
- Select “Google” (you probably already did this, but bear with me!)
- Click the account you want to remove – it will show you sync options, but no remove button in sight…
- Bottom left of your phone, next to the main button, there’s a menu button (opposite side to the “back” button) – hit this
- This will reveal 2 options, one of which is “Remove account” – hit this
- A confirm screen pops up – confirm that you really want to remove the account… and wait
- Its gone!
Please leave a comment below if this helped you today. After it took me around 2 months, I suspect you might have been looking a while for this setting!
Spent ages attempting to remove old Google account from phone. Couldn’t find it anywhere, thanks for the heads up.
Thank you for this! I was getting rather frustrated!
Brilliant – thank you! Scratched my head for a long time on this one.
Perfect – thank you!
OMG thanks for this!!
Was getting sooooo frustrated!
FANTASTIC!! Wham bam and it’s worked! Spent ages trying to remove an account without success then followed your advice and .
Thanks so much! Couldn’t find correct instructions anywhere else.
Thank you thank you thank you!! Apparently even Google doesn’t know how to remove an account. I’ve been trying for weeks to figure it out and what Google says to do ain’t worth a shit!! Thanks man!
Very good knowledge. Thank you.
This helped me☺
Thanks so much, spent weeks looking for this.
Thank you!!! Super easy helpful..
Took me forever! Big thanks to you!!!
Thanks! Instructions all over the Internet are wrong. Even from Google itself. What’s the matter with that? Thank you, my hero.
Thank you very much. I a returning an old handset for a small refund against the cost of a new phone and their instructions to remove accounts was not complete. You have saved me hours of research!
Thanks again, Clive
WOW. I have spent hours trying to delete an old account. HOURS!!!!
I saw this and it took me a few seconds.
Thank you!
thank you. These things seem to be made deliberatly obscure. Maybe not. Maybe just oversights. But thank you for making it clear. I would never have copped that myself
Thank you thank you…was getting so frustrated…
You are a star! problem solved, thank you so much.
Is there a way to remove the account if the menu key is broken?
Thank you, it pisses me off..
Thank you, spent whole night trying to remove old account
Thank you so much! It was generous of you to share – I’m grateful. That “caution” icon was really bugging me!
Thank you!! I was getting soo frustrated, I was close to giving up then I saw your note and it worked! I compared it to the exclamation mark you get in your car but you just ignore it. I couldn’t ignore it any longer. Thanks again!!!
My wife’s email (POP) on her PC stopped working so I changed the password and got locked out because her tablet and smartphone (IMAP) were trying to sync her inbox. Every time I changed the password this happened until I realized that other devices were causing the problem by pounding in the old password so I tried to delete her email account on her Galaxy S4 and was ready to take the battery out of it when I found your post. All the other posts I found said to tap ‘remove account’ and none even suggested that you need to use the left button to find. Thank-you again for saving my sanity.
Yes, it helped a lot.
Tysm. It’s really difficult to find this option.
You are amazing! Thank you so much. My son and I are so grateful
Thank you so much! 🙂
I almost gave up
Helping me to recycle the S4 phone for other uses, Thank you.
Similar situation, so thank you!! (my Samsung Galaxy S4 was well made apparently, and the case helped too )
And of course, it’s simple and obvious now that you explained it.
I literally spent 2 hours trying to do this. All the youtube videos and instructions online showed how easy it was to find the remove button that I did not have. Thanks!
Thanks, that info saved me alot of frustration.
Thank you so much!!
I have also wasted lots of time trying to find it. Your post was a wonderful help
Can’t tell you how much you got me out of a hole! This was driving me mad. What a convoluted way to do this – so non-intuitive. Thanks for posting.
Cheers
Ur a Life saver friend stay safe
Thank you so much for this, this helped me out so much.
Thank you very much. God, dang it. The use of “menu button” is not intuitive. Even with 10 years of IT support experience, I was frustrated. LOL.
Legendary… thank you so much!!
Why do they do that? Hide those options that we really need.
Thank you big time .
Fully satisfied, thanks very much for your wonderful help.
Oh Thank you so much for sharing it! You are genius !
Fantastic instructions–I’m pretty tekkie, but I wouldn’t have figured that out. I have closed google, FB, twitter, linkedin and skype. I only use telegram I felt it was time to draw the line in the sand and say no more to these corporate psychopaths.
I intend you well in all your endeavors and once again, thanks for the precise instructions–worked perfectly!!!
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Love ya!
YOU DESERVE A LIFESAVING AWARD!!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!
Thank you so much!! Seriously, what’s wrong with them making it so difficult?! Your instructions were perfect and greatly appreciated.
Wow this worked thank you so much!
Thanks! worked for me in 2023! 🙂 dug out old Samsung S4 and was frustrated with a no longer existing Gmail account sync error splashed across the top of my screen.
Simple once you know:)
OMG! Thank you! It’s also 2023 and trying to set up this old phone for a kid.
Excellent instructions very nice and thank you
O my god thank you. Could not find a way, Google support had nothing
Well that was less than obvious, could have been here a long time without this help. Thanks a lot.
Amazing. Thank you so much
Indeed this was the solution. Thanks!!
Thank you!
I spent weeks looking for a solution getting more and more frustrated and now with few seconds I resolve! Thank you so much. Alberto from Italy
Thank You bruh. You are an effing lifesaver