How To Restore a Recently Deleted Google Workspace User

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Before you begin

  • You can restore a user account up to 20 days after deleting it. After 20 days the data is gone. Not even Google Workspace can restore it.

  • A user cannot be restored if the username has been given to someone else as a primary address, an email alias, or a group email address.

  • A user cannot be restored if you don’t have an available user license. If you need Google Workspace licenses, please contact us here.

  • You must be signed in as a super administrator to restore a deleted Google Workspace user.

  • If you only have one Google service, restoring a user automatically reactivates access for the user. If you have more than one service, the user’s access is automatically restored for those services they had a license for—assuming you had automatic license assignment turned on for that service. Otherwise, you need to manually reassign a license for a service to the user.

Restore a recently deleted Google Workspace User

1. Sign in to the Google Admin console.

2. On the Admin console home page, click Users.

3. Above the users list, click Add a filter and select Recently deleted.

4. Hover over the user you want to recover. Then click Recover.

5. Review the confirmation notice. Then click Continue.

6. Select the organizational unit you want to assign the user to. Then click Recover.

Note: It can take up to 24 hours for this change to take effect.

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