GSuite Legacy Going Away -- How to Migrate Account?
My login for ingress is tied to an old free gsuite legacy account and will go away in July now that Google is finally shutting down gsuite for good. Does anyone know how I can migrate my login to a different account so I don't lose data when access to that account goes away? Or even where to ask? I tried using the generic support chat bot, but my... expectations are low. Only good news is I have a few months to figure it out so hopefully it's possible.
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Your email is @gsuite.com? Wow, that is eclectic. I'd always heard "GSuite" meaning the google suite of products. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Workspace Many companies are proud of being on G Suite.
Maybe you can change your Ingress account to Facebook, then again to gmail?
For a little bit, when Google was trying to get companies to buy into their business email hosting, they were giving away free accounts limited to 10 or 50 people. They shut the freebie sign up down 10 or so years ago, but the free accounts have been working just fine. There's a Google docs/forms link somewhere for existing freebie account admins asking what they primarily used it for, some of the wording may be hinting at an option for those people. Have to dig around in your admin panel to find it.
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-surve-free-legacy-g-suite/
If there’s no direct way to migrate with just Email:
Create a dummy Facebook account (or use your normal/game one if you are ok with it). Link your FB to your Niantic game(s) in question in the in-app Settings. Sign Out of your profile then sign back in with Facebook to test. DO NOT unlink your Gsuite account until you’re sure FB logon works.
Once you’re sure signing in via FB works, unlink the email account from your Niantic game(s) so it is just the FB account that is Linked in the in-app Settings. Again, Make sure to Link the Facebook account and test signing in with it BEFORE unlinking the Google account!!! ((You have no idea how many times I have to say an adapted version of this in my job))
For redundancy purposes, you can then just Link a different Google account from the Settings for the game(s) in question in the in-app Settings.