{"id":565066,"date":"2026-07-23T23:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565066\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:53:12","slug":"selfie-for-sign-in-a-new-easy-way-to-access-your-google-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/565066\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"k6y7o\">Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/account\/about\/?utm_source=kw&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=selfielaunch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Account<\/a> holds a lot of valuable information, from cherished photos to important emails and documents. We always want to make sure that information is private, secure, and readily available to you, which is why we recommend setting up multiple sign-in methods. Today, we\u2019re adding a new way to sign in: <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/video-verification\/signin\/precollection?utm_source=kw&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=selfielaunch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selfie video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4a283\">Selfie video is a new way to get into your account, giving you more options if you\u2019re ever locked out or don\u2019t have access to your usual phone or computer.<\/p>\n<p>How to set up and use selfie video<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8fquu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/16675622\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Setting up a selfie video<\/a> is simple: You just look at your device&#8217;s camera and complete a few short, guided head movements to capture multiple angles.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"aci71\">If you\u2019re having trouble signing in later on, you just take another selfie to get back into your account. Selfie video compares the new video to the one you set up to confirm it is really you and help you get back into your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your Google Account holds a lot of valuable information, from cherished photos to important emails and documents. We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,9277,80],"class_list":["post-565066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-none","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}