You can create an account for your work or business, a child, or for your personal use. The required fields change a little depending on what you’re creating an account for, but they mostly follow the same steps. Personal account: Use if you want to make an account for you to use personally. Business account: Use this if you want to use Google as a business. You’ll have the ability to connect your real-life business so people can find it online. Child account: This type of account can have restrictions on it based on age or ratings. This is a great option if you want to manage your own child’s Google account.

Click Use my current email address instead if you have an email address and don’t want to create a Gmail address. If your username is taken or not available, you will be given several related options, or you can try a different one.

The mobile phone number is recommended but not required. If you don’t have a phone number, you can skip this step. Click Next to continue through the account verification process.

Click More options to change your settings (if you want to get personalized ads or not). You can change these settings later. [1] X Research source After clicking I agree, your account is made! You’ll see a “My Account” page where you can mess with all your Google settings. If you want to make multiple accounts, make sure you’re logged out and repeat the process.