Why Google Keeps Asking You To Verify It's You Each Time You Sign In | Authentication

Why Google Keeps Asking You To Verify It's You Each Time You Sign In | Google Authentication

Google keeps asking you to verify your identity to be certain it's you. You may have encountered it in the past or may be encountering it now.

The verification steps is a good thing, and Google is doing this to keep your account safe.

You may have also observed that Google does not keep record of your login sessions, and though you've logged in to a Google service such as Gmail, YouTube, Drive, Search Console, Google Analytics, etc. before, Google is again asking you each time you want to login to verify it's you again.

Google may ask you to verify with your mobile phone recorded to be connected to your account. In this case, you'll have to click a pop up on your smart phone 'It's me', then click a code that displays to sign in. This code must correspond to the code that is displayed on your browser screen in order to be verified successfully.

If you have 2 step sign in activated, or you use the google authenticator, you may require to verify your identity while trying to login to your account via these methods instead.

But why does Google keep asking you to verify your identity each time you try to login in. Why won't they keep record of your first login and stop asking you to verify over and over again?

There are a couple of reasons why this may happen.

Normally, Google keeps record of your sign in operations but if you start noticing the 'verify it's you' over and over again, it is simply because Google cannot confirm it's you trying to sign into the account.

This may happen if:

You are logging in from a different device or browser that you have used to sign in previously.

You are signing into your account from an incognito tab or window of your browser.

You are using a VPN to access the google product.

If therefore, you want google to keep record of your login sessions and stop asking you to login over and over again, you'd need to do contrary to the above likely causes.

Login to google services from one device such as the same mobile phone and computer every time.

Sign in from the main browser window.

Drop or disconnect from VPN.

Hope this solves the need to verify your identity every time with google and it also solves the issue of google not keeping record of your sign in operations/sessions.