What Are Less Secure Apps: Introduction
Learn what falls within the scope of the “less secure app” definition.
You can disable access to less secure apps through your Admin console settings, or you can allow users to control this setting on their own.
Go to the Admin console https://admin.google.com and click Security.
Select Less secure apps.
On the left, under Organizational Units, select the OU containing the users for which you want to configure the setting. All sub-OUs nested under the OU you choose will have the same setting applied to them.
By default, if you don’t select an OU, you will add your setting to the top OU, named after your domain. By applying a setting to the top-level OU, you apply it to all users in the account.
You can also search for an OU to find it faster if you have a large OU structure.
Selecting Disable access to less secure apps prevents users from granting access to some third-party apps.
Allow users to manage their access allows users to turn it on/off on their own by going to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps as shown here.
After you click SAVE, changes may take up to 24 hours to take effect.
Learn what falls within the scope of the “less secure app” definition.
Enable or disable users’ ability to allow less secure apps to connect to their accounts.
Allow or prevent less secure apps from connecting to your Google account.
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