Hi, does anyone have experience of migrating a Workspace account to a personal Google account?
I run my personal domain through Google Workspace and have done since the days of Google Apps Free Edition. We have a couple of Workspace email accounts which are purely for personal use. We don't conduct any business whatsoever on the Workspace account (how did I end up here?). I am finding it increasingly difficult to manage some Nest Smart Home devices using the Workspace email and finding in counter intuitive to manage these with an extra Gmail account.
Google clearly aren't accommodating personal users on Workspace accounts. I get that, it's a business service just a shame they didn't make this clear when promoting Google Apps Free Edition.
I'm at the point now where I'm considering the following:
1 - Backup Google Workspace data and delete Workspace account
2- Setup third-party email hosting and re-configure DNS
3- Setup personal Google accounts using custom emails
4- Create new Google Smart Home and re-register smart home devices (Doorbell, Thermostat, Nest Cams, Speakers, etc.)
5- Subscribe to Google One plan for extra photo storage (A friend has managed this using his ISP email)
6- Transfer Nest Aware subscription (currently assigned to free Gmail) to new Google Account
My main reservation is whether my custom emails will register as personal Google accounts and if so, will my Nest devices work with these new accounts? I will test this beforehand using another custom domain but wanted to see if anyone else had gone down this route.
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