You can restore a user account (including administrator accounts) up to 20 days after deleting it. After 20 days, the data is gone and Google Workspace support can’t restore it, either. See Delete a user from your organization.
Restore a user
You must be signed in as a super administrator for this task.
To continue, switch to a super administrator account. This (https://admin.google.com) will open the Google Admin console.
- From the Admin console Home page, go to Users.
- Above the Users list, click Add a filter and choose Recently deleted.
- Hover over the user you want to restore and click Recover.
- Review the confirmation notice
click Continue.
- Select the organizational unit you want to assign the user to.
Read about how the organizational structure works.
- Click Recover.
Note: It can take up to 24 hours for this change to take effect.
If the user was previously suspended or had their data transferred, they'll show as a suspended user. To give them access to their data, see Restore a suspended user.
You can’t restore a user if...
- It’s been longer than 20 days since you deleted the user account.
- The username or email alias has been given to someone else as a primary address or email alias—or if it’s used for a group.
- You don’t have an available user license.
- Your domain is no longer available or has been moved to another Google Workspace account.
If the username is being used...
If you try to restore a user but their username is already associated with another account or group, you still might be able to restore the user:
- Search for the username in your Admin console. For details, go to Search in the Admin console.
- If the username is being used by an alias address or group, change or delete its username.
Note: Group aliases are not available in search or search results. - Follow the steps above to restore the user that was previously using that username.