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Do not use a Google Workspace account for personal use. Just get a Gmail account. There’s far too many restrictions and caveats that they’ve manufactured in the past few years (for no good reason). I’ve used Google Workspace since 2008, long before any of these restrictions existed and I wish it wasn’t a nightmare to migrate 12 years of context to a Gmail account. Google put me in lose-lose position. Don’t put yourself in one.

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Agreed. I've got email set up for my family via Google Workspace and we're not allowed to manage our Nest with them. All sorts of weird "oh you're a second-class citizen" spots in Google's systems.

Family sharing of Google Play and YouTube Premium subscriptions are not available for workspace accounts either.

Which makes it a no-go once you have a family, EOT. So now the entire family have Apple services instead for the same price.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

You can use google checkout transfer to transfer everything from a workspace account to a gmail one

https://takeout.google.com/transfer

> Transfer Your Content is only available to authorized G Suite for Education Accounts. Please contact your administrator, or sign in with another Google Account.

Looks like it's limited to transferring just the drive docs and emails as well [0], although you can just transfer out the entire org's data if you want[1]. I highly doubt this transfers user purchases and other ownerships tied to the account such as apps, media [movies/tv shows], etc.

0: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6364687

1: https://admin.google.com/ac/customertakeout?pli=1

Workspace allows you to use Gmail with your own domain easily which is really the only reason I use it for a project.

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