Lots of times in the past i have factory reset androids, it wipes everything including your google account. All good and well, one can start fresh. Like for instance if you buy or sell the phone.
Well few days back my daughter's tablet was locked out of google cause she's underage,so i thought i'd do a factory reset and set up a new account with parental control (family link).
To my surprise ,after the reset it said this device has been reset and please log in with the previous account you had on device. Never did that before ...so i put in the details of previous account but kept getting error "something went wrong,try again in 24 hours".
Tried everything for 3 days and still locked out of my own device because i did a factory reset??
Apparently this is a new "security feature" ,which seems pretty useless cause i had to take the tablet to my local phone guy ,who plugged it in a PC and bypassed this new "FRP (factory reset protection)" crap from google in 5 min. Tablet sorted .
Anyway ,just to warn people that before you do a factory reset ,1st delete your google account and any screen password locks you might have . Only then do factory reset.
Pity google doesn't inform people about this new hassle . This is still their way of explaining a factory reset
I found some very upset people over this , lol , look at this rant.
that was posted in 2019, but iv'e done factory resets after that and never encountered that ,so not sure
Here's another article explaining stuff better.
Anyway ,this is just my 2cents about a new frustration from google, and hopefully help someone else falling into the same pit .
ps. maybe this is old news , idk, but it sure was new to me ...how often people do factory resets ...?