RELATED: How to Secure Your Gmail and Google Account Your old one will still work as long as you don’t manually remove it on this page. This is a measure put in place because security questions kind of suck at providing actual security. Though Gmail formerly supported security questions, it no longer allows you to add any new ones, only delete access to old ones. They’ll allow easy recovery through a 6-digit pin delivered by email or text message. We highly recommend adding a phone number and a current backup email, if you don’t already have these associated with your account. Secure Your AccountĪfter you’ve set up a new password, Google will prompt you to check the security settings associated with your Gmail account (and your greater Google account in general). Here’s a primer on how to choose a new password that’s both secure and memorable. Now you have access to your account again. Now we’re getting into older, less secure methods of account protection, like security questions such as “what’s your mother’s maiden name.” You should be able to answer at least one of these.Īt this point, create a new password and confirm it. If that doesn’t work-like, say, you don’t have access to the account that you originally designated as a backup either-click “try a different question” again. Newer accounts may also have a phone number backup option-see below.
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Using this option will send a six-digit code to your secondary email account (which doesn’t need to be Gmail) that will allow you to set up a new password and regain access to your account.Ĭheck your mail on this secondary account to see the code, then enter it to unlock a new password generator. The next option will send a code to a recovery email, which rather presumes that you have a secondary recovery email (which you set up way back when you created your Gmail account in the first place). Instead, Gmail will jump straight into sending a code to your recovery email address or asking you for more information to help recover your account. If you can remember a correct password and you have a backup system set up, you’ll then be asked to continue in a variety of ways. If you can’t remember any of them, click “try a different question.” Update, 11/8/21: Google is no longer requesting that you enter any passwords you remember. You’ll then be shown a message asking you to put in the last password you can remember. Starting the password recovery process is pretty easy: just click the “forgot password” link on the Gmail sign-in page.
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