Gmail is the most widely used email platform because it is easy to use and comes with many powerful features. But that can’t negate the fact that you’ll never lose access to your Gmail account. There may be several cases where you find it difficult to log into your Gmail account due to wrong password, network issues, etc.
I can’t help you with network issues, but I can help you if you can’t sign in to your Gmail account because you entered the wrong password. Gmail mainly offers two ways to recover your Gmail account:
- Using your phone number
- Using your email address
This guide will talk about how you can recover your Gmail account using your recovery email address; so let’s start with the steps.
Steps to reset Gmail password using recovery email address
- Go to www.gmail.com
- Enter your Gmail address for which you want to reset the password.
- Click on ‘I forgot my password’
- Then enter the last password you remember using with your Gmail account and click ‘Next’.
- After that, you will get a notification on your mobile devices that you have ever logged into your Gmail account, if that is the case, tap ‘Yes’ on your mobile device and press the number you see on the screen. Once you do that successfully, you will be able to change your Gmail account password. If you don’t have access to your mobile device, click ‘Try another way’.
- The next option you can get is to enter the answer to the security question you asked while creating your Gmail account. If you don’t know the answer, click ‘Try another way’.
- The last option you will get is to use your recovery email address to reset your Gmail account password. You must first enter the full recovery email address associated with your Gmail account and then click ‘Submit’. After that, sign in to your recovery email account and recover the code you received from Gmail. Enter that code on the password recovery page and click ‘Confirm’. Once you do that successfully, you will be able to create a new password for your Gmail account.
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Source: HIS Education