Gmail accounts are a great help when they have so much to offer and you only need to create an account to get their amazing features. In addition, Gmail offers several recovery options in case you forget your password, such as:
- Use a recovery email address
- Using a phone number
You can easily reset your password using any of the recovery options provided by Gmail.
There might be a scenario where you added a recovery phone number or email address to your Gmail account, but now you don’t have access to it. Recovery seems impossible, doesn’t it?
Fortunately, Gmail offers another recovery option, that is, using the old password to recover the email address, which is explained in detail in the following video:
You can even refer to the step by step guide below:
- In a new browser tab, go to gmail.com
- Now enter the email address for which you need to reset the password
- Click on ‘I forgot my password’
- You will now be asked to enter the last password you remember for this Google account.
Here, old password means that you should enter any of the passwords you remember for this account. You must have changed it several times, so even if you don’t remember the correct one, you can remember and enter the one you have ever used for your account, press ‘Next’.
- Then, to recover your Gmail account, you will be asked to verify the notification you received from Google on your mobile device. You simply have to press ‘Yes’ on your mobile device and then the number you see on the screen. If you do not have access to your mobile device displayed on the screen, click the ‘I don’t have my phone’ option to continue.
| Note: To use this option, you will only need to access your old mobile device that you have ever used to log in to your Gmail account; No phone number is required. |
- After that, you will have the option to use your recovery email address to recover your Gmail account, since you don’t have access to it, just click “Try another way”.
- Then, based on the recovery information you’ve added to your Gmail account, you’ll be given the option to use your mobile phone number or answer a security question. So even if you don’t have access to your recovery email address or phone number, you can still regain access to your Gmail account by answering the security question correctly, click ‘Next’ to continue.
- After correctly answering the security question, you will be able to change your Gmail account password.
So you can easily reset your Gmail account password, even if you don’t have access to your alternate or recovery email address or phone number associated with your account.
Note: The options you have for recovering your Gmail account depend on the information you added to your account when you set it up. If you have not added recovery information, 9it will not be possible to regain access to your account; Google will need certain information to check if the real owner of the account is the one who tries to recover it; all you can do is create a new Gmail account. |
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Source: HIS Education