Gmail accounts are not lacking as they have a lot to offer and you only need to create one to take advantage of its amazing features. Furthermore, Gmail offers several recovery options in case you forget your password, such as:
- Use a recovery email address
- Use phone number
You can easily reset your password using any of the recovery options provided by Gmail.
It may happen that you added a recovery phone number or email address to your Gmail account, but you don’t have access to them right now. Recovery seems impossible, right?
Fortunately, Gmail offers another recovery option, i.e. use the old password to recover the email address, which is explained in detail in the video below:
You can even refer to the step-by-step instructions below:
- In a new browser tab go to gmail.com
- Now enter the email address for which you need to reset your password
- Click ‘Forgot Password’
- You will now be asked to enter the last password you remember for this Google Account.
Here old password means you have to enter whatever password you remember for this account. You have to change it many times, so even if you don’t remember it correctly, you can remember and enter the one you used to use for your account, hit ‘Next’.
- Then, to recover your Gmail account, you will be asked to check your mobile device for the message you received from Google. You just need to press ‘Yes’ on your mobile device and then press the number you can see on the screen. If you don’t have access to your mobile device showing on the screen, click the ‘I don’t have a phone’ option to continue.
| Note – To use this option, you just need to access the old mobile device that you used to sign in to your Gmail account; Phone number is not required. |
- You will then 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, depending on the recovery information you’ve added to your Gmail account, you’ll be given the option to use your mobile 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 correctly answering the security question. , 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 the recovery or replacement email address or phone number associated with your account.
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Note – The options you get to recover your Gmail account depend on the information you added to your account when you set it up. If you have not added recovery information,9you will not be able to regain access to your account; Google will need some information to see if the actual owner of the account is the person trying to recover the account; the only thing you can do is create a new Gmail account. |
Learn more about Gmail:
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