How to recover Gmail password - amarajonas’s diary

Two ways to recover Gmail password

Google enables its account users to set recovery options like recovery phone number, security questions, and secondary email address. Hence, it is not a hard-hitting job to recover a lost or hacked account. Also, Google has a responsive and user-friendly account security department which helps the unfortunate users to get their lost account back. Find how to recover Gmail password in two different ways. Today we will talk about the account recovery via security questions and recovery phone number. First, we will discuss account recovery via security questions, and then Gmail password recovery via SMS.

Answer security questions to recover your Gmail password

Open your preferred web browser and launch the official Account Recovery page of Gmail
It will insist you to choose I don’t know my password
After that enter your Gmail address then, Click on Continue
Navigate to the Verify your identity section
Here you will need to answer the set of security questions associated to your account
Try to provide accurate answers as much as you can
The accuracy of your provided answers will insist Google give you the chance of setting a new password
Make a new password and enter it
Confirm the new password by entering it for the second time
Recover your Gmail password

Get a text message to recover your Gmail password

Type https//g.co/recover in the browsing bar of your web browser and open Google’s official account recovery help page. For Gmail password recovery via SMS, you will be insisted to enter the recovery phone number. Then you need to enter the email address that is required to be recovered and hit the Next icon. Google will then ask you to send a verification code to the entered mobile number. Allow Google by clicking on Yes. You will shortly get a verification code which is actually a one-time password; enter it to make your Gmail account login. Set a new password after you logged into the account.