Gmail is the most popular emailing service with many features and settings that makes it the first choice of users. Many times, it happens that the user is not able to login to the email account which may be due to various reasons. When you have forgotten your password and cannot access your account, continue reading on this article. Gmail gives you three options to recover forgotten Gmail password i.e. recovery through phone number, recovery through email account and recovery by answering security questions. Is you don’t have access to your linked phone number, then you can reset Gmail password without phone number.
Methods to recover forgotten Gmail password
· Go to Gmail login page.
· Enter your email address.
· Click on forgot password.
· You will be now redirected to Gmail password recovery page.
· You will be asked to enter the last password you remember. If you cannot remember it, click on try another way.
· The next option is to enter the phone number linked to your account. and click on send.
· If you don’t have access to the phone number also, try next option.
· Another way is to enter the recovery email address. Type your recovery email address and click on send.
· Open your recovery email address and search for the message from Gmail.
· Open the email from Google team and click on the recovery link provided.
· Now create a new password and re-enter it to confirm. Make sure you make a strong password by combining letters, numbers and special characters.
· If you don’t have access to recovery email account also, then go for answering security questions. These are the questions you have chosen at the time of account creation. Answer them correctly. Questions may be like- name of your elder sibling, last school you attended or your pets name. After answering them you will be transferred to password recovery page.
· Create a new password now and re-enter it to confirm.
To be on safe side next time, always create a strong password and never share it with someone else. Whenever you open your account in somebody else’s device, don’t forget to log out.
