Have you lost your Gmail password? If you forget it or need increased security, you can regain access in a few simple steps.
Depending on your personal or professional activities, the passwords for the services you use every day are undoubtedly the most valuable you have. This is even more true for services like Google, where activities are centralized (Chrome, Meet, Drive, Calendar, Maps, etc.) and especially for Gmail, which is the heart of your personal and business space.
So imagine the agony of losing your valuable password accidentally or forcefully? There are also a variety of reasons why you may have lost a password, no matter how valuable it may be, other than simply forgetting it. After a suspected hacking attack, you may simply want to change your password to increase the security of your Gmail account. We can also consider that you had lost a mobile device that you used to access your Gmail account and that changing your password would be useful, even essential, to protect your account.
However, you should know that Google does not allow you to recover an old password once it is lost. In any case, if you have the account address, Google will always ask you to enter a new password to overwrite the old one.
How can I recover a Gmail password?
Here are the steps you need to follow to recover your account. You can reuse all Google services, including Gmail.
- Click this link in an internet browser.
- Enter the email address affected by the lost password.
- Then enter the last password you remember, even if it is not boFn.
- You’ll then need to enter the validation code that Google will send to you via SMS (if you provided a phone number to recover your account) or via email to an associated email address. Via SMS, the validation code consists of 6 digits and begins with G-.
- You will then be asked to enter a new password. Be sure to secure it as best as possible, preferably with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a symbol.
How do I regain access to Gmail without changing a lost password?
As seen above, this manipulation is generally impossible. In the best case scenario, it’s possible that it was stored in a password manager, either built directly into a browser or by third-party software like Dashlane or 1Password.
If you haven’t used one, there is software like a specific one Google password decryptor (Windows only), which use a variety of techniques to find saved passwords and then return them to their owners. In any case, we recommend that you first follow the official Google procedure to recover your Gmail account by generating a new password.
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