Have you lost your Gmail password? It is possible to regain access in a few simple steps if you forget or need enhanced security.
Depending on your personal or professional activities, the passwords for the services you use on a daily basis are undoubtedly the most valuable ones you have. This is all the more the case for services like Google where activities are centralized (Chrome, Meet, Drive, Calendar, Maps, etc.) and more particularly Gmail which constitutes the heart of your personal and work space.
So imagine the anguish of losing your precious password inadvertently or by force? There are also a multitude of reasons why you might have lost a password, however valuable it may be, apart from simply forgetting it. You might simply want to change your password to strengthen the security of your Gmail account following a suspected hack. We can also think about the fact that you would have lost a mobile device with which you accessed your Gmail account and that changing your password to protect your account would be wise, even essential.
However, you should know that Google does not allow you to recover an old password once 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 to recover a Gmail password?
Here are the steps to follow to recover your account. You will be able to reuse all Google services, including Gmail.
- Click on this link from 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 must then enter the validation code that Google sends you by SMS (if you have indicated a telephone number to recover your account) or by email to an associated email address. By SMS, the validation code consists of 6 digits and begins with G-.
- You are then prompted to enter a new password. Make sure to secure it as much as possible, preferably with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a symbol.
How to regain access to Gmail without changing a lost password?
As seen above, this manipulation is generally impossible. In the best case, it is possible that it was saved in a password manager, either directly integrated into a browser, or by third-party software like Dashlane or 1Password.
In case you have not used any, there is software like a certain Google Password Decrypter (on Windows only) which use a multitude of techniques to find stored passwords and then return them to their owners. In any case, we advise you first to follow the official Google procedure to recover your Gmail account by generating a new password.
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