Forgetting password is the most common issue encountered by the users. It’s certainly not easy to memorize everything in this competitive world. One can forget a password but the essential thing that requires attention is one simple question that can we recover the password? The answer is yes because the password can be successfully recovered by just following a few steps. And the same procedure is to be followed in case a user wants to change their password.

Keeping into the mind that using the same password for manifold sites makes you vulnerable to cyber-attacks and these attacks can harm your information and data. For this reason it is required to change the password periodically. 

What if you do not remember the secret question that is required to be answered in order to recover the password? Here we have compiled two methods of dealing with such situation. Follow the subsequent methods in order to recover the account.

    1. Recovering Account Password Using Phone Number

Recovering password using the phone number is the initial process provided by Yahoo for a quick recovery. Follow the subsequent steps to recover the password using phone number. 

• Go to the Sign-in Helper of your Yahoo account.
• Endow with your valid email address or your phone number that you have used while creating the Yahoo account.
• In this section of recovery, you will see the last two numbers of your phone number.
• Click “Yes, text me a code button”, Yahoo will send a verification code to your phone number.
• On receiving the code enter the verification code in the field provided to show on the screen.
• Click on the Verify button, it might take few seconds to proceed.
• You will get access into the password reset section Click Continue to proceed.

Once all the process is done, you will move to the next section where you can retype a new password. This password will become a new Login password for your Yahoo account.

       2. Recovering Yahoo password with alternate email

Follow the subsequent steps to recover the Yahoo mail password with alternate email.

• Enter your email address and click “Yes, send me a code”.
• You will receive an email to your alternate email address and the message will contain the code for recovery of password.
• Enter the verification code that you got via email 
• Click Verify.
• From the list of accounts, select and connected to the email address you provided.
• Click Continue.

In case you've forgotten your Yahoo ID, select "I forgot Yahoo ID" in step 2 above. Enter your alternative email address, followed by the CAPTCHA code, and you'll receive an email with a guide on how to recover your account.

 In case the issue persists, contact technical support. 

 

Date:-2020-09-12 Author:- Nik john