Set up a recuperation telephone number or email address
To ensure you can get once again into your Google Record in the event that you at any point can't sign in, add recuperation data.
How recovery information can help You can reset your password using a recovery phone number or email address if:
You fail to remember your secret phrase
Another person is utilizing your record
You're kept out of your record for another explanation
Tip: Google may still offer to send verification codes to your previous recovery phone number or email address for seven days even if you change your recovery phone or email address. You can quickly secure your settings if someone starts using your account without your permission.
Open the Settings app on your Android device, select Google, and then select Manage your Google Account to add or modify a recovery phone number.
Tap Security at the very top.
Under "Ways we can confirm it's you," tap Recuperation telephone. It could be necessary to log in.
You are able to:
Add a phone for recovery.
Change your backup device: Close to your number, tap Alter.
Get rid of your recovery device: Tap Delete Delete when your number is displayed.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Tip: Your recovery phone number may still be used for other Google services even if you delete it. Go to your account to manage your phone numbers.
Which phone number to use Make use of a mobile phone that:
Gets instant messages
Has a place just with you
You use routinely and keep with you
Add or change a recuperation email address
On your Android telephone or tablet, open your gadget's Settings application and afterward Google and afterward Deal with your Google Record.
Tap Security at the very top.
Under "Ways we can confirm it's you," tap Recuperation email. It could be necessary to log in.
You are able to:
Add an email for recovery.
Change or erase your recuperation email.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
Which email address to use Select an address that:
How recovery information is used Recovery information helps you get back into your account and helps keep your account secure. Is different from the one you use to sign in to your Google Account.
Go to the account recovery page and answer the questions as best you can. Recovery phone number Recovery email address Fix problems Can't sign in These tips can help.
Utilize the record recuperation page if:
Your password has been lost.
Your password was changed by someone.
Somebody erased your record.
There is another reason why you can't sign in.
Tip: To ensure you're attempting to sign in to the right record, have a go at recuperating your username.
Can't change recovery information If the way you sign in is different, you might not be able to change your recovery information. You can try once more:
from the device you typically use to log in.
From a place where you ordinarily sign in.
the following week from the same device you're using now.
