Set upwardly a recovery telephone number or electronic mail address

To brand certain you lot tin can get back into your Google Account if you always can't sign in, add recovery information.

How recovery info helps you

A recovery phone number or electronic mail address helps you reset your password if:

  • You forget your password
  • Someone else is using your account
  • You're locked out of your business relationship for another reason

Tip: If you alter your recovery phone or email, Google may still offer to send verification codes to your previous recovery telephone number or email address for 7 days. If someone starts to use your account without your permission, this allows you lot to apace secure your settings.

Add or change a recovery phone number

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open up your device'due south Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the height, tap Security.

  3. Under "Means nosotros tin can verify information technology's yous," tap Recovery phone. Yous might need to sign in.

  4. From hither, you can:

  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Tip: If you delete your recovery telephone number, it may still exist used for other Google services. To manage your phone numbers, go to your business relationship.

Which number to use

Use a mobile phone that:

  • Gets text messages
  • Belongs only to you
  • You use regularly and keep with you

Add or alter a recovery email accost

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the peak, tap Security.

  3. Under "Ways nosotros can verify information technology's you lot," tap Recovery electronic mail. You might demand to sign in.

  4. From here, yous tin can:
    • Add a recovery e-mail.
    • Modify or delete your recovery e-mail.

  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Which email to use

Choose an email address that:

  • You use regularly
  • Is dissimilar from the one you use to sign in to your Google Business relationship

How recovery info is used

Recovery info helps you lot get back into your account and helps go on your account secure.

Recovery phone number

Here are some ways your recovery phone number can exist used:

  • To ship you a code to get into your account if y'all're ever locked out
  • To cake someone from using your account without your permission
  • To make it easier for you to prove that an account is yours
  • To tell yous if there'south suspicious activity on your account

If your recovery phone number is the same as some other phone number y'all've added to your account, it might be used for other purposes. Acquire more about how phone numbers are used.

Recovery email address

Here are some ways your recovery e-mail accost tin can be used:

  • To confirm your username after y'all create an email accost
  • To help you lot get into your account if you lot forget your password or can't sign in for another reason
  • To let you know if you're about to run out of storage space
  • To tell yous if there's suspicious activity on your account

Fix bug

Can't sign in

Get to the account recovery page, and respond the questions equally best you lot can. These tips can help.

Use the business relationship recovery page if:

  • You lot forgot your password.
  • Someone changed your password.
  • Someone deleted your account.
  • Yous tin't sign in for another reason.

Tip: To make sure you're trying to sign in to the right account, endeavor recovering your username.

Tin can't alter recovery info

If at that place's something different near how you're signing in, you might not have the option to change your recovery info. You can endeavour again:

  • From a device you normally use to sign in.
  • From a location where y'all normally sign in.
  • The following calendar week from the device that yous're currently using.

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