Change Phone Number Gmail
It is possible that you have purchased a new phone number, which means you need to update it with your Google account. This will make sure that you can recover your account without any problem if required. How to Change Phone number in Gmail. Fortunately, changing your phone number in Gmail is super easy.
Now, click on the edit button.Step 9. You’ll be redirected to a new page that will seek your Gmail password to ensure authenticity.
Enter your password in the box and click on ‘ Next’ button.Step 10. You’ll again arrive on the ‘ Phone Number‘ page. Click on the edit button, as shown in Image on Step 8 above.Step 11. Click on ‘ Update Number’. Enter a new phone number in the given text box and click on ‘ Next’.Step 13. To replace phone number on Gmail, Google will send a verification code on the entered number.
Click on ‘Get Code’ option that lies in the bottom right corner of the screen.Step 14. Enter the received code in the given text box and click on Verify. Your phone number would have changed. You can update phone number in Gmail by following these steps seamlessly.That’s it.
Now you have successfully updated your Phone number on Gmail Account.
How can I change my mobile number in my Hotmail/Outlook.com account? I can’t find any information about “mobile number” and I’ve had some problems with this account. I made this account 15 years ago and I can’t remember the mobile number I gave back then.The security features associated with Microsoft accounts – and almost any Hotmail.com or Outlook.com email address is a Microsoft account – have been giving people fits lately.Because account hacking has become such a massive problem, particularly with Hotmail accounts, Microsoft has tightened security quite a bit. Unfortunately, people are now finding that security codes are getting sent to phones and email addresses they no longer have.Keeping that security information up to date is critical. I’ll walk you through the steps to update it.
Become a and go ad-free! Your Microsoft accountAs I mentioned, from Microsoft’s perspective you don’t really have a “Hotmail” or “Outlook.com” account. What you have is a “Microsoft account” that happens to use a Hotmail, MSN, Live, or Outlook.com email address as the identifier.So what that means is that we’ll be changing the security information associated with your Microsoft account.Here’s the easiest way:Log in to your email account.
Once in, click on your display name in the upper right corner:Click on Account settings. Note that this has actually transitioned from Outlook.com to “Microsoft account”. This displays basic information about the account.Changing SecurityClick on Manage advanced security in the lower left.Because you’re about to make a security-related change, you’ll be asked to verify that you are the rightful account holder. That happens by sending a code to one of your previously configured alternate addresses or phone numbers.This prevents a who happens to gain access to your password from making security-related changes to your account – a very common activity.The problem, of course, is what happens if you don’t have any alternate phone numbers or email addresses listed, or those that are listed are no longer valid or in your control.Then things get difficult. Account verification without alternatesSelect “ I don’t have any of these”.The message changes, letting you know you’re about to embark on a slightly more involved process to maintain account access.Click Next.This would be a great time to have a recovery code. Unfortunately, most people in this situation haven’t set one up.
It’s something you have to set up before you need it. (, by the way, but you’ll have to pass the very same validation process we’re encountering here before you can.)Assuming you don’t have a recovery code, click No.You can now add a phone number or an alternate email address as your security information, though it will come with a caveat we’ll encounter shortly.
Your alternate email address is critical should you forget your password or lose access to your Hotmail account. I'll show you how to set or change it. If you don't have access to your account recovery phone number or alternate email address, there is a process you can go through to regain access to your account - maybe. 'I want to close my Hotmail account' is a knee-jerk reaction to many account problems. It's easy, and I'll show you how, but it also may be pointless or even harmful.
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Making a new Hotmail or Outlook.com account isn't as obvious as many think. First, you need to make the option visible - by signing out.Footnotes & references: Logging in to your account is how Microsoft verifies that you are who you say you are. Like I said, account theft is rampant. If you were able to make changes without actually logging in well, then anyone could do it, which would only lead to more account theft. If you can’t log in, seePosted: April 15, 2015in:This is an update to an article originally posted July 10, 2014Shortlink:Tagged:,. New Here?Let me suggest my to get you started.Of course I strongly recommend you - there's a ton of information just waiting for you.Finally, if you just can't find what you're looking for,! Leo Who?I'm and I've been playing with computers since I took a required programming class in 1976.
I spent over 18 years as a software engineer at Microsoft, and after 'retiring' in 2001 I started in 2003 as a place to help you find answers and become more confident using this amazing technology at our fingertips. Wow – how did you go straight to the security reset page? When I test my Hotmail account and click on “Security and Password” I have to go through a screen to use my already-set recovery email, or phone, to get a code to proceed to the security settings screen.There is an option to select for “I don’t have these any more.” Of course I, personally, have several options set for recovering my Hotmail account. But I went through the recovery screens all the same just to see what would happen.Turned out it was fairly simple as long as I took the time to read the instructions on each page. Microsoft asked me for a secondary email. I typed it in and was immediately sent a verification email which allowed me to verify that that account as active. Reading the instructions let me know that I would have to wait 30 days for access to the security reset page – apparently no hacker is willing to wait that long.
I then had to log back into my Hotmail account and verify that I had requested access to replace my security information. Of course I said, “Yes.” I then had access to all my emails and everything, just have to wait 30 days to reset my security information.And just for a good laugh because I already had my proper security information set correctly I immediately received a text message and two emails to verify that it was indeed me updating my account. I went ahead and used the verification button in one of the emails to bypass the 30 day waiting period and went on happily with my life.Moral of the story listen to Leo and keep your recovery information up to date on all accounts!.
I have a serious issue with this mobile phone number used for security confirmation I am traveling extensively between Europe USA, Canada, and South America and have a pay as you go contract for each of them because it is MUCH CHEAPER, than having a single permanent number. My cell phones are not smart!! And my iPad is only WiFi.All in all this set up is definitely not ideal for double security protocol.Microsoft is not the only company assuming that you have a cellphone attached to your hand. Many more sites are now requiring this extra step for their own security.
Any alternative solution?And anyway, why assume that everybody has a cell phone?And on the topic of mobility, the banks are going one step further, not only do you need a cell phone ton confirm/verify whatever, but some of them require you to carry around either a code generator which is matched to your account, or a small device similar to a calculator, with a card like a credit card. You enter the card into the calculator, you type your account number and you get a code on the display that you have to enter into your computer to access your account.Our lifestyle involves staying two or three month in different continents/countries. Cell phones and security devices. Are growing while laptops and tablets are getting smaller:-)))Maybe you have some comments on that!I enjoy your notes!Jacques. We all get our button pushed from time to time and I’m certainly no exception.
However, I learned many years ago with windows 3.0, one must be patient, breath slowly and read and follow all instructions. If that didn’t work, well you slept on it till the next day! Sometimes a nap would do the trick! Jeanine, I’m sure it didn’t demand you do anything, only asked. The link Leo provided is spot on and I hope it helped you change your password.I have followed Leo for many years and with his easy to understand advice, I’ve dug out of many a deep dark holeThanks to you Leo for teaching me the importance to backing up and imaging my systems!
Jeanine, be calm, slow down and you will get through this. I got caught out earlier last month by Google. Why would anyone from England go on holiday in Peru, they thought? Despite the fact that I have an alternative e-mail, Google insisted that the only way to prove I was me was to send me a text. Apparently, they don’t know that a phone (not smart, doesn’t take pictures, hasn’t got GPS, just a phone for talking to people with) that isn’t designed for use in North or the East coast of South America just don’t work there.
So to use my Google account on my laptop, I have to change my password. Yes Leo, I know that changing passwords often is a GOOD THING but to add insult to injury, they then refuse to believe that I would be in Amsterdam a few days later on the way home. This paranoia is getting too much. Hello,My name is Marta, I am from Spain and I am living in China. In this country most of the websites are blocked so I have the need to use VPN from different countries.Therefore, my hotmail account has been blocked. I created this account 14 years ago and I have been very happy since then, Now I can’t have access because the security questions are from the year 2000 and I was 14 years old.Please, help me recover my account.I have lived in the US for the past four years and used my e-mail account which is now expired as well as the telephone number.SO I can’t provide enough information. What else can I do?I am flying to Spain on Sunday for Christmas and the confirmation number is there, I need it by then, please.I am also waiting for interview answers and it is very crucial that I have access there.I am in tears, I don’t know if I am hired for that job, and I won’t be able to visit my family during Christmas.
So Leo do you think it would be possible for folks who are cut out of their Hotmail accounts to open an account on a country specific server, and then retrieve their Hotmail emails through POP3 or IMAP interface. For instance, a US person could use Yahoo or Gmail or any other in-country online service. Set up a POP3 access to their Hotmail, and then retrieve their emails through the Gmail or Yahoo account. I’m thinking that Hotmail may allow that to go through. But someone would have to try it out to see if it works.Alternately, why not contact a local webdesigner or tech person from their hometown, and have that person access their account and set up access through a server that will not block them. Seems like it would work unless I’m missing a critical piece of how Hotmail is blocking the accounts.I’m curious what you think!. This is such a great example of how ridiculous and difficult all things microsoft-based are.
I am being given a 30 day waiting period to change my password (for the 2nd time I might add) unless of course I want to use my old cell number as a verification (which I have also been unable to change for months). So instead of being able to change my password to keep my information safe, someone will have at least 30 days to dig around in my inbox and try to find anything they can to steal my identity or reek havoc. Thanks microsoft and hotmail. You’ve always been so simple, helpful, and secure. I cannot get into my account.
It says my password or id is incorrect. When trying to recover it with the options of sending it to my e mail address or my phone I must fill in the missing numbers in phone number or missing letters in my e mail address.
The problem is that neither the phone number nor the e mail address correspond with my e mail address or phone number. If asked for a answer on the security question, my answer is incorrect.
It is as if my e mail address is taken over by someone else. Please help, I am losing business. It’s a little late to do the things described in these articles, but they will help to prevent it from happening in the future.If you have someone back home who can log in to Hotmail for you, you might be able to have them set up a recovery email address which you can use to verify and access your email. Just be sure you use an email provider which doesn’t have the same stringent lockout procedures as Microsoft. I have several recovery email accounts associated with my Microsoft Mail accounts.
One is softhome.net. It’s an extremely limited service which I only use for recovery addresses.I eventually stopped using my Hotmail account because of this and other frustrations. I use GMail and a personal registered domain. I have plain GIVEN UP. Occasionally we customers MUST change our phone #.MSN has made it incredibly difficult and so very very very time-consuming to edit my phone#.For the past few days I have been on a 30-day “probationary period”.
During this time of shame, in order to see my E-mail, I must type out my Live.com e-mail address and also my password. ( “Keep me logged in” does not work) Then comes a couple of pages of rationale on their part before I am allowed in. Occasionally not, which is why I write this. I haven’t seen my e-mail at all this a.m.I’ve had two e-sessions with the MSN HELP dept., Both quite frustrating and very very time-consuming.Surely there is a better way.But, whatever. I have given up. I am transferring everything to a much better system.Hotmail shutdown caused me to lose some valuable pictures.
Now @Live.com is holding customers in similar contempt. Hi leo, great atricleIs is just me or is it TOO EASY to just change the number associated with the account, for example cant a hacker use his/hers mobile number to get the code and after the 30 days gain access to security details.Hotmail does have a message the next time you log in confirming changes and telling you what to do if it was not you who requested the code etc. But what if you have not checked your e-mail within that 30 day period and you are none the wiser the next time you log in, say 2 months later.Thanks in advance. Hi I recently was hacked with a virus and wanted to change passwords. A friend helped me to change phone # from home phone to my iphone6 number.for recovery I guess.
I had to wait the 30 day waiting period (which is up today) so I can change my password for my email account(Microsoft) Our home computer has everything in my husbands name and passwords and such. By doing the phone change security is that going to or has it already affected my husbands account or any thing other than my personal info for my email, phone etc?? If so is there a way to cancel the whole phone change thing? All I wanted to do was change my email password and what ever my friend did I’m afraid I am changing my husbands info on our account! As I said our account is in his name. And I didn’t want to modify any except change my phone number preference and my password. Can you help me?
I’m a nervouse wreck! Hi, I cannot follow this process as I stupidly registered my landline in the ‘text to’ when I set it up. It wont let me change it to a different (mobile number) without a verification code, and there is nowhere to click to choose a voice message option. Am going round in circles as it just keeps saying ‘you cant access this site at the moment as it requires a security code’ and then it wont let me enter a code because I cant receive the verification. (This has all happened because I am trying unlink my son’s xbox stuff from my email, so he tried to change the name and now its all gone wrong and affected everything! He is now grown up, so we want to link different email and payment stuff to it. Turns out we can only link it to a brand new account, but if we transfer it he will lose all his gaming status, wins and powerups etc) In the meantime I cannot change the security info i need to change because of this ‘circular’ security default.
Can't Change Phone Number Gmail
Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks. I am unable to log into my email. I am in alot trouble now because it’s my primary mail. The reason is i had changed my number recently and i don’t have access to it.
Now i given the mail address of my friend and they sent code there when i entered that code and give me a form which i had completed more then 3 times but i cannot recover my account. The problem is they ask name the email adressess to whom you sent email recently but i don’t remember it.
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