Set up a recovery phone number or e-mail accost

To make sure y'all can get dorsum into your Google Business relationship if you ever can't sign in, add recovery information.

How recovery info helps you lot

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

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

Tip: If you change your recovery phone or email, Google may even so offer to send verification codes to your previous recovery phone number or email address for 7 days. If someone starts to utilize your account without your permission, this allows you lot to quickly secure your settings.

Add or alter a recovery telephone number

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

  2. At the summit, tap Security.

  3. Under "Means nosotros can verify it's you," tap Recovery phone. You might demand to sign in.

  4. From hither, y'all can:

  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Tip: If you delete your recovery telephone number, it may nevertheless be used for other Google services. To manage your phone numbers, go to your account.

Which number to utilise

Use a mobile phone that:

  • Gets text letters
  • Belongs simply to you
  • Yous utilize regularly and continue with you

Add or modify a recovery email address

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

  2. At the height, tap Security.

  3. Under "Means nosotros can verify it's y'all," tap Recovery e-mail. You might need to sign in.

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

  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Which email to use

Choose an email accost that:

  • You utilise regularly
  • Is unlike from the one you utilise to sign in to your Google Account

How recovery info is used

Recovery info helps you lot get back into your account and helps keep your business relationship secure.

Recovery telephone number

Hither are some means your recovery telephone number can be used:

  • To send you a lawmaking to get into your account if you're always locked out
  • To block someone from using your account without your permission
  • To go far easier for y'all to prove that an account is yours
  • To tell you if there's suspicious activity on your account

If your recovery phone number is the aforementioned every bit another telephone number yous've added to your account, it might exist used for other purposes. Larn more about how phone numbers are used.

Recovery email address

Hither are some ways your recovery electronic mail accost tin can exist used:

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

Fix problems

Can't sign in

Become to the account recovery page, and respond the questions equally all-time you can. These tips tin can help.

Use the business relationship recovery page if:

  • You forgot your password.
  • Someone changed your password.
  • Someone deleted your business relationship.
  • You can't sign in for another reason.

Tip: To make certain you lot're trying to sign in to the correct business relationship, endeavor recovering your username.

Can't change recovery info

If there's something different about how y'all're signing in, you might non have the option to change your recovery info. You tin can try once more:

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

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