Set upward a recovery phone number or e-mail accost

To make sure you lot can go back into your Google Account if you ever can't sign in, add together recovery information.

How recovery info helps you

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

  • Yous forget your countersign
  • Someone else is using your account
  • Y'all're locked out of your account for another reason

Tip: If y'all change your recovery phone or email, Google may still offering to ship verification codes to your previous recovery phone number or email accost for 7 days. If someone starts to use your business relationship without your permission, this allows you to quickly secure your settings.

Add or alter a recovery telephone number

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up your device'south Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Business relationship.

  2. At the top, tap Security.

  3. Under "Ways nosotros tin verify information technology'due south you," tap Recovery phone. You might need to sign in.

  4. From hither, you can:
  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

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

Which number to use

Use a mobile phone that:

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

Add or change a recovery e-mail accost

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

  2. At the summit, tap Security.

  3. Nether "Ways we can verify it'south you," tap Recovery email. You might need to sign in.

  4. From here, y'all can:
    • Add together a recovery electronic mail.
    • Alter or delete your recovery email.
  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Which e-mail to use

Choose an email address that:

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

How recovery info is used

Recovery info helps yous get back into your account and helps keep your account secure.

Recovery telephone number

Hither are some ways your recovery phone number can be used:

  • To send you a code to go into your account if yous're ever locked out
  • To cake someone from using your account without your permission
  • To get in easier for you 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 same as another telephone number you've added to your account, it might exist used for other purposes. Learn more about how phone numbers are used.

Recovery electronic mail address

Here are some means your recovery email address can be used:

  • To ostend your username afterwards you create an email accost
  • To help you lot go into your account if yous forget your password or can't sign in for another reason
  • To let you know if you're near to run out of storage infinite
  • To tell you if there's suspicious activity on your account

Prepare problems

Can't sign in

Go to the account recovery page, and answer the questions every bit best you can. These tips can help.

Use the account recovery page if:

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

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

Tin can't modify recovery info

If there's something dissimilar about how you're signing in, you lot might not take the choice to change your recovery info. You can attempt over again:

  • From a device you normally use to sign in.
  • From a location where you normally sign in.
  • The post-obit week from the device that you're currently using.

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