Google Drive Password Recovery: How To Reset Password

Your Quick Answer:

To recover the account you can even use your last password if you remember it.

Make sure you are confident about the last password otherwise, it would not work.

Forgetting the password of the drive account is not a rare case, often lose our passwords or forget about it if haven’t written it down somewhere.

It is not the end of the world as there are ways to recover your google drive account like resetting the password which is the more common and used method.

The ways which are about to be mentioned will help you get into your drive account. You’ll get to know about the Gmail passwords work and how to recover them if lost. 

You can read this article if you want to set a password for the Google Drive files.

Google Drive Password Recovery:

🔴 How To Use:

Step 1: First, open your browser and go to Google Drive Password Recovery.

Step 2: Type in the email address associated with the Google Drive account for which you’ve forgotten the password.

Step 3: Once you’ve entered your email address, click on the “Proceed to Recover” button.

Once you’ve successfully verified your identity, you’ll be prompted to reset your password. Choose a new password that is secure but easy for you to remember.

Once you’ve set a new password, you’ll be able to log in to your Google Drive account using your updated credentials.

How To Reset Google Drive Password:

If you have forgotten your Google Drive password then you have to take a few steps and you can try different methods.

1. Recover your Username

Might be sometimes you type the wrong username to sign in. You first make sure it’s correct or try recovering it.

If you have forgotten the username of your Google account, you can quickly recover it by following some steps. The jotted steps below for here for you to follow and recover your username. But it’s often when users type their username incorrectly.

So, first of all, you need to make sure you’re typing your username correctly. Still, if you can’t think of the exact username, try and recover it quickly by visiting the Google username recovery page.

The following steps will help you know about it in detail:

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: To recover the username of your Gmail account, go to the Google username recovery page.

Step 2: There type the recovery mail or your phone no. linked with the mail account whose username you couldn’t remember and submit it to proceed.

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Step 3: Then you will be asked to type your first and last name that is associated with your mail account then submit it by clicking next.

Step 4: Google will send you a code for verification in the recovery mail or you will receive an SMS with the verification code if you have provided your recovery phone no. instead of recovery mail.

Step 5: Verify the code to proceed with the recovery of your username.

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Step 6: Then you’ll see the accounts flashing on your screen which linked with that particular recovered mail or phone no.

Step 7: Click on the account whose username you wanted to recover then get in using your password.

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Thus you have completed the process of recovering your mail if you have lost or forgotten the username of that account.

2. Resetting your Password

If you’re unable to remember your password and unlock your google drive account you can always reset your password. The forgot password option will help you with resetting it. Make sure when you’re resetting your password, set it to something strong.

To reset the password of your Google Account,

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: First of all, requires you to first click on the forget password option.

Step 2: After you have entered your email address, they will ask you for your password. On that page, you need to click on the forget password option to proceed further.

Step 3: Next, you will be asked to enter your password, but as you don’t remember your password click on forget password.

Forget Password

Step 4: After clicking on forgot password they’ll take you to another page where you’ll be asked to write the last password that you could remember which you have previously used to protect your account. You don’t need to write anything there. Below that box, you’ll find an option to try another way. Click on that option to continue with the process.

Step 5: Now you’ll see a notification flashing on your screen where you need to confirm that it was you who was trying to recover the account by clicking yes.

Step 6: Now that you’ve confirmed your identity, google has approved your sign-in requests. Then comes the password reset option.

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Step 7: Then it’ll ask you to reset your password. So now you just need to create a strong password, confirm it and save it by clicking save password.

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Always remember to use a password that is strong and couldn’t be cracked easily as it protects all kinds of your Google data. This password is used to log in to your Google Drive account or any other Google account connected and signed in with this mail address.

3. Reset with Last Remembered Password

This is another way to recover your Google account when you cannot remember your current password. Google allows you to log in using the last password that you’ve previously used to lock your account when you can’t recall your present password.

To reset with the last remembered password,

🔴 Steps To Follow:

Step 1: First, you have to enter your email address, and click on next to continue with the process.

Forget Password

Step 2: Now on the page where you need to enter your password to get in, click on the forgot password option >Try Another Way.

Try Another Way

Step 3: They’ll take you to the next page where you’ll be asked to write down your last password to log in. There write down your last password and click ‘Next’.

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Step 4: Then you’ll be asked to provide any mail address which you can access presently.

Step 5: After providing the mail, they’ll send you a verification code in that mail which you need to verify. Copy the code from there and paste it into the box flashing on your screen where you need to enter your code.

Step 6: After you have successfully verified your code they ask you to wait for three to five business days and below that, you can provide additional info like your date of birth that would be helpful in the recovery process.

Remember you can only use details that are related and provided to your mail account which you’re trying to recover and nothing irrelevant.

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