How to find out Gmail passwords

Forgot your Gmail password and can’t access your email account anymore? Nice problem, especially if we consider the fact that nowadays having an email address that is always active and working is essential and not being able to access it, even for a few hours, can represent a considerable impediment. Fortunately, this is a situation that can be dealt with without particular difficulties. In fact, it is enough to have a minimum of commitment and attention to discover the Gmail password and resume regular use of the account.

How do you say? Don’t have a clue how to find out your Gmail account password? You have no reason to worry: I can explain to you what steps you need to take to succeed. No, don’t be alarmed, you won’t have to perform any Houdini-worthy operation. To proceed, in fact, simply follow the appropriate procedure for recovering the Gmail login credentials and provide some information that you connected to the account when it was created. In the following lines, I will also explain how to implement an “alternative” procedure that you can adopt to recover your Gmail password if you have saved it in your browser.

If you are interested in finding out how to find out the password of your Gmail email address, make yourself comfortable, take a few minutes of free time and concentrate on reading the following lines. I am sure that in the end you will be able to log back into your Gmail account and, why not, maybe you can also lend a hand to friends and acquaintances, in case they find themselves in the same conditions as you. Let it bet?

Index

• How to recover Gmail password
  • Computer
  • Smartphones and tablets
• How to recover Gmail password without changing it
• How to find out others’ Gmail passwords

How to recover Gmail password

Before explaining all the various steps you will need to take to recover your Gmail password, there is one thing you should keep in mind. By carrying out the password recovery procedure I mentioned in the introduction of the article, you will not have your old password back but you can set a new one to re-enter your e-mail account. Having made this necessary premise, I would say that we can proceed.

Computer

To recover your Gmail password from your computer, the first thing you need to do is click here to connect to the Gmail login web page. Subsequently, indicate the email address of your account in the appropriate text field and press the Next button. At this point, click on the Forgot your password? Link  . and provide the last password you remember. If you don’t remember any, press the link Try another method until you are offered a password recovery method that is congenial to you.

In my example, I’ll use an alternate email address that I had previously set up on my Gmail account as a recovery method. If you are offered a different one, follow the simple instructions you see on the screen to recover your account.

If you have also been proposed to recover your account using an alternative email address, press the Send button and wait for the account recovery code to be sent to the address in question. Then open the message containing the verification code, type it in the Enter code text field and press the Next button.

Finally, fill in the Create password and Confirm fields with the new access key you want to use to access the inbox of your Gmail account and press the blue Change password button to save the changes. Finally, press the Continue link on Gmail to access your account and that’s it.

I remind you that, by changing the password to access Gmail, the one through which you log into your Google account will also be changed. The Google account and the Gmail account, in fact, coincide with each other and the modification of the access credentials for one implies the modification of the access credentials for the other as well (and vice versa).

Smartphones and tablets

Would you like to try to recover your Gmail account password directly from smartphones and tablets? To do this, start the Gmail app on your Android or iOS device, press the Login item located at the bottom, tap the Google item from the menu that opens and consent to the use of google.com to log in. Now, provide the email address of the Gmail account whose password you want to recover (or tap on your name and surname, if you had saved the login information), press the Forgot password link ? and type in the appropriate text field the last password you remember.

If you don’t remember any in particular, tap the Try another method link until you are offered a password recovery method that suits you. If, as in my case, you have opted for recovery using an alternative email address, press the Send button and wait for the numerical code for account recovery to be sent to you via email. As soon as you receive it, type the code in question in the Enter code text field and tap the Next button.

Next, indicate the new password you want to use to access Gmail by writing it in the text fields Create a password and Confirm and press the Change password button to save the changes made. The changes, of course, will also affect your Google account, since, as I said earlier, it is closely related to the Gmail account.

How to recover Gmail password without changing it

If you want to try to recover your Gmail password without changing it, know that you can do it simply by extrapolating the login data saved in the browser. Obviously, as you may have already guessed, you can only take this “path” if you have actually saved the login data of your Gmail account on one of the browsers you use to access the Internet.

• Google Chrome– if you use the desktop version of Chrome, press the ⋮ button at the top right, select the Settings item, click on the Password item in the People section, locate the password for Gmail or the Google account and press the symbol of ‘ eyes to discover it (may be asked to indicate your computer’s user account password). If you use the mobile version of Chrome, you can be able to view the passwords saved in the browser by pressing the button (…) and then pressing the Settings> Password> Gmail items. At this point, tap on the password text field to show it (you may be asked to enter your device’s unlock code).
• Safari– if you use the version of Safari for  Mac, go to the Safari> Preferences …  menu (top left), select the Password tab from the window that opens, type the password of your macOS user account in the appropriate text field and find the password for your Gmail account. On iPhone and iPad, go to Settings> Password / Password and account> App and website password, provide the Apple ID password or authenticate via Touch ID / Face ID and locate the Gmail password.
• Mozilla Firefox – from the desktop, press the button (≡)  located at the top right, click on the  Options>  Preferences items, select the Privacy and security item from the left sidebar, press the Saved accesses button  … located in the Modules and passwords section, locate the Google account whose access you have saved and press the Show password button located at the bottom right and then click Yes. From mobile, press the  (…) / (≡) button, select the Settings item from the box that opens and go to the menuPrivacy> Access.
• Microsoft Edge– presses the button (…)  located at the top right, select the items Settings> View advanced settings> Manage password and locate the Gmail account whose password you want to know.
• Internet Explorer– presses on the icon of ‘ gear at the top right, select the entry Internet Options from the menu that pops up, went to the card content, presses the button  Settings annexed to section  AutoComplete and presses the button  Password Manager to detect Gmail password saved.

If you want more information on how to recover passwords from the browser, read the guide I dedicated to the topic. For the future, in order to avoid wasting precious time in trying to discover Gmail passwords, I suggest you use one of the appropriate resources that I indicated in my guide on how to manage passwords, to keep the key without problems. access to your Google account and more. Also because, as I will explain better shortly, saving passwords in the browser is not exactly the best security!

How to find out others’ Gmail passwords

Are you wondering if it is possible to discover other people’s Gmail passwords, perhaps because you are afraid that someone might sneak into your account without your knowledge? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. The so-called crackers, or “bad hackers” who exploit their computer knowledge for illegal purposes, use various techniques to understand the login credentials of other users.

One of these is to steal the login credentials saved in browsers. As I showed you in the previous chapter, you don’t have to have who knows what computer skills to exploit browser vulnerabilities to your advantage. Therefore, avoid storing passwords in the browsers you use on your computer and mobile devices if you want to avoid problems. Much better to use a good password manager, such as LastPass or 1Password, which I told you about in another guide.

Furthermore, I recommend that you set a secure password and enable two-factor authentication ( more info here ): this last setting is particularly important, because it prevents malicious people from accessing your account even if they know the access password ( since they cannot know the secondary key that is generated at login).

If you want to learn more about these and others related to computer security, I invite you to consult the guides in which I explain in-depth how to defend your PC from hackers and how not to be spied on your mobile phone: there you will find many other tips that will surely come back to you. useful to prevent someone from sneaking into your accounts (Gmail and more).