How To Change Gmail Password

What is Gmail? Gmail is a Google-provided free web-based email service. We can send and receive email using a google account. We need to set up a Gmail account before we can use this service. Gmail can be accessed over the web or using third-party apps that use the POP or IMAP protocols to synchronise email content. Gmail launched as a limited beta version on 1 April 2004 and finished its testing phase on 7 July 2009.

Gmail has a storage capacity of 15 gigabytes as of today. Users can receive emails with attachments up to 50 megabytes in capacity and send emails up to 25 megabytes in size. Larger files can be sent, and files from Google Drive can be inserted within the message. Gmail offers a search-friendly layout as well as a “conversation view” that resembles an Internet forum. The service is known among website developers for being one of the first to use Ajax.

How to update your Gmail password is as follows:

Follow these steps to change your Gmail password.

1. Open a browser window and type gmail.com.
2. Enter your Gmail username and password.
3. Click the login button after entering your gmail id and password.
4. In the right-hand corner of this window, click the setting button.
5. A configuration page will appear.
6. There are few menus on the top side. Account may be found here, and you can import it here as well.
7. From the drop-down menu, select Change Account Settings and then Change Password.
8. When we click the Change Password button, we are prompted to enter our password again.
9. Enter the password and click the next button to open a window that looks like this: 
10. Here you can enter a new password and change it by clicking the Change Password button.
11. The password for your Gmail account has been successfully changed.

How to change the recovery option for your Gmail password

In some cases, we may need to update the Gmail password recovery option. follow these steps exactly as directed.

1. Open a browser window and type gmail.com.
2. Enter your Gmail username and password.
3. Click the login button after entering your gmail id and password.
4. In the right-hand corner of this window, click the setting button.
5. A configuration page will appear.
6. There are few menus on the top side. Account may be found here, and you can import it here as well.
7. Select Change Password Recovery from the drop-down menu and click here.
8. After clicking, we’ll be taken to a new Security page, similar to this one, where we’ll click the Get started button.
9. We now have three options.

• Your device – It displays how many devices you have logged in with.
• Recent security option- It displays recent activity in Gmail.
• It has a sign-in and recovery option. Click this button to sign in and restore your password.

10. When we select the third option, a new window appears, similar to this one.
11. We can update the phone number and recovery email address by using the edit option.