If now that you spend more time at home you have decided to re-enter that free time consuming social network, you may have encountered a fairly common problem: you do not remember your user’s password . Rest assured, there are ways to regain access to the account, so we are going to leave you with several solutions so that you can like your friends’ posts again.
Facebook password problems
The day you registered on Facebook you should have used an email and a password. Over time, the service may also have asked you for your mobile phone number, a detail that, if you did not complete and are now trying to recover your password, you may be regretting it enormously.
And it is that there can be several cases in a situation like this. If you need to enter your Facebook account, and you do not know the password, the service will ask for your email to send you a recovery link. To do this, you just have to access the Facebook account recovery panel and enter your email.
Once complete, the service will identify the existence of this email in its database and offer you the options available to recover your password, which is usually the following:
- Use Google account : If you have previously linked your Google account with the service, you will have the opportunity to use your Google account as a method of recovering your password so that you can change it quickly.
- Send code by email : This method is the most common, since it will send an email to the email account that is related to the profile. You will receive an email with a link for you to access and change the password for a new one.
- Send code by SMS : The account unlocking code will be sent via SMS to the mobile number that you had registered in your account.
How can I retrieve my Facebook password if I don’t have access to the email?
If for some reason you do not have access to the email you registered with on Facebook, the solutions to recover the password go through the other two remaining ones. Either you access with your Google account (if you have it linked), or you use the phone number so that you can receive an SMS with the relevant code.
To do this, on the account recovery website, instead of entering your email, use the phone number you have registered on FAcebook to proceed with sending the SMS.
What if I don’t have an associated phone number?
Here comes the bad news. If you do not have a phone number associated with your Facebook account, you will be left with no options to recover the password, since Facebook will have no way to reliably corroborate your identity, so the only thing left is to forget about the account and start a new life on Facebook.
How do I save my mobile number on Facebook?
You may not be too happy to enter your phone number on the social network. We understand you. According to the official information of Facebook, only you will be able to see the information of your phone number, so you should not worry about a possible leak of it.
This data is used, in addition to recovering the password, to receive notifications by SMS, although indirectly it is used to receive more specific and defined friendship suggestions and announcements. It is quite personal, but if you tend to be a disaster with passwords, you may have no other to avoid problems in the future.
To enter your phone number in the Facebook profile we will have to do the following:
- Login to your Facebook account with your profile
- Access the Configuration panel.
- And click on the Mobile section.
- Select the option add phone number and save the changes.
Your mobile phone will be registered in your account, so from now on you can log in and recover the password with that information.
Trusted friends
Just like we do with house keys, we can always leave a copy with a trusted neighbor to be able to enter the house in case of theft or loss. Well, the same thing happens with Facebook. In the configuration panel, within the section Security and login , you will find the option Trusted friends , a function that will allow us to recover the password through the account of one of our friends on the network.
In order for you to use this in the future, you must enter the name of the friends you want who can recover your password if necessary.
