If y'all forgot your Apple ID password

If you have issues when you try to sign in with your Apple ID countersign, employ these steps to reset it and regain admission to your account.

  • Apply your own device to reset your password
  • Use someone else's device to reset your countersign
  • If you can't change or reset your password

Use your ain device to reset your countersign

Use the steps below to reset your countersign from any trusted iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, or Mac.

On your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Lookout with watchOS 8 or after

  1. Go to Settings.
  2. Tap [your name] > Password & Security > Change Password.
  3. If you're signed into iCloud and have a passcode enabled, you'll exist prompted to enter the passcode for your device.
  4. Follow the onscreen steps to update your password.

On your Mac with macOS Catalina or afterward

  1. Choose Apple carte  > Organisation Preferences, then click Apple ID.
  2. Click Countersign & Security. If you're asked to enter your Apple tree ID countersign, click "Forgot Apple ID or password" and follow the onscreen instructions. You can skip the final step below.
  3. Click Change Password, then enter the password you use to unlock your Mac.

Use a trusted phone number, trusted electronic mail, recovery cardinal, or account recovery contact

  • In some cases, yous might be able to reset your password using a trusted phone number and trusted email.
  • If y'all use a recovery cardinal for account security, you can use it to help reset your password on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on. Acquire more than about using a recovery key.
  • If you already gear up upward an account recovery contact, your account recovery contact tin assist you reset your password on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect. Learn more well-nigh using an business relationship recovery contact.

Use someone else's device to reset your password

You can reset your Apple ID password on a friend or family unit member's iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using the Apple Support app or the Notice My iPhone app. You tin can also visit an Apple tree Shop and enquire to apply a device on site.

Use the Apple Support app

Ask your friend or family member to open the App Store and download the Apple tree Support app on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear upon. Tin't download the Apple Support app?

Then open the Apple Back up app and follow these steps:

  1. Tap Passwords & Security.
  2. Tap Reset Apple ID countersign.
  3. Tap Get Started, then tap "A different Apple tree ID."
  4. Enter the Apple ID that yous demand to reset the password for.
  5. Tap Next, then follow the steps on your screen until you lot receive confirmation that your Apple ID countersign is changed.

Any data that y'all enter will not exist stored on the device.

Utilize the Observe My iPhone app

If your friend or family fellow member uses iOS 9 through 12 and they can't download the Apple tree Support app, employ the Find My iPhone app instead.

  1. Open the Detect My iPhone app.
  2. When a Sign In screen appears, make sure the Apple tree ID field is empty. If you lot encounter someone else'south user proper name, erase it.
  3. Tap Forgot Apple tree ID or Password, then follow the onscreen steps.

Don't see a Sign In screen? Tap Sign Out. Later on y'all sign out, make sure the Apple ID field is empty. Then tap Forgot Apple ID or Password, and follow the onscreen steps.

If y'all tried the previous steps or live in a state or region where Support App is not bachelor, you can still reset your countersign and regain access to your business relationship with account recovery. In some cases, you might take the choice to speed upwards the account recovery process or reset your password immediately by verifying a half dozen-digit code sent to your primary e-mail accost. Learn more than nigh business relationship recovery.

If you tin can't change or reset your password

If y'all tried the previous steps and were unable to change or reset your password, try these steps instead.

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