What Can You Do When You Forgot Your Apple ID Password

The Internet has brought us convenience in almost every part of our life, but it also brings incontinence when it comes to creating and remembering all the passwords. Everyone knows that one should create a unique password for each of our accounts for security reasons. However, in reality, it seemed so easy to just pick something simple by hand and end up forgetting them. For example, it could be quite troublesome if you forgot your Apple ID password, as Apple products have become essential for many of us in our daily life.

 

What to Do If You Forgot Your Apple ID Password?

There are a few steps that you can follow when you forgot your Apple ID password and to reset a new Apple ID password for your account: 

1. Go to https://appleid.apple.com, find the “Forgotten your Apple ID or password?” and click on it.
2. Enter the email that you use to register your Apple ID, then click “Continue”. Here you will have to do a verification, enter your trusted phone number, then click “Continue”. 
3. Now on your Apple devices, you’ll receive a notification. On a Mac you will see a message “A password reset request was sent from a device at the location shown below”, here you may click on the Reset; On the iPhone you’ll see “Use this phone to reset password”, here you may click on Allow.
4. Then just follow the onscreen instructions, here you can enter a new Apple ID password for the account.

 

Another way to reset the Apple ID password that you forgot is by answering security questions. To do that, first go to https://iforgot.apple.com/password/verify/appleid, enter your Apple ID, click on continue, an email with the title of “How to reset your Apple ID password” will be sent to your email. You can click the “Reset now” link in the email, then follow the instructions.