If you have forgotten your Apple ID password

If you have bug when you lot endeavor to sign in with your Apple ID password, use these steps to reset it and regain access to your account.

  • Use your ain device to reset your password
  • Use someone else's device to reset your password
  • If you lot tin can't modify or reset your password

Utilize your ain device to reset your countersign

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

On your iPhone, iPad, iPod bear on or Apple tree Watch with watchOS 8 or later

  1. Become to Settings.
  2. Tap [your name] > Password & Security > Change Password.
  3. If you're signed in to iCloud and accept a passcode enabled, you'll be prompted to enter the passcode for your device.
  4. Follow the onscreen steps to update your countersign.

On your Mac with macOS Catalina or after

  1. Cull Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Apple ID.
  2. Click Countersign & Security. If you're asked to enter your Apple tree ID password, click "Forgot Apple tree ID or password" and follow the onscreen instructions. You can skip the last step below.
  3. Click Modify Password, then enter the password you utilise to unlock your Mac.

Use a trusted phone number, trusted e-mail address, recovery key or account recovery contact

  • In some cases, you may exist able to reset your countersign using a trusted phone number and trusted email address.
  • If you're using a recovery central for account security, yous tin employ information technology to help you reset your password on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Find out more about using a recovery key.
  • If y'all've already prepare an account recovery contact, your account recovery contact can assistance yous reset your password on your iPhone, iPad or iPod bear upon. Detect out more most using an account recovery contact.

Employ someone else's device to reset your password

You lot can reset your Apple ID password on a friend or family unit member'south iPhone, iPad or iPod touch using the Apple Support app or the Find My iPhone app. You tin can also visit an Apple tree Store and ask to employ a device on site.

Utilize the Apple Support app

Inquire your friend or family unit member to open up the App Store and download the Apple tree Support app on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Tin can't download the Apple Support app?

Then open the Apple Support app and follow these steps:

  1. Tap Passwords & Security.
  2. Tap Reset Apple ID password.
  3. Tap Get Started, then tap "A unlike Apple ID".
  4. Enter the Apple ID that you need to reset the password for.
  5. Tap Next, then follow the steps on your screen until you receive confirmation that your Apple ID password has been changed.

Any information that you enter volition not be stored on the device.

Use the Find My iPhone app

If your friend or family member's device is using iOS nine to iOS 12 and the Apple Back up app tin can't exist downloaded, apply the Find My iPhone app instead.

  1. Open the Observe My iPhone app.
  2. When a Sign In screen appears, make sure the Apple tree ID field is empty. If yous run across someone else's user name, erase it.
  3. Tap Forgot Apple ID or Countersign, then follow the onscreen steps.

Can't see a Sign In screen? Tap Sign Out. Later yous sign out, make sure the Apple ID field is empty. Then tap Forgot Apple ID or Countersign, and follow the onscreen steps.

If you lot've tried the previous steps or live in a land or region where the Apple Support app is not available, you tin still reset your countersign and regain admission to your account by using business relationship recovery. In some cases, you may have the option to speed up the business relationship recovery process or reset your password immediately by verifying a six-digit code that is sent to your main email address. Detect out more than almost account recovery.

If you tin't change or reset your password

If you've tried the previous steps and take been unable to modify or reset your password, try following these steps instead.

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