Yahoo mail is one of the most famous and huge email services in the world. It has a tremendous base of users from throughout the globe. It has been offering attractive highlights and quality services from the beginning. However, the users of Yahoo encounter various issues from time to time, and the issues related to the password are very common.
Forgetting password limit users to access their account and if it not resolved on time users can lose their essential data such as contacts, attachment and many more. Here in this post, we describe the topic of “how to change Yahoo password on desktop", keep reading the blog till the end.
Yahoo password recovery
In order to perform the recovery process of Yahoo, there are two methods are available to retrieve the access of account.
You can use the Yahoo official site and go to the support segment as Sign-in Helper to reset the Yahoo password. Look to the Account security, Yahoo shows the 10 account related concerns, users can select the options which is related to the problem. For resetting the password select the 2 option “Change or reset your Yahoo password”. Now follow the underneath steps:
- After tapping, you will be transformed to the next page, there you will get two options “Change your password” and “Reset a forgotten password”.
- Click on “Reset a forgotten password”
- On the next screen, you will request for an email address or phone number which you provide while registration
- After entering it Click on Continue
- Supposed, you have typed the phone number, now it will ask your consent to send an account key on phone number, Tap on Yes.
- You will receive an account key on your phone number, enter it into the “Enter the Account Key we sent to the number”
- Now verify it tapping it
- Yahoo will allow you to log in, you can tap on continue to start using an email account. Though, beforehand going to the next steps it is sensible to change your Yahoo password by ticking on “Create a new password”
- All you need to fill the captcha to prove that you are human, now Tap on continue button.
- Now choose the strong password and click on continue. Now you are all set, you have successfully changed your Yahoo account password.
The above given are the effective steps to recover or reset the Yahoo password. However, forgetting a password is a common problem among users hence use the strong password or use the Account key feature of Yahoo.

