If you forgot your Apple ID password

If you have bug when you try to sign in with your Apple tree ID password, use these steps to reset it and regain access to your business relationship.

  • Use your ain device to reset your password
  • Utilize someone else's device to reset your countersign
  • If yous can't change or reset your password

Use your own device to reset your countersign

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

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

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

On your Mac with macOS Catalina or later

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

Use a trusted phone number, trusted email, recovery cardinal, or account recovery contact

  • In some cases, you might be able to reset your password using a trusted phone number and trusted email.
  • If you utilize a recovery central for account security, you can use it to aid reset your password on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Learn more than about using a recovery fundamental.
  • If y'all already set up up an account recovery contact, your business relationship recovery contact tin help y'all reset your countersign on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Learn more than near using an account recovery contact.

Utilize someone else'south device to reset your countersign

You can reset your Apple ID password on a friend or family member's iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using the Apple Support app or the Observe My iPhone app. Yous tin also visit an Apple Shop and ask to use a device on site.

Use the Apple Support app

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

And so open up 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 different Apple ID."
  4. Enter the Apple tree ID that you need to reset the password for.
  5. Tap Next, then follow the steps on your screen until you lot receive confirmation that your Apple ID password is inverse.

Whatever information that y'all enter volition not exist stored on the device.

Employ the Observe My iPhone app

If your friend or family unit fellow member uses iOS 9 through 12 and they tin can't download the Apple Support app, use the Observe My iPhone app instead.

  1. Open up the Find My iPhone app.
  2. When a Sign In screen appears, brand sure the Apple ID field is empty. If you come across someone else'south user name, erase it.
  3. Tap Forgot Apple ID or Password, then follow the onscreen steps.

Don't see a Sign In screen? Tap Sign Out. After you 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 alive in a country or region where Back up App is non bachelor, you tin can still reset your countersign and regain admission to your business relationship with account recovery. In some cases, y'all might have the option to speed upwardly the account recovery procedure or reset your countersign immediately by verifying a 6-digit code sent to your principal email address. Learn more about account recovery.

If y'all tin can't change or reset your password

If y'all tried the previous steps and were unable to modify or reset your countersign, effort these steps instead.

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