If you've lost your Facebook login password, there are a couple of ways to recover access to your account.
You can try two approaches: the official way and the … well, the not-so-official way. Even if you don’t use the not-so-official way, you should know about it because it actually represents a possible security threat.
Facebook login password reset
Click that and you’ll be taken to a page containing something like this:
The first step is to enter the distorted words presented in the CAPTCHA. This is used to prevent automated hacking attempts by “proving” that you’re human.
Then, enter the email address you use to login to Facebook or your mobile phone number as registered in your Facebook account, and press Continue. Facebook will then ask for final confirmation:
After pressing Reset my password, Facebook presents the next step in the process:
Sure enough, you should find a message like this in your email after a short time:
In this example, I’ll take the confirmation code that was presented in that email (1089b2b8 in this example, yours will be different), enter it into the last page that Facebook presented above, press Submit, and:
Because I confirmed that I am the rightful owner of the account by accessing the email associated with the account, Facebook now allows me to set my own new password.
That’s the official and proper way to regain access to your account: by proving ownership of the email account (or mobile number, which works similarly) and then setting a new password.
I stupidly forgot my Facebook login password and can’t get on. Now what do I do? Can I have Facebook send it to me?Unfortunately, Facebook won’t email you your password. But that’s a good thing. I would hope that most sites with proper security don’t actually know your password. Instead, they just have a way to know that you’ve typed it in correctly.
You can try two approaches: the official way and the … well, the not-so-official way. Even if you don’t use the not-so-official way, you should know about it because it actually represents a possible security threat.
Facebook login password reset
Then, enter the email address you use to login to Facebook or your mobile phone number as registered in your Facebook account, and press Continue. Facebook will then ask for final confirmation:
After pressing Reset my password, Facebook presents the next step in the process:
Sure enough, you should find a message like this in your email after a short time:
In this example, I’ll take the confirmation code that was presented in that email (1089b2b8 in this example, yours will be different), enter it into the last page that Facebook presented above, press Submit, and:
Because I confirmed that I am the rightful owner of the account by accessing the email associated with the account, Facebook now allows me to set my own new password.
That’s the official and proper way to regain access to your account: by proving ownership of the email account (or mobile number, which works similarly) and then setting a new password.
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