Once you follow the below mentioned steps, you can easily recover the Yahoo account even if you don't have access to the phone number that is linked with the yahoo account that needs to be recovered. Read ahead for the steps:
- First you need to go to the sign in page on the official website of yahoo mail.
- Then you are required to enter your yahoo email address and then click next.
- You won’t be able to enter the password since you don't know it, you can click on the forgotten password link that is placed just below the text box that is specified for password input.
- You will be redirected to a page where you need to enter the verification code sent to your email ID. In this case, you need to enter the recovery mail ID as you are not having any access to the one that you are recovering.
- Afterwards, you need to select the secret question method which will ask you the question that you saved at the time of creating the yahoo account.
- You are required to answer the questions correctly and then you will be redirected to the password change or password reset page.
- There you need to enter the new password. The password should be strong enough to indicate green colour on the indicator and it:
- should contain 8 or more characters.
- should contain letters of both upper-case as well as lower-case.
- should contain numbers also.
- should contain any of the symbols.
- These are certain conditions that should be kept in mind resetting the password or changing it.
- After you happen to change the password successfully, you will then be redirected to the sign-in page to log-in with your new credentials. Don’t forget to log out and try logging in in order to confirm that password has successfully been reset.
- You also need to check if you have received an acknowledgement mail on your recovered yahoo account for the completion of password change process.
Steps to reset the password to recover the Yahoo account in the absence of linked recovery email address
The steps to Yahoo account recovery in case you don’t have access to the recovery email address that you must have entered at the time of creating the Google account. Read the below mentioned points for minor changes in Yahoo account recovery process
- At the time of signing in, you won’t be able to enter the password since you don't know it, you can click on the forgotten password link that is placed just below the text box that is specified for password input.
- Click on the forgotten password and this time chooses to answer the security questions or you can receive the verification code on the linked phone number via the messaging application.
- On applying the verification code, you will be displayed on the page to reset your password. Do the needful and retrieve your account successfully.
Rest all the conditions and steps remain the same.
What to do when you want to recover a deleted a Yahoo account?
- Answer as many security questions as you can.
- Use a familiar device and location
- Give exact answers to the questions asked at the time of answering the security questions.
- The email that you enter should be connected to your yahoo account.
This is how you recover deleted Yahoo account.
