How To Recover iCloud Account

Complete Guide For iCloud Account Recovery

Apple iCloud is an exceptionally great platform with the help of which you can store your Apple product’s data entirely over a single cloud platform. Moreover, it offers impressive security features too, and sometimes when people forgot their Apple iCloud account password, they are unable to access it because of these high-end security features.

But is there away with the help of which we can go for an Apple iCloud account recovery? If you are one of such people who have forgotten their iCloud password, then do follow this guide till the end, as here we are going to discuss everything about Apple iCloud account recovery methods that will help you to gain access to your account again.

iCloud Account Recovery Process

There are various ways with the help of which you can recover your Apple iCloud details, let us have a look at those ways one by one.

Two-factor authentication-

Before heading towards this recovery method, let us be clear that this method will only work with those who have turned on their two-factor authentication on your Apple ID and have linked their other email id.

1. In the first step, you need to open the iforgot.apple.com website in your web browser.

2. On that website, you would have to fill in the email address of your Apple ID.

3. Click Continue after successfully filling the email address.

4. There you will get an option saying “I need to reset my password”, you need to click on it and then click Continue.

5. Right after that, you would be able to notice two different options from which you would have to select one. Those options would be to Get an email and Answer security questions.

6. From those options, you need to select on Getting an email.

7. Then click on Continue and done. In few seconds you will get an email, which will suggest you click on a link for resetting your Apple ID account.

8. Click on the link, Enter your new password, confirm it and that’s it.

9. By clicking on Reset Password, you would be able to reset your account and hence can have access to your account again.

Answering Security Questions

Here is the step with the help of which you can solve this account recovery issue by answering the security questions.

In Step 5 above, you must have noticed that we got two different options from which we have had to select one. Those options were Get an email or Answer security questions.

From those options, you need to select Answer security questions. But before that, you would have to verify your birthday and continue with further settings.

In the next step, you would have to answer security questions that you must have given whenever you have created Apple ID.

After successfully filling answers to all questions you need to enter a new\ password, confirm it, and then click on Reset Password.

These were the steps with the help of which you would be able to know about your Apple iCloud password and hence can have access to your account again.

How to recover an iCloud account when a factor for two-factor authentication goes missing

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is highly recommended with your Apple ID, especially for iCloud or iTunes and App Store purchases, there’s one drawback: you need access to a second factor, or you might wind up losing everything associated with your account.

Normally, this shouldn’t be a problem. The second factor for Apple’s system is always at least one Mac or one iOS device plus a phone number (one that receives either text messages or voice calls, so a landline is an option). It would seem an unlikely scenario in which you lost all of that at once.

You can also add other phone numbers as backups, which is what my wife and I have done with each other’s cell numbers. Even if we lost access to our devices and our own numbers, we could still log in. (Telephone numbers can be reassigned, and hackers sometimes socially engineer or otherwise shift them for identity theft or worse purposes.)

But it happened to Macworld reader Edgar, who writes in about his problems after switching away from the iPhone to a different platform:

I need to get into my iCloud account to access photos, notes, contacts, etc. but had two-factor authentication enabled. I’m being prompted to enter the code when I login online but the phone lines have been switched, so I don’t have access to the 2FA code on iPhone.

He may be in a pickle, although having the password to his account should help. Apple offers a semi-automated account-recovery process that hinges on how much information you can provide. The more information, the faster the process goes. Human beings are involved to make it difficult or impossible to automate the recovery for malicious ends, but Apple also may decide it can’t verify your identity well enough, even if you own the account, to give you access back.

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