Tuesday 12 June 2018

Importance of Gmail account security question

In modern time most of the person has more than one account. It may be different Email service providers and social accounts like Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, Facebook, Twitter etc. So, sometimes we forget the password of the account because we have the number of accounts with different passwords and if you don’t log in from the long period of time.

So, we face many problems to log in the account. That’s why we should know about some other options to log in to your account. Most of the Email service provider companies provide some other method to log in.

As like - Security Questions, mobile number, recovery email address, last password etc.

Security questions-


Gmail provides some different options to log in or recovers your Gmail account. Security questions are one of them. It is good for the user to recover the password and help to log in easily. Now we are telling about some security questions which help you to recover the account.

Some different type security questions in Gmail-


Gmail provides some different type security question which you have to remember because when your recovery email and mobile not attached with your account then you can access the account using security questions. They are same as given below-

•           What is your nickname?
•           What is your favorite book?
•           What is the name of your primary school?
•           Who is your favorite movie hero?
•           What is your Date of Birth?

There are two different way to set the security questions-


1.         When you create the Gmail account.
2.         After login in your account using Email id and Password.

When you are creating the new Gmail account, it will ask you for a Security question. Now you have to choose anyone from the given options for security questions and save the suitable answer. Now, you have to save or remember the answer to this question for recovering Gmail account for future reference.

If you want to change your security question, then you have to follow the given below steps.

How you can change the security Questions?

1.         First login in your Gmail account using Email id & password.
2.         Now, click on Gear icon which is available upper right- hand corner of Gmail page.
3.         Go to the Settings which present in the drop-down list.
4.         Click on the Accounts and Imports to change the questions.
5.         Now you will find the option Change password recovery options and click on it.
6.         Now you find the option of Security Questions with the drop-down menu.
7.         Now you can select anyone from the given options and provide suitable answer in the given text field.
8.         Now, Save it for future purpose.

Now your security question and their answer save with your Gmail account. It helps you to solve the Gmail recovery issue. You can answer correctly and recover your account.

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