You can continue to read this article if you have forgotten your ProtonMail password and wish to reset it. Prior to this, one thing you should note is that ProtonMail login uses a high encryption method, therefore resetting your password would only be possible if you have chosen any account recovery option during the registration.
Most of the time, users select an optional email address as their password recovery option. Hence, if you have selected an optional email address as your password, then you will be able to reset your password without having to do much. For password reset, you should follow the instructions given below.
For the ProtonMail login, you basically require one password. However, if you have set up two-factor authentication, then the password reset process will go the other way round. Also, one thing you need to keep in mind is that you have access to the password recovery option.
Instructions to reset ProtonMail password
- The users who have forgotten their login passwords can click on the “Need help’ option.
- This option can be found on the login portal.
- After that, click on the “forgot password” option.
- Further, select the “reset password” option.
- On the resulting page, enter your username as well as the recovery email.
- Select the “Reset password” option once again.
- Then, you have to confirm your action.
- ProtonMail will then send you an email to reset your password.
- In this email, you will receive a code that you need to enter.
- After entering it, click on the “Reset password” option once again.
- After that, you need to follow some prompts.
- On the next step, you need to enter your new password.
- With this, you will be able to access your account with this new password.
To enable 2FA
In case you want to set up two-factor authentication, then you need to follow the steps given below:
- Go to the ‘Settings’ of your ProtonMail login account.
- After that, navigate to the ‘ Security’ section.
- Here, select ‘Two-Factor Authentication’.
- Follow some easy steps to enable it.
Conclusion:
Now that you know how to reset a forgotten email password of your ProtonMail account, you should be able to do it as many times as you want. Apart from this, you are suggested to create a strong and unique password for account login which none should be able to guess.
