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PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,729 posts) Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:10 PM Mar 2018

How do I change my password for my yahoo email?

I can't figure out how to do it, and when I called yahoo they said there would be a charge for this tech help. I said no, I won't pay to have someone tell me where to click on the page just because they don't make it obvious.

Anyway, can someone here walk me through it?

Thanks.

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How do I change my password for my yahoo email? (Original Post) PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 OP

Try clicking on "I forgot my password" if there is a place like that. rickford66 Mar 2018 #1

Okay, thanks. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #2

Open your email. Click on the icon next to your name in the upper right hand corner. mia Mar 2018 #3

Thank you. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #4

Glad you found a solution. mia Mar 2018 #5

I would like to know Susan Calvin Mar 2018 #6

I just clicked my way through things PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #7

rickford66

(5,667 posts)

1. Try clicking on "I forgot my password" if there is a place like that.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Original post)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:14 PM

Mar 2018

I forgot mine years ago and they emailed me mine to another email address, Pretty secure, right ?

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,729 posts)

2. Okay, thanks.

Reply to rickford66 (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:15 PM

Mar 2018

I'll try that.

. . . And it worked.

Sometimes I can be totally dense about how to do the most basic things.

mia

(8,420 posts)

3. Open your email. Click on the icon next to your name in the upper right hand corner.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Original post)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:18 PM

Mar 2018

Click on "help". Choose "change or reset your password".

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,729 posts)

4. Thank you.

Reply to mia (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:21 PM

Mar 2018

Although that doesn't seem to do anything for me.

What I wound up doing was logging out, and then when logging back in asked for help. They sent a verifying text to my cell phone, which I then typed in and was immediately sent to a page to do a new password.

I'm good now. Thanks again for the help.

mia

(8,420 posts)

5. Glad you found a solution.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:33 PM

Mar 2018

Susan Calvin

(2,099 posts)

6. I would like to know

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Original post)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 11:11 PM

Mar 2018

How to remove my real birthday from my Yahoo account. Or change it to my internet birthday.

Had it 20+ years, before I knew better.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,729 posts)

7. I just clicked my way through things

Reply to Susan Calvin (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 11:56 PM

Mar 2018

and when I got to the part about changing a wrong birthday, Yahoo won't do that. It says that for security reasons you can't change your birthdate. You'd have to open a new account to do so.

That sucks.

Recently on FB I deleted my birthday information.

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