iQinews – The problem of forgetting the password when you want to log in to a Facebook account can happen to anyone. If you experience this, see how to open Facebook forgot the following password.
Quoting the Facebook Help Center, if the user forgets the personal account password, then the solution is to change the registered password, aka reset password.
This is because Facebook cannot send a copy of the user’s password without resetting it. If the user has logged in or logged into his Facebook account, then the user can change the password in the Settings section.
However, if the user forgets the password and cannot log into the account, then the user must at least have access to the email or mobile number connected to the Facebook account.
This email or mobile number is required to reset the password. Here’s how to open Facebook when you forget your password.
How to open Facebook forgot password
How to open Facebook forgot password can be done on any device. Starting from a browser on a mobile phone, laptop or computer. Here’s how:
- Open facebook.com in the user’s device browser
- Click ‘Forgot Password?’
- Enter the email or mobile number associated with the user’s Facebook account
- Click ‘Search’
- Choose one of the options for sending a reset code from Facebook to the user, whether via a Google account, email, or SMS to the user’s cellphone number
- Click ‘Continue’
- Facebook will send a password reset code to the user
- Enter the reset code obtained
- Click ‘Continue’
- Enter a new password
- Click ‘Continue’
- New password changed successfully
- Choose one of the options whether the user wants to enter a new password for the account on various registered devices or not
- Click ‘Continue’
- The process is complete, the user can log in with the new password. If the user logs out of the account, don’t forget that your password has changed from before
- Please note, users can add a new cellphone number or email to their account to reset their password if needed at a later date. This is for security in the future.
What if the method above doesn’t work?
Another way to open a Facebook account that has forgotten its password is to use the “trusted contacts” feature.
This feature is available on Facebook to make it easier for users to access their Facebook account when they forget their password.
You can ask a friend’s contact for help to access or open a Facebook account. Here’s how:
- Go to facebook.com on your computer
- Click forgot account on the login page
- Enter an active username, email or phone number
- Click Don’t have access here anymore if the email addresses don’t match
- Enter a new accessible email or phone number then click continue
- Click Show trusted contacts and and type a contact’s full name
- A special notification or link appears for the recovery code which can be accessed through trusted contacts
- Send the link to your friends to open it
- The link contains the login code and then ask the friend’s contact for the login code
- Then you can use the recovery code from a trusted contact to access your Facebook account.
Those are some ways to open Facebook if you forget your password via email, cellphone number, and the help of friends. Make sure your cellphone number and email are active to get an OTP code from Facebook.
