Associate your Mobile with Google Accounts Now!

Mrinmay Bhattacharjee | August 13, 2009 More


Google offers robust security to each and every user. But it’s also essential that you take necessary precautions in order to maintain the security of your Account.

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Apart from Setting Strong Password for your Account, you must:

  • Also set your Security Question’s Answer completely unpredictable
  • Make sure that you have entered an additional (and valid) Secondary E-mail Address with your Google Account (Why?)
  • Use HTTPS

Apart from above, Google now enables users to Associate their valid Mobile Number with their Google Account. For adding your own Mobile Number with your Google Account, follow these simple steps:

1. Sign In to your Personalized Google Account using this LINK

2. Now just besides Security, click Change Password Recovery Options:

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3. Now here Enter your Active Mobile Number by suitably selecting the Country and also Check Use this phone number for password recovery via text message - It’s Necessary:

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As soon as you are done with the above 3 steps, your Mobile Number has been associated with your Google Account.

Also make sure, you enter your Mobile Number Again with Google Accounts, if you change your Mobile Number in near future!

How to Recover your Google Account Password Using SMS?

Since, you have associated your Mobile Number with Google Account, now the Question arises How to Recover your Google Account Password using SMS? Here’s the way:

Suppose you forget your password in near future than in order to recover it Just make use of this Password Assistance Page. Enter your E-mail Address >> Confirmation Code and Google will send necessary resetting instructions to your Mobile as well as associated secondary E-mail Address.

Believe me, This Password Reset Feature via SMS is whole lot of secure, so it’s recommended that you add your Valid Mobile Number with Google Accounts Now!

Must Read: Create Super Strong Password with Text Flipping! & How to protect your Important Bank & E-mail Accounts?

Category: Google, Mobile, Security, Web

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