How to add recovery phone number, backup email for Microsoft account (Outlook / Hotmail)
How to add or remove backup & recovery email numbers for your Microsoft account (Outlook / Hotmail) helps keep your account secure.
The information you add will give you more ways to recover your password when you forget or lose. And also make your account more secure.
How do I add a phone number or email to retrieve my password when I forget?
Step 1: From the Outlook / Hotmail mailbox click the top right corner picture select View account.
Select Privacy & privacy on the menu then click on the option Add Privacy Settings in the Account Security section.
Step 2: You will now be asked for confirmation by phone or email (you enter when registering). Check the receipt of the confirmation code. Enter the email address or the last 4 digits of the phone number then press the Send button.
Step 3: Enter the verification code you received by email or phone number then click Submit.
Step 4: Now you will be promoting the login verification method using the application on your smartphone. Press the Set button later to skip.
Step 5: Go to the Security Information section to help keep your account secure, click the Add security link in this section.
Step 6: There will be two additional security information options, phone or email.
+ In case you add a confidential information is a phone number
You choose the first frame is a phone number, the second frame is your area code, the third frame is to enter the phone number you want to use as confidential information. Confirmation via Text (message) or Call (use Text). Finally, click the Next button.
At this point, Microsoft will send you a confirmation message to the phone number you entered above. You enter the code received then click Next.
So this phone number has been added to the security information for your Microsoft account then.
+ In case you add a confidential information is an email
Select the first frame as an alternate email address, enter the email you want to use as the alternate email in the second frame then click the Next button.
At this point, checking the email you will see a test email from Microsoft that contains the security code.
You enter the confirmation code received in the email then click the Next button.
As such, this email has been added to your account's security information.
Hopefully with this article you will have more knowledge about HOTMAIL service.
The information you add will give you more ways to recover your password when you forget or lose. And also make your account more secure.
How do I add a phone number or email to retrieve my password when I forget?
Step 1: From the Outlook / Hotmail mailbox click the top right corner picture select View account.
Select Privacy & privacy on the menu then click on the option Add Privacy Settings in the Account Security section.
Step 2: You will now be asked for confirmation by phone or email (you enter when registering). Check the receipt of the confirmation code. Enter the email address or the last 4 digits of the phone number then press the Send button.
Step 3: Enter the verification code you received by email or phone number then click Submit.
Step 4: Now you will be promoting the login verification method using the application on your smartphone. Press the Set button later to skip.
Step 5: Go to the Security Information section to help keep your account secure, click the Add security link in this section.
Step 6: There will be two additional security information options, phone or email.
+ In case you add a confidential information is a phone number
You choose the first frame is a phone number, the second frame is your area code, the third frame is to enter the phone number you want to use as confidential information. Confirmation via Text (message) or Call (use Text). Finally, click the Next button.
At this point, Microsoft will send you a confirmation message to the phone number you entered above. You enter the code received then click Next.
So this phone number has been added to the security information for your Microsoft account then.
+ In case you add a confidential information is an email
Select the first frame as an alternate email address, enter the email you want to use as the alternate email in the second frame then click the Next button.
At this point, checking the email you will see a test email from Microsoft that contains the security code.
You enter the confirmation code received in the email then click the Next button.
As such, this email has been added to your account's security information.
Hopefully with this article you will have more knowledge about HOTMAIL service.
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