Working with Your Yahoo Account Made Easier Than Ever

This article covers methods to recover your Yahoo password on a mobile device, to restore your email and contact settings, and to determine whether your account is hacked or not.

Recovering Your Yahoo Password on a Mobile Device

Forgot your Yahoo email password? You don’t even need a computer now. Why? Because you can recover your password by means of a mobile device. It’s easy to get back in to your account as long as the information of your account is up-to-date.

Perform the following steps carefully:

1. Access the official Yahoo Sign In page.

The official Yahoo Sign In page displays with the Yahoo username text box, the Password text box, the Sign In button, the I can’t access my account link, and the Create Account button.

1. Tap or touch the I can’t access my account link.
2. Tap or touch the Reset your password option.
3. Tap or touch the Search text box.
4. Enter your complete Yahoo ID in the Search text box.
5. Tap or touch the OK button.
6. Enter the CAPTCHA code that appears on the screen in the field given for the same.
7. Tap or touch the OK button.
8. Tap or touch your mobile number.
9. Tap or touch the OK button.
10. Enter the missing digits in your mobile number.
11. Tap or touch the OK button.

The Validation code window displays.

1. Tap or touch the Send code button.

The verification code will be sent to your mobile phone number in the form of a text message.

1. Enter the verification code that you have received in the field given for the same.
2. Tap or touch the OK button.
3. Enter the new password in the given field.
4. Tap or touch the OK button.
5. Tap or touch the Done button.

Your Yahoo password is recovered successfully on your mobile device.

Restoring Your Email and Contact Settings

You might need to restore your email and contact settings if your account has been compromised recently or contact yahoo customer service. There might be a few missing contacts or missing emails in your email account.

• Restoring missing emails and IMs: You can request restoration by Yahoo if your Yahoo emails or IMs have been missing for the last 7 days. You need to submit a request for restoration by using the Restore Request form that you can find on the official site.

• Restoring lost or missing contacts: For restoring your contacts, you can recover individual contacts or you can complete restore all your contacts. To restore individual contacts, click the Contacts icon and click Deleted Contacts. Select the contacts that you want to restore. Click Restore Contacts in case you have chosen multiple contacts. Click Restore if you have chosen just one contact. To confirm, click Restore. Click Done. To restore your complete contacts list, click the Contacts icon. Click Actions and select Restore from backup. Choose a date for restoring your contacts. Click Restore.

• Fixing other Yahoo mail settings: It is always good to check your Signature, Reply-to address, Filters, Sending name, Blocked Addresses, and Mail Forwarding.

Checking Whether Your Account is Hacked

There are many signs to check if your account has been hacked. Here are they: Your account information has been changed, spams are getting sent from your Yahoo mail account, you are getting multiple failed delivery messages, there are logins from places you don’t identify in the Login Activity page, unidentified messages in your sent folder, and others.

To deal with the issue of hacking, you can go through the comprehensive guide on how to security your Yahoo by Yahoo technical support.