How do i get facebook to forget my email
I forgot my Facebook password and email password. How can I log into Facebook?
I can’t reset my Facebook password because I can't access the email or mobile phone number on my account.
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Here are some things you can try to get back into your account so you can reset your password.
Try logging in with an alternate email or phone number
You may be able to get back into your Facebook account by using an alternate email or mobile phone number listed on your account.
If you don't know what alternate information you have:
- Go to facebook.com/login/identify
- and follow the instructions.
- Make sure to use a computer or mobile phone that you have previously used to log into your Facebook account.
- Learn how to reset your password once you get back into your account.
Try to recover your email account
- If you signed up for Facebook with your email, contact your email service provider to regain access to the email on your Facebook account.
For example, many email service providers have Trouble signing in? option on their sign-in screen.
- If you regain access to your email, you can finish the steps to reset your password
How do I change or reset my password?
Change your password
To change your password on Facebook if you're already logged in:
- Click in the top-right corner of any Facebook page and select Settings.
- Click Security and login.
- Click Edit next to Change password.
- Click Save Changes.
If you're logged in but have forgotten your password, follow the steps under Change your password, then click Forgot your password? and follow the steps to reset it. Bear in mind that you'll need access to the email associated with your account.
Reset your password
To reset your password if you're not logged in to Facebook:
- Go to the Find your account page
- Type the email address, mobile phone number, full name, or username associated with your account, then click Search.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
If you're still having trouble, we can help you recover your account
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Try troubleshooting your mobile phone number
- If you signed up with your mobile number, check out these mobile phone number tips.
I signed up on Facebook with my mobile number and now I can’t log in.
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If you're having trouble logging in to Facebook with your mobile number, try these tips:
- Make sure to enter your entire mobile phone number, including the country code
- Leave out any extra zeros, plus signs (+) or other special characters.
If you're still having trouble, you can try to recover your account:
- Go to facebook.com/login/identify
- and follow the instructions.
- Make sure to use a computer or mobile phone that you have previously used to log into your Facebook account.
You can also check out these login troubleshooting tips
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2ND METHOD / ANOTHER WAY
• If you have forgotten your email id or user name you used to sign in for your Facebook account. Don’t worry in this case ask your friend to search your name and go to your profile, you can see the username on the URL which is provided by Facebook.
• And if you have made visible your user name, you can see in the ‘About’ session of your friend’s profile.
If you have no access to your email either, signed up with Facebook using a Mailinator, Guerrilla Mail, Maildrop, 10minutemail, etc. email address. It may be hard to recover, but not impossible, in case you have set your friends to be ‘Trusted Contact’.
From the Help Page of Facebook.
1. On the Facebook help page, search for ‘How can I reset my Facebook password.
2. Follow the instructions provided by Facebook to use your trusted contacts to get back into your account.
3. You'll get a set of instructions that includes a URL. The URL contains a special security code that can be accessed by your trusted contacts only.
Call your trusted friends and give them the URL so that they can open the link and give the security code to you.
4. Use the security codes from your friend's mobile to access your account.
If you don't have already set up your trusted contacts, set up now.
Note that after passing all the security checks, you will have to wait at least 24 hours before you can access your account as an additional precaution.
If you are operating a Facebook page.
If your Facebook page has been blocked because we’ve detected suspicious account activity? Don’t worry Facebook has not disabled your account yet.
It will ask you for several tasks or for verification.
• Choose 3 to 4 friends to contact
• Identify your friend's name from the above-suggested pictures.
• Verify your account with mobile number or email id
So make sure to provide all necessary data required and your profile as well.
Add a phone number and email id and verify it.
How to Delete an Old Facebook Account When You Can’t Log In
by Josh Kirschner on July 17, 2018
in Tips & How-Tos, Facebook, Privacy :: 414 comments
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Do you have an old Facebook account that you’re no longer using with posts or pictures from your younger days that you don’t want people to see? It’s easy to delete your account if you still have access to it. But what if you can’t remember the login information?
Here are the two steps you can take to try and recover account access so you can delete your account – and the associated unwanted former memories – permanently.
1. Try to recover your Facebook password
Go to https://www.facebook.com/login/identify to search for your account. You can search by the email or phone number you used to set up the account, or just by name (the search screen doesn’t mention that option but it works, too).
If you go the name route, your account may or may not show up, depending on your privacy settings. If you don’t see it, click “I’m not on this list” and you’ll be prompted to enter the name of a friend and search again.
Once you find your old account, you’ll be able to send a reset code to any of the email addresses or phone numbers you associated with your account. If you’re not sure which email address you used, Facebook will show you a redacted version (e.g., j*******[email protected]) that should spark your memory in case it’s an old email that you don’t log into anymore.
If you don’t have access to that email address or phone number anymore, try hard to regain access to that old email account. Because it gets far bleaker from here…
2. Use Facebook’s Trusted Friends feature
If you can’t access the email address or phone number on your account, your only other hope is Facebook’s Trusted Friends feature. Launched in 2013, Trusted Friends lets you regain access to your account in case of forgotten credentials by asking three “trusted friends” to supply a reset code. The big problem with Trusted Friends is that you had to have set it up in advance for your account, which very few people have done, according to a quick check I did of my friends and other random accounts.
(To set it up for an account you still have access to: 1. Go to Settings (down arrow). 2. Go to your Security and Login Settings. 3. Scroll down to Choose 3 to 5 friends to contact if you get locked out and click Edit. 43. Click Choose friends and follow the on-screen instructions.)
If you fall into the category of one of the lucky few who set this up, when you tell Facebook that you “No longer have access to these?” on the email and phone recovery page you’ll be provided with an option to enter a new email or phone number and continue with the process.
Click “Reveal My Trusted Contacts” and type the full name of one of your trusted contacts. Facebook will then give you a special URL that each of your three friends need to access. The URL contains a recovery code to reset your account, which your friends need to provide back to you. You will need to contact your friends and provide them the URL – Facebook will not do this for you. If you can’t contact one of your trusted friends for whatever reason, you’re out of luck.
As I mentioned above, if you didn’t already set up Trusted Contacts, it’s too late now. When you tell Facebook you can’t access the email account, you won’t have the option to provide a new email address or phone number, you’ll just be told to try logging in again (in other words, you’re outta luck).
3. Report your old account as fake
While Facebook makes deleting an old account difficult, thanks to the proliferation of Facebook account spoofing, deleting a fake account is far easier. So one of our clever readers told us in the comments he reported his old account as fake and it was quickly deleted. Another reader also had success going this route.
To report your old account as fake:
- Go to the profile of your old account
- Click the three little dots on the bottom right of the cover photo and select "Give feedback or report this profile"
- Click on "Pretending to Be Someone" and then click "Me"
Let us know in the comments if this method works for you, too.
4. There is no option four (at least no easy one)
I reached out to Facebook and they have confirmed that, for security reasons, they will only allow you to delete your account if you can access it through one of the two official methods above (or our "unofficial" workaround). Those photos of your ex-relationships, nights of drunken bacchanalia and really, really bad choices of hairstyle are going to live on forever in the Facebook universe.
However, you may be able to pursue avenues outside Facebook’s standard deletion policies. For example, if you reside in the EU, the GDPR provides the right for consumers to demand companies delete their personal information on request. And if Facebook isn’t responding to a request, you may be able to take the issue up with your country’s privacy officer.
According to Facebook’s Privacy Policy, disputes can be resolved through a third-party company called TrustArc. However, at the time of publishing this article, Facebook is blocking its own link to the TrustArc feedback form as malicious (irony noted).
Instead, you can use Facebook’s Data Policy Help Center Contact form or send a snail mail letter to:
Facebook, Inc.
ATTN: Privacy Operations
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Since these aren't officially sanctioned means of getting your account deleted, we don't know what your likelihood of success will be. If you go this route, let us know how you fare in the comments below.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Please do not put requests to have your Facebook account deleted in the comments. We cannot delete your account – you must follow the steps with Facebook we outlined above.
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Deleting an email account in Outlook
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Deleting an email account from Outlook does not disable it. If you want to disable your account, please contact your account provider. Once you delete an account from Outlook, you will no longer be able to send and receive mail using it.
These instructions are only for versions of Outlook, Outlook 2019, Outlook 2016, 2013, and 2010 with a Microsoft 365 subscription. If you're using Windows 10 Mail, see Remove an email account from the Mail and Calendar apps and also "Mail" and "Calendar" for Windows 10: "FaQ".0003
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In the main Outlook window, select "File" in the upper left corner of the screen.
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Select Account Setup > Account Setup .
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Select the account you want to delete and click the Delete button.
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You will see a warning that all cached content for this account will be deleted. This only applies to data downloaded to your computer.
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Press button Yes to confirm.
Important: If you want to delete your last or only email account in Outlook, you will receive a warning that you must create a new data location before deleting the account. For more information, see the "Creating an Outlook Data File" topic.
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Add or remove an email alias
Close your Outlook.com account
How to permanently delete a Facebook account? Instructions with screenshots
The difference between deletion and deactivation
Deactivation acts as a temporary account freeze. For example, you decided to go to the mountains and indulge in a digital detox without Facebook and constant notifications, but you know for sure that in a couple of months you will return and you will need an account with all contacts and messages. By the way, about messages - when you delete your Facebook profile, you will also delete the link to Messenger, which will lead to the loss of all dialogs and data in correspondence. Therefore, if an account on FB is no longer needed, but private messages are a different matter, then you can use the account deactivation option instead of deleting it.
Read related: How to delete old posts from Facebook Timeline
How to deactivate a Facebook account
From the web version
menu) and select "Settings", or simply follow this link.
Click "Edit" on the "Account Management" block
And click "Deactivate Account" at the very bottom of this settings block.
To prevent your account from being deactivated by a colleague who doesn't really like you, but left his work computer on, Facebook will ask you to enter the current account password, and only after that the account will be deactivated. Messenger will keep its performance and history of correspondence, but when you again want to share your thoughts, mood or tell Mark what's new, you can always activate your account again, completely restoring all the data.
From the mobile app
Tap the hamburger menu on the app's bottom bar, then Settings & Privacy > Settings.
Next, you need the "Account Management" menu item. By the way, on the current screen, you can use the application to download the archive of the data you downloaded.
And in "Account Management" - the section "Deactivation and deletion".
After that, it remains only to finally decide on the decision about deactivation or removal by selecting the appropriate item.
How to delete an entire Facebook account
If you have definitely decided that you will no longer need it, as well as Messenger (leave - so leave), then instead of deactivating your account, which still leaves the possibility of rolling everything back, it would be preferable for you to delete the entire account, without the possibility of recovery.
Read related: How to permanently delete accounts from Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
From the web version
In the same way as during deactivation, go to the general Facebook settings, but from the "General" tab go to "Your information on Facebook".
Here you can also request an archive of all information for downloading to your computer, if you definitely don’t feel sorry for the account, but all those hundreds of photos, records, notes and comments are a pity. The social network will create an archive of all this data for you, which can be downloaded before deleting your account.
On the deletion page, you will once again be asked to deactivate your account instead of deleting it, just in case, if you need Messenger, and also to download the archive with the information you downloaded.
You can then unzip the data file and make sure that everything is actually saved - from your saved objects and links and account information to all photos (taking into account the nesting hierarchy of your albums) and Likes and list friends at the time of account deletion.
If you have thought it all over and decided to permanently delete your account, all that remains is to press the appropriate button and then enter the account password for confirmation.
If you suddenly change your mind about deleting after deleting (yes, this also happens), then you will have 30 days to restore your account, you just need to log into it and click "Cancel deletion" on the page that appears after logging in .
Well, if within a month after the deletion you have not decided to restore your account, then you will not be able to do it after.
From the phone
All steps are similar to account deactivation, except for the final one - you just need to select "Account deactivation" instead of "Account deactivation".
This is about deleting a profile, that is, a personal page. In addition, sometimes it becomes necessary to delete the company page.
How to delete a business page on Facebook
From the web version
First of all, you need to go to the page that you administer and click on the "Settings" menu.
To delete a page, you need the lowest item in the general settings block.
