I've forgotten my PayPal password and changed my phone number! How do I recover my PayPal account without email?
Can we change the PayPal password? What we can do for the PayPal account recovery? For all the above questions, we have the solutions to every question.
In this tutorial, we're going to learn different methods for resetting PayPal passwords without phone numbers or email.
How to reset your PayPal password without a phone number?
Here, we'll use Forgot password method to reset a PayPal password without a Phone number.
If you don't have a working phone number right now, then you can use other ways to reset the password:
- Entering your Email or Credit/Debit card number
- Answering Security Questions
So, please follow the below steps to recover or Reset your PayPal password:
- Open PayPal mobile app and select Forgot your password? option from the login page
- Enter your Email address and proceed
- Now, Choose either Receive an Email, Answering Security Questions, Confirm your Credit/Debit card number
You can choose any one option as per your choice and then, follow the instructions as per your Selected option.
After all processes, it will bring you to the Password reset page and you can change your Password as you want!
How to reset a PayPal password from PayPal account settings?
If you are trying to reset the PayPal password, here we've given a detailed tutorial. Keep note that a tutorial is different for PayPal personal and PayPal Business accounts.
Also Read: How to change the name on PayPal?
Reset a PayPal password without a phone number on PayPal personal account
If you are using PayPal Personal, then follow the below steps:
- To reset your PayPal password on your PayPal Personal account, log in with your PayPal credentials
- Open the Settings page using the ⚙️Gear icon
- Then select Account settings and Select the security
- Under the Security tab, you will find the opinion to change the PayPal password
- Select update and enter your Current password and New password here
After that, a confirmation message will pop up that successfully changed the password.
Reset a PayPal password without a phone number on the PayPal Business account
If you're using PayPal for your business or using PayPal's Business version, then follow the below steps to change the password on PayPal Business.
- Log in with your PayPal credentials
- Hover on the Profile option and select Profile settings
- Under Login and security, you'll find the Password change option here
- Select the Change option, then you've entered the current and new addresses there
After all, processes will be completed, then the confirmation message will pop up.
How to recover a PayPal account without an email or phone number?
Actually, you can recover the PayPal account password without the Email, by using the Phone number.
Just like previously we did, to recover the PayPal account password without the Phone number, you have to do it using Email.
What if you've forgotten your password, and you want to recover the PayPal account password without Both the Email and a Phone number.
You need to contact the PayPal support team. Then, tell them briefly about your password-related query.
How do I call or contact PayPal support?
You don't need to call them, you can contact them through the Contact us option which is in the Footer section of the Payal login page. If you don't know the method, then just follow these steps.
Open the PayPal login page and select the Contact us option from the footer
Now, select Message us under the Other ways to contact us section
It will ask you to log in. Since, we don't have login credentials we can continue with Having trouble logging in? option.
FIX: Can't reset my PayPal password by email!
If you're not able to reset your PayPal password by using email then you can choose the Phone number option here.
PayPal provides a Password reset option with an Email and Phone number. Follow this steps
- Open the PayPal login page and select Forgot password?
- Put your PayPal email address and proceed with it
- Now, try to recover the password with email, if not working then select Receive an SMS
- Then, you'll get OTP SMS on your Phone, and just enter that OTP on your PayPal password to recover
After that, you can reset your PayPal password by email. there are other recovery options like Security questions, Credit or Debit card numbers are also available.
FIX: PayPal password reset not working!
If you've tried the PayPal password reset and is not working or not able to reset your password, you can try this.
You can try the Contact us method which we've explained previously. You can contact PayPal support by Messaging them, calling them, or asking your question to experts in the PayPal community.
Final verdict
From the above post, we have concluded that you can change your PayPal account password directly from settings. But, you can also reset it without using a phone number.
If you find any difficulties while resetting the forgotten password then you can contact us through the comment section. So, we can try to help you out.