[Ultimate Guide] How to Recover Facebook Account When You Fail to Login

August 24, 2019

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has quickly entered into the American market and gained growing popularity and reputation within several months. With its advanced technology, Facebook allows its users to follow each other and share photos or interesting surroundings with their friends. On Facebook, people can talk with each other and make comments, which promotes relationships. Besides, people can know about the updated information in the world because some famous and professional presses will publish news on Facebook.

Facebook plays an important role in people's lives, making people around the world become closer and closer. Therefore, almost everyone has his or her own Facebook account. But not everyone manages his or her own Facebook account properly. Some may forget their password occasionally. Some may meet hackers who seize the chance to steal accounts for different reasons and purposes. If you find that you can't log in to your Facebook account, you can try ways below to recover it.

For People Who Forget Their Password

When there are too many trivial things in your life, you may be so busy that you can't remember every small detail like Facebook account's password. Or when you haven't logged in to Facebook for a long time, you may also forget your Facebook account's password. Don't worry! You can take several simple steps to change your password and log in to Facebook again.

STEP 1. Please open Facebook and tap Forgot account below the password inserting box.

STEP 2. Please type your email or phone number to find your account and help Facebook to confirm your account more quickly. Then click on Search.

STEP 3. Then Facebook will send a code to your email or phone. After you have received the code, please enter it into the box. Click on Continue.

STEP 4. After Facebook confirms your code, it will refresh the page and lead you to reset your password. Please decide a new password and insert it into the box. Click on Continue when you finish changing the password.

STEP 5. To ensure security and avoid invasion of privacy, Facebook will ask you whether you would like to log out of other devices. If you are worried about hackers, you can choose to log out. If you are sure that you didn't log in your account on other people's computers or phones, you can stay logged in. If you select Log out of other devices, Facebook will act to confirm your account security and delete unsecure changes for you. Then your password resetting is completed.

For People Who Are Hacked

There are different hackers in the world. And different hackers will take different methods to steal your account. Therefore, below this blog will explain two different situations for you. Take our approach and hit them back!

Situation 1. Your Associated Email Can't Login Facebook

Some hackers will disable your email and don't give your email access to Facebook. Let's follow the steps to recover your account.

STEP 1. Please go to Facebook login page and click on Forgot account.

STEP 2. Enter your email or phone number and tap Search to let Facebook search for your account.

STEP 3. Then Facebook will show a new page to locate your account and confirm with you. Please click on No longer have access to these on the bottom of the window.

STEP 3. If you are an old Facebook account user, you will gain the option of Security question to recover your account. If you are a new Facebook user, Facebook will give you the option trusted contacts to take your account back. Enter your email address and select Reveal my trusted contacts. Type the name of one of them. Subsequently, your trusted contact will receive a link. Please ask your trusted contact to tap the link and send the security code to you. Then you can insert the security code to Facebook to recoup your account.

Situation 2. Your Associated Email and Password Have Been Changed

If you find that situation is worse because you email and password have both been changed, you still have something to do.

STEP 1. Please navigate to your email box and check for Facebook's notification email. In the email, you will know the email change of your Facebook account.

STEP 2. Click on 'If you did not do this, please secure your account'. Subsequently, Facebook will provide you several recovery options like uploading your government ID, typing your birth of date, or recognizing your friends.

STEP 3. After the information that you enter is in consistent with what you set for your account, Facebook will help you reclaim your account.

STEP 4. Next, you need to reset your password by following the procedures listed for people who forget their password.

Another Two Workable Approaches to Recover Facebook Accounts

If the two ways illustrated above are not suitable for you to get your Facebook account back, you can try two approaches below which are newly launched by Facebook.

Way 1. Use the Device That You Frequently Use to Login Facebook

Recently, Facebook updates a new approach to allow users to reset password by signing in Facebook on the device that you mostly use to login Facebook. Without any verification (in some cases), you can directly login if Facebook smartly recognize your frequently used device.

First, please connect to your frequently used Wi-Fi entry which improve the possibility of success. Open Facebook on your frequently used device and reset your password. If your device is recognized by Facebook, Facebook will automatically provide you the opportunity to reset your password.

Way 2. Use Identity Verification to Reset Password

Another newly launched Facebook feature is identity verification. Now let's see the steps!

STEP 1. Go to Facebook's uploading page of your government ID (https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/contact/183000765122339).

STEP 2. Upload your ID which is saved a JPEG and enter your login email address or mobile phone number. Tap Send.

STEP 3. After receiving Facebook's response in the form of email, you can follow the instruction to recover your account.

Here we go through all the steps of recovering Facebook account. You can first identify your situation and find the targeted solution. Or you can try the last two approaches for resetting password. No matter which situation you are in or which problem you have, you can find a right way to fix the issue. Now take action and protect your Facebook account!

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