How To Change Your Password On A Chromebook

[@vee_the_alien]

I love how simple and straightforward your tutorials are! This helped me even more than the official Google help page.

[@techtimewithtimmy]

I'm glad I could help!

[@grahambarrett217]

Excellent. I needed to know how to set up a pin and it was explained accurately and easilly

[@techtimewithtimmy]

I'm glad I could help!

[@masterrolly6278]

Thanks a lot for this. It was quite helpful to me

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome, I'm glad to hear it!

[@АлександрДудик-с2е]

Дякую, ваше відео допомогло мені вирішити проблему зміни пароля для Хромбука

[@techtimewithtimmy]

Будь ласка, я радий, що зміг допомогти!

[@kevdogyt08ti]

Thanks Timmy. I was wondering about having the PW different from your Google profile PW (the PIN method).

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome. Pin is my preferred method for logging into my Chromebook.

[@kevdogyt08ti]

@@techtimewithtimmy Yes, Timmy. I just switched my Chromebook to pin now as well (after I watched your video). Is the better way I think, I gotta agree with you my friend.

[@dwightmenard8638]

Thank you very much.

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome!

[@pierceminutillo5668]

Is It Possible To Change Your Password Back To A Previous One? I Changed It A Couple Months Ago But Need To Change It Back To The Previous One.

[@techtimewithtimmy]

I'm not actually sure. There's no button that will automatically revert it to a previous password, but you could try resetting the password and just type the old one in. Sometimes websites have restrictions on re-using old passwords, I'm not sure if Google does or not because I've never tried it myself, but there would be no harm in trying.

[@pierceminutillo5668]

@@techtimewithtimmy Thanks For The Advice!

[@aung-au7ng8ky]

Thanks 🙏 you so much it work

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome! I'm glad I could help!

[@Zalmoxiss]

Thanks mate!

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome!

[@tobiastheartisticmale6540]

What about local data getting lost? (It happened to me once, I made more progress on my new thing, I don’t want it to happen again)

[@techtimewithtimmy]

Assuming you know your old password, you will need to enter it as shown at 5:29 in this video, and that will allow you to keep all your local data. Unfortunately if you don't remember your old password, there's nothing you can do, but as long as you know your old password, and enter it when prompted, you won't lose anything.

[@tobiastheartisticmale6540]

@@techtimewithtimmyok thank you so much for that answer

[@tobiastheartisticmale6540]

@@techtimewithtimmy because honestly I accidentally changed my password while trying to sign into KZbin kids (don’t ask why) & I honestly wanna change my password back to the old one tbh

[@AdamMcCann]

thank you so much

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome!

[@MA-qr6jj]

Thank you

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome!

[@sahrawakehouse8959]

I'm having an issue getting the "Sign-in error" notification to pop up on my Dell Chromebook. It's an older model, and it doesn't want to register that I've changed my password. I even tried signing out of my Chromebook and signing back into it with my old password, shutting it down completely, and turning it back on. My Chromebook doesn't seem to realize that I've changed my password twice. I'm stuck using the old password that I originally had on it. I even tried to get help on the Google help page and was unsuccessful. I don't know what to do. Also, I can sign into my Google account with the new password, however, I cannot sign into my Chromebook with the new password because it won't register the change properly. Is there another way to get a Chromebook to register a new password in the vent that the "sign-in error" notification doesn't pop up?

[@techtimewithtimmy]

Sorry, but I've never seen that happen before, and I don't know any way to get around it other than to powerwash (factory reset) the Chromebook, which is a fairly long process as you would need to backup and restore everything.

[@KevinP32270]

THANKS.

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome!

[@JordanMoore-g4z]

thx timmy

[@techtimewithtimmy]

You're welcome!

[@acedarius5408]

It is asking me to sign in my Google account and when I do it says the account is already added? But it doesn't sign me in my account

[@occamsrazor9183]

I've been locked out of my Chromebook for two years because I forgot the password, so you are saying I just put in my google email that will sign me in?

[@occamsrazor9183]

Oh, yeah, I don't remember the password, I want to not lose mt saved things, hmm...

[@techtimewithtimmy]

Unfortunately, there's no way to access the files saved to the Chromebook without the password, it's all encrypted and can't be unencrypted without it. Even resetting the password doesn't help with that because you still have to enter the original password to access your data. Are you sure you don't know the password and don't have it saved anywhere? It's the same one you'd use to sign in to any Google website on any computer.

[@conniecostner9665]

I've been trying this for hours and I'm couldn't be verified

[@occamsrazor9183]

@@conniecostner9665 I just force stopped mine and reset it to factory...

[@testing12357]

I tried this ... no notification that password was changed? So now I need to wait for some RANDOM time frame for this change to take effect? What happened to the simple days when changing a password was just that a simple change?

[@techtimewithtimmy]

I kind of agree, it would have made things easier if your Chromebook password didn't have to be linked to your Google Account password like this. (Or at least if changing it worked reliably and properly). Microsoft kind of does the same thing now, forcing your Windows computer password to be your Microsoft password. I really don't know why they do this.

[@shokriasharifi9299]

It does not work for me