I’ve had enough of forgetting passwords

AJkuku wrote:

is there a way to unlock my Mac book air if I forgot my login

password

click here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860

Welcome and thank you for reaching out. 🤗

If you have forgotten your Mac login password; after trying three attempts, you should find an option to reset your password with your Apple Account.

From there, you simply follow the prompts and your Mac should simply restart like normal.

NOTE: You may need to sign back into iCloud and other services after the successful login.

For a complete step-by-step guide, click here.

Contact Support:

• United States: 1-800-APLCARE.
• Contact Support.

Additional Support:

• Mac Support.
• Mac User Guide.

Good luck! 👋🏼😉

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unless you have your 28-digit recovery key, a proper 2FA e.g. a yubikey, trusted devices or recovery contact, even save numbers.. if you loose your recovery key… it’s on u tho

I always have my account recovery key like in my safe.. and if you still own a printer screenshot —> print 👍🏻.

That way your also practicing good security hygiene.. never leaving a screen shot of your recovery keys.. and I just for fun I deregister my phone number linked with iMessages because it removes it from any stray devices.

good

luck

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i’m going to assume a different question: that you haven’t yet forgotten your password, but believe you may or will…

Put the password or maybe a carefully-considered hint in the password hint box.

Or use a Sharpie to write the password in small-ish print across the bottom of the Mac (literally write right on it), or write inside the Mac carry sleeve, or a note on the front of the refrigerator or on your work desk or drawer or the bottom of the external keyboard or wherever else is a consistent spot in your life. Write small, so you have room for password changes. Or borrow a label-maker and stick the password sticker or a password hint somewhere handy, and not hand-written with a Sharpie. 😉

Password books can sometimes be helpful, or can sometimes be lost. One person of my acquaintance tried using a book, and then had several password books, having lost and found and re-lost and re-found them over time. Passwords were less than completely recorded and consistent.

Get some decorative stickers with memorable colors or phrases, adhere them to the MacBook Air, and use those to help remember the password. YellowStarGreenDot, or a sticker with a favorite song lyric, etc.

If you’re musically-inclined, use two keyboard keys and drum your password to your favorite refrain or drum solo, snd put the music in a sticker on the Mac. Passwords don’t have to be words, they can be patterns.

Set up a Recovery Contact, which can then be used to regain access to your Apple Account, and from there you can use the Apple Account to regain access to the Mac account. Using your Apple Account to regain access to the Mac is listed in the forgotten-Mac-login-password support article linked else-thread.

If you want to get differently-fancy, use Passwords app and archive the current passwords onto a flash drive, and zip-tie that to your chair or bed frame or desk.

A guy who worked for me years ago used to post stickies (paper stickies) on his work computer screen with various passwords.

I have an encrypted file stored in the cloud that has all my passwords.

That said, that file's password as well as the passwords to my Mac and my wife's Mac are strings that we will not forget, they have special meaning to us. But each of us knows the other's password, and I have also shared them with my adult daughter.

One can also use the Password app.

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