Here is a guide on how to change and reset your Mac password even if you have completely forgotten your Mac password.
It’s easy to forget the administrator password on your Mac if you don’t use it to log in every day.
This password is used to authenticate new application installations, perform system updates, and log in to your user account if your computer starts the login screen.
Fortunately, there are multiple ways to access this password, change it, or protect it with your Apple ID to prepare yourself for success later.
How to Change Your Password on Mac
Here are the steps you need to take to change your password on your Mac computer.
Watch the video above to see different ways to reset your password on your Mac.
Reset Your Mac Password
if you are having problems to remember your password or attempts are not working, check again caps Lock and see if you have a password clue enabled. a question mark icon If you initially added a hint to your password in the password field.
Good initiative as well Apple ID password, if you set them to be the same. If that doesn’t work, see if your tip will give you a memory jolt. In most cases, people can remember their passwords by hint, but there are times when our own cryptic hints surprise us!
To reset your password you will need to use Recovery Mode option to boot your mac by restarting and holding command and R same time. This was used to troubleshoot startup issues involving Flashing Folder with Question mark to sound familiar.
Recovery Mode on Mac has several diagnostic and troubleshooting tools, but the tool we need to access is this: terminal. Terminal is normally used as a command line application and can be variously dangerous under untrained hands. But for our use, the steps are pretty simple.
When terminal opens, type “reset password” and press the Return key on your keyboard. You should see the Terminal app close and another app will open to reset your password. you will be able to make your choice Hard Disk and then user you are currently trying to reset.
Changing the password will also require resetting the password. entry keychain. This is the utility that remembers and stores all your passwords on your Mac for you, but they depend on your original password. Changing this password will no longer allow you to access these passwords and Keychain Access will constantly annoy you about it.
Opening the Keychain Access utility, accessing Preferences, and Reset My Default Keychain this will allow you to delete the old log and create a new one with your new password.
After performing this reset, sign in out your account and then back in again with your new password to start the new login keychain.
Reset with Another Account
If you are not the only administrator account on your computer, you can reset your password by: another manager log in.
You can highlight the user in question by accessing your System Preferences and then Users & Groups and change the password is there. You will also be able to create a new one. Clue to accompany your password this hopefully never happens again.
This is not always the best option as you need to find the person with the other Administrator account or know their password. However, if this information is available, it is actually a too fast password reset method.
To make these changes you will need to perform the above and log out and back in.
Reset with Apple ID
On some versions of OS X, you can save your Login password as . After making multiple attempts to sign in, you may end up with a message stating that you can reset your login password with your Apple ID.
If this option appears, follow the onscreen steps and sign in with your Apple ID and your Mac’s password. Once your changes are saved you will be prompted and then you can login and create your new login keychain.
When we lose our passwords, some tasks that we need to perform especially important software updates can be performed virtually. Using these steps will hopefully get you back to your Mac and help you create a new password that you can easily or quickly have.
