Change Your Password Day 2025 is on Saturday, February 1, 2025: changing my password?

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To change your password and/or secret questions and answers, read one of these links or follow the steps below them ...

The direct link is ? or if you have forgotten it ...

1. From the Yahoo! Home page, click on your user name in the upper right.(You will need to be signed in already) On the Answers page, it is on the top left. On the mail page it is your username ...

2. From the drop down select Account Info ...

3. You will be asked to sign in again to enter your Account Info page ...

4. Under Sign-In and Security, click Change your password or Update password - reset info. Remember to save the changes ...

5. Enter your current password - again ...

7. Enter and confirm your new password. Enter it twice ...

8. Click Save. You will see a confirmation page when you have successfully changed your password ...

9. Click Continue ...

10. You can also change your secret questions and answers here too, in the Update password-reset info area ..

NOTE: The longer the password, the better, (at least 12 characters), and use mixed symbols, letters and numbers. It only takes a few hours to crack any 8-character alpha-numeric password these days!

*** If you are changing your password because you suspect your account has been compromised, change ALL of your security information so the hacker will not change the password again ...

Start by changing the alternate e-mail address registered to your account, then both the password AND the Secret Questions and Answers. Yahoo allows you to invent your own questions so they will be easier to remember ...

Answers is a Jungle

how to change passwords?

To change your password and/or secret questions and answers, read one of these links or follow the steps below them ...

The direct link is ? or if you have forgotten your password,

1. From the Yahoo! Home page, click on your user name in the upper right.(You will need to be signed in already) On the Answers page, it is on the top left. On the mail page it is your username.

2. From the drop down select Account Info.

3. You will be asked to sign in again to enter your Account Info page.

4. Under Sign-In and Security, click Change your password or Update password - reset info. Remember to save the changes ...

5. Enter your current password - again.

7. Enter and confirm your new password. Enter it twice.

8. Click Save. You will see a confirmation page when you have successfully changed your password.

9. Click Continue.

10. You can also change your secret questions and answers here too, in the Update password-reset info area. Yahoo allows you to invent your own secret questions so they and the answers will be unique and easier to remember!

NOTE: The longer the password, the better, (at least 12 characters), and use mixed symbols, letters and numbers. Start with an easily remembered sentence and make many substitutions. It only takes a few hours to crack any 8-character alpha-numeric password these days. Make the secret questions and answers unique to you, unchangeable, and unable to be guessed.

See for more tips on creating a strong password(and what NOT to use)

*** If you are changing your password because you suspect your account has been compromised, change ALL of your security information so the hacker will not change the password again. Start by changing the alternate e-mail address registered to your account, then both the password AND the Secret Questions and Answers. Yahoo allows you to invent your own questions so they will be easier to remember.

Answers is a Jungle