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title: "How do I change my Gmail account password?"  
description: "How do I change my Gmail account password?"  
author: "Jivika Rai"  
published: 2017-12-06  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31411/how-do-i-change-my-gmail-account-password  
category: "social networking"  
tags: ["google gmail and gtalk"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# How do I change my Gmail account password?

How do I change my [Gmail](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12524/google-will-not-scan-your-gmail-account-for-ad-personalization) [account](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/33699/how-tech-is-disrupting-the-accounting-world) [password](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/243/how-to-create-password-protected-report)?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

**Password changing is very genuine as our Gmail account is been used in most of the places over the web.** For **security reasons,** one should **keep changing** the password of his/her Gmail account as there are so many emails present in your Gmail which might be not shareable with other and changing your password within a decent period of times as it also **reduces the chances of accounts being hacked.**

**You can change your Gmail account password easily by following these step:** \

- At first open Gmail on your web browser with your phone/tablet/laptop etc.
- Go to the settings of your account.

![How do I change my Gmail account password?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/2e74d4ba-a21e-4efb-a886-521ce9a0cf4f/images/baff53fe-63e8-445c-a29c-f73c89db845a.png)\

- Tap or click on the “Accounts and Import” which will be given at the top.
- Then go the change account settings.
- After that tap on change password.

![How do I change my Gmail account password?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/2e74d4ba-a21e-4efb-a886-521ce9a0cf4f/images/29e5541f-d98a-4edd-9b58-ad24c972b1c5.png)\

- You will be demanded to re-enter your current password just to verify it’s you who is changing the password.
- After entering that you will be asked to enter your new password twice and your Gmail account password will get changed.

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