It’s rare that anyone has never looked for how to recover a password on VK, because today every person has profiles on social networks and instant messengers. It is difficult to remember the keys, and it is unsafe to use the same ones everywhere.
If you really are the owner of the VK page, and remember the data you entered during registration, plus you use the same mobile phone, then you can quickly restore the data without any problems. But if you are looking for a way to recover your VKontakte password without a phone number, it will take more time.
Is restoration always free?
If you have forgotten your VKontakte password and are looking for how to restore access quickly, never try to solve the problem through third-party resources, applications, and specialists. The only way to restore access is through the official VK website. The rest of the companies are ordinary hackers. Be wary if you are asked to pay for a service, send an SMS, or send money to your wallet.
If your device is infected with a virus, you will most likely receive a message asking you to pay to restore access. We do not recommend sending money to criminals; you may be deceived. First, scan your device with a powerful antivirus. If this does not help, contact a computer technician - you may have to reinstall the operating system.
You may think that the path is too difficult. But remember, this is designed to protect your content. Let personal belongings, even virtual ones, never fall into the wrong hands.
Recovery using mail and phone
First you need to open VKontakte and carefully examine the login form. The top line asks you to enter the phone number associated with your account or a valid email. You must enter your password below. If the user does not remember his password, then he should click on the “Forgot password?” button, which is located at the bottom of the form.
Then you go to the password recovery page.
You must enter an active email address in the line. To do this, you need to disable “caps lock”, switch the font to English and carefully enter the address.
A box will then appear on the screen to confirm that you are not a robot. You need to check the box indicated, then a window will appear where you need to select the correct images and click “Next”. If you don’t understand something in the pictures, you can update them.
A form will then appear asking you to confirm your last name.
After this, the system will prompt you to confirm the page, if it is yours, then do so.
A message with a code will be sent to the phone that was previously linked to the page; you need to enter it in the “received code” line.
After entering the code, you need to click the “change password” button. A form will appear on the screen with two lines in which you need to enter a new password; this must be done twice to avoid making a mistake. First switch the language to English and disable caps lock.
A message will then appear on the screen indicating that the password has been changed successfully. In addition, you will receive a notification about the password change to your phone and email address. The letter will also ask you to fill out an application to restore access to your VK page if you were not the one who performed the above operations. If the entire procedure was carried out by the owner of the page, then you need to enter a new password to log in.
This is how you recover the password for accessing the VK page using phone and email.
Recover login and password by last name
To complete this task, you must know your personal information that is recorded in your account. To access the page follow these steps:
- visit the “Forgot password” menu;
- go to "Personal information"
- type your data on one line, but remember that it must correspond to what is written on your page;
- after that, click “Search”, the computer will filter out all unnecessary things and show the most suitable options for your account, click on your profile, and then click “This is me”;
- A letter will be sent to your email in which you will see a link to change the data you need.
You are not required to enter all the information into the search engine, but the more detail you do, the better the computer will filter out users, and the more convenient it will be for you to choose. Login recovery is an unpleasant process that can be avoided if you are prudent. Attach your phone number and mailbox to your page, and also write down your login and password in a notepad to completely eliminate the possibility of forgetting them. Such precautions will save you from problems with recovery.
Password recovery using email
What should I do if the user does not remember the login information or does not have access to the phone? Then you need to proceed as follows:
- On the access restoration page, under the line where you enter your email, phone number or login, there is a “Click here” button. Click on it and follow the system instructions.
- A window appears on the screen for entering the address of the VK page, for example, https://vk.com/id123. After this, you need to click on the “Next” button. If you don't remember your address, ask your friends for help. When they visit your page, the address is displayed in the browser bar. If you cannot find out the address, then click on the “Click here” button.
- After this, you are taken to the people search page, where you can find your page by last name or first name. The filters on the side make the task much easier: country, school, age, gender, etc.
- If you see your page, then click on the inscription “This is my page.” Then a window will appear on the screen where you need to fill in all the fields: old and active phone number, email, old password. Submit your application and wait, after a while the administration will send a letter to your active email with the results of restoring access.
The password recovery procedure without a phone is complete.
Restoring a Facebook page
The security system on Facebook is higher than on many other resources. The administration of the social network will do everything possible to ensure that your page does not fall into the wrong hands, be it the profile of an ordinary user with a dozen friends or a celebrity account with a million subscribers.
How to find an account on Facebook.
The site rules recommend thinking about the security of the page before the password is forgotten and control over it is lost. For example, the user has the opportunity to select trusted contacts among his friends on the social network who will help restore access to the page.
It is also possible to add a security question to recover your data. This can be done in the page security settings.
But often users are careless about such preventive measures and neglect them. The password is forgotten, access to the account is lost. But this does not mean that you will have to create a new page - it is possible to return access to the old one.
Recovering forgotten data
When registering on Facebook, you must confirm your email address or phone number. Without this, it is impossible to create a new account. To regain control over your profile, you need access to the email or phone number that was specified during registration.
If only the password is forgotten, restoring access takes 1 minute. You just need to indicate your last name or nickname on the site. Within a few seconds, the system will send a short security code in a way convenient for you, with which you can log into your page and immediately change the password in the settings to a more convenient one that you will not forget.
Methods to recover your password on Facebook.
If both the password and user login are forgotten, recovery will take a little longer.
User actions to restore access to the page:
- Go to the main page of the site.
- Below the field for entering authorization data, find the “Forgot your account?” button. and press it.
- The system will offer a method to obtain a temporary access code. This will be the phone or email address you provided during registration. Choose a convenient option.
- You will receive an email or SMS with a short code. Enter it in the appropriate field.
- Set a new convenient password that you will not forget or write down the data in a safe place.
Without access to email and phone
If you are unable to receive the code to the phone number that was specified during registration, or you do not have access to the email account with which you created the account, use the advice of the Facebook security service. Try logging in from a device you've used before; your password manager may have saved your login information. Then you can reset your forgotten password and set a new one. If this doesn't help, try restoring access to your email through your service provider. You will have to go through the procedure of recovering the password for the mailbox.
Procedure for recovering the password to the mailbox.
Without login
The user support service will not be able to help you restore access to the page if you do not control either the email or phone number specified during registration, and do not remember either the password or login. In this case, identification of you as the profile owner is impossible.
Ask your friends or acquaintances from those with whom you communicated on Facebook to go to your page and tell you your forgotten login.
The username is contained in the address bar of the browser. Also, a friend from the site can see on your page the contact information you specified, which can be used to restore access to your profile, even if a different email and phone number were specified during registration.
Try to find a forgotten login using different spellings of your name or nickname if you created the page under a pseudonym.
Reasons for losing access to the VK page
Despite the fact that Vkontakte is a modern server with the best technical equipment, problems with logging in periodically arise. There are several reasons for losing access to your VK account:
- The virus blocks the display of the site. The virus can be carried by special programs and applications for VK. They allow you to download various materials from the site, but after installing them, problems often arise with displaying Vkontakte.
- An incorrectly entered link in the browser line, after which the message “Connection attempt failed” appears.
- Requirement to send a paid message. The page does not open, but instead a window appears asking you to send a paid SMS, after which the person will gain access to the account. It is strictly not recommended to do this! You can solve the problem using a special application, for example, VKontakte Unlock, which will get rid of the virus and periodically scan the system for dangerous media.
- Error 404 when logging into VK, Yandex. This problem occurs due to a virus, to solve it you need to follow these steps:
- Start
- My computer
- Disk C
- Windows folder
- "System32"
- "Drivers"
- "etc" folder
- "hosts" file.
If you have a phone number
So, let's look at it in general:
- Click on the link “Forgot your password?” on the main page of the site or enter into the browser line: https://vk.com/restore (old version https://vkontakte.ru/restore.php)
- Then fill in the line in the window that opens. This is the simplest option - you will receive an SMS with a code to the attached phone number, which you must enter to set a new password. The forgotten password has been restored, and there will be no more difficulties.
Go to the site vk.com. Make sure that this is the site in the browser line, otherwise you may be deceived by a spoofed site. Also, if you are asked to send an SMS, you should not do this, this is a trick of scammers to take money from you. It’s better to check your computer with an antivirus and this useful CureIT utility to search for Trojans and spyware on your computer.
Go to the password recovery page
Recovery form, enter login, phone or email
We will consider the case when you do not remember your login, email or phone number to which your account is linked.
Now enter the captcha
Enter the characters in the field provided, or if it is not clear what is written, you can click on the image and it will update.
Sometimes at this stage you may be asked to provide your last name for verification:
You need to confirm the page being restored
Confirm if this is the correct recovery page.
A code will be sent to your phone, which you must enter in this field.
The code comes via SMS from a VKcom subscriber.
If you didn't receive the code, try clicking "I didn't receive the code." Then it will be resent. You can also try repeating the entire operation from the very beginning, maybe this will help. If you do not have access to this phone number, then you need to familiarize yourself with the recovery methods described a little below.
The code has been resent
When you have entered the received code, a field will open for you to enter a new password - to avoid errors, enter it twice:
Enter a new password
The password will be saved and an SMS will be sent to your phone number containing information about your new password. To avoid possible troubles in the future, we recommend that you delete this message.
What to do if you forgot your Instagram password
If you don’t remember the code word, but know your login and can log into your email, you can restore access pretty quickly. But take your time. First, try to remember your credentials, think maybe you wrote down your key somewhere. Give yourself time if there is no urgent need to go to a social network.
If you were unable to solve the problem yourself, on the Instagram start page, click on the inscription “Forgot your login information? Help with logging in.”
You can also go to instagram.com via your computer and click on the line “Forgot your password?”
There are three ways for you to choose:
Way 1. Log in through your linked Facebook account. To do this, you need a username and password for your account on this social network. Once you've logged into Instagram this way, go to settings and change your password so you don't have the same problem the next time you log in.
Path 2. Enter your username or email in the special field to receive an email with a special link. After that, click “Next”, open the email and follow the link in it.
You will be prompted to enter the new key twice, after which the entrance to the page will be opened. Write down the new code somewhere so you don't have to reset it again.
Way 3. You can change the password through the phone number to which the profile is linked. Enter it in the field, then receive an SMS with a code, enter it on the website or in the application, then enter a new key. After this you will be able to log in to your page.
How to view saved passwords in Google Chrome browser
It must be said that this is one of the most popular browsers at the moment, which is why we will talk about it. Passwords are stored here, to put it mildly, not very securely, but for our situation this is only a plus.
Let's consider, for example, the procedure for viewing saved passwords in Google Chrome.
So, open “Manage and configure Google Chrome”, then “Settings”, select “Show additional settings” (at the very bottom), in the “Forms and passwords” item we find the “Manage saved passwords” item. Next, in the window that appears, select the required resource and press the “Show” button.
Looking at saved passwords in Google Chrome
It all looks something like this. In the same way, you can try to find the password for VKontakte, as well as for mail, and so on.
Here is a video where everything is shown clearly:
Additional options
It happens that password recovery in VK still doesn’t work, but you still don’t want to create a new page. “I can’t afford this,” the user complains, “there are a lot of important correspondence and information there.” It is for you that we will offer another way to restore in VK if nothing else helps.
The fact is that today there are special programs for recovering forgotten passwords. As a rule, they work very simply and quickly, so you shouldn’t have any problems. It is based on the principle of brute-forcing standard passwords or, in other words, Brute passwords.
https://passwordspy.ru/ - here you can get all the necessary additional information and download the program. Please note that the full version is not free. In addition, this method of password recovery should be resorted to only in extreme cases, because some of these programs themselves can steal user information. In turn, we cannot bear any responsibility for your use of software of this kind.
For your convenience, we also attach an overview of this program:
Among other things, sometimes it may make sense to write to support; for some users, this option really helps.
We hope that after our article there will be fewer requests like “VKontakte my page to recover my password.”
Be attentive and careful with your data, because it is rare, but still there are cases when the password cannot be recovered, so you will have to create a new page in any case. These measures are harsh, but they are made for your own safety.
By the way, here is a video that can also help you:
Recovery without password and login
How to restore a page on Odnoklassniki if you have forgotten your login and password? It is very unpleasant when a profile owner encounters such a problem, but it can be solved if you follow the points:
- visit the home page;
- select the menu item “Forgot your password”;
- do this by last name through the “Personal Data” service; if that doesn’t work, then go to the next point;
- complete this operation through your E-mail, to do this, click “Mail”, enter your data, and if the mailbox was attached to your profile, you will receive a letter to change your password;
- another way is ID;
- You can also do this by writing to support, but this method is not simple and effective and is used as a last resort.
