How Do You Change Your Outlook Password

Alter or update your email countersign

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If you have to change your email password, yous'll need to do that with your e-mail provider (for example, Microsoft 365, Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Xfinity, or a corporate Exchange server). And so you'll demand to update the password in Outlook, the program that displays your email messages and allows y'all to read, reply to, and organize them.

When should I modify my password with my email provider?

Change your password when:

You think someone has stolen or gained access to your email account password
Your email provider has sent yous a password reset link
Yous forgot your email account password

Change your password with your electronic mail provider

Run across the post-obit sections for instructions on irresolute your email account password for several major email providers. If your email account provider isn't listed, contact your admin or the email provider's help desk-bound.

Update the countersign stored in Outlook

Later on you've changed your password with your email provider, when you open and run Outlook, Outlook will ask y'all for the updated password.

To update your password in Outlook for Mac, use the following steps.

On the Tools tab, select Accounts.
In the left pane, select the account you lot desire to alter the password for.
In the right pane, enter a new password in the Countersign box.
Close the Accounts window. Outlook will salve the countersign automatically.