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Can't Reset Gmail Password on a new device?

There is possibility that you have multiple email address, for different reasons, there is also possibility that your main devices through which you access all those accounts gets stolen, lost, bad or something else.
Well, you might remember one of the passwords (perhaps the main account) so what happens to the other accounts?
Well, this brief tutorial would help you access them since the new google security measures makes it almost impossible to use the forgot password option from a new device.
Here are the steps I took which might help you.

  1. Login to you main gmail account (The one that serves as the account recovery email for the other accounts)
  2. Click the Menu (Harmburger-like) option on the top-right-hand side of your screen and click Account
  3. On the new page rendered click the security option that appears on the left hand side
  4. Scroll through your options on the new page and click Password Managerin the signing in to other accounts options
  5. On the new page, search for google to find your associated google accounts
  6. Click on the result (you might have to sign in again with your current gmail password at this point for verification) and woooaaaahhhh, you have your gmail accounts with the passwords that you can use to login there.

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