Now Is a Good Time to Update Your Recovery Email Addresses

Further down the page is a list of all the devices you're currently signed in to, which can help you spot suspicious activity.Google uses three pieces of information to verify your identity.You'll see a box labeled “Ways that we can verify that it's you.” This is where all the key information for recovering accounts is held: a phone number and an email address that Google can utilize to verify your identify, as well as security questions that might also be asked if you're requesting access to a locked Google account (pick a question with an answer that you will never forget but that no one else will ever guess).Click Recovery email to make sure this particular piece of information is right up to date—you can change it if it's not. In the case of Twitter, for example, from the web homepage you can click the three dots inside a circle on the left, then Settings and privacy, then Your account and Account information to see all of the data that Twitter has on you—including the cell number and the backup email address associated with your Twitter account.Not all accounts make use of an email address for account recovery and security purposes—some of them might ask you to verify your identify through a notification sent to an app on your phone, for example, or through a code sent over SMS—but where the option is available, we highly recommend checking that it's set correctly.More From WIREDContact© 2022 Condé Nast.