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Update your account recovery information
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Start from the Yahoo home page
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Click your name
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Or start from another Yahoo page
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Click the gear icon
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Select Account Info
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You may be asked to re-enter your password
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If so, type your current password and click Sign In
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Now you're on your account page
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Click Account security
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Your account should include one or more mobile phone numbers so we can send you a text message if you need help
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Click here to add or delete a phone number
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Delete this number if it's obsolete
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Click here to add a new number
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Choose the country code for your mobile phone
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Enter the phone number
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Choose to have a verification code sent to you as text or by voice
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When you receive the verification code, enter it here
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Click Verify
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We can also send password reset information to one or more alternate email addresses
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Click here to add or delete email addresses
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These should be non-Yahoo addresses where you can receive messages if you can't access your Yahoo Mail account
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Delete any obsolete email addresses
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Click here to add an email address
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Enter the email address
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Click here to have Yahoo send a verification message to this email address
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Follow the instructions in the email message that Yahoo sends you to verify this address
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If you ever need help with your account, you'll be glad that we have your current contact info!