Emails have given us the ability to share information with other people, have become an indispensable tool in our lives. Thanks to these platforms it was possible to share any type of electronic file, communication between us became easier and a world full of possibilities opened.
Hotmail at this time known as Outlook is an email server designed primarily to send, receive and store files of any kind. According to the latest report presented by the company, Hotmail has more than 400 millions of users worldwide.
This platform was developed by the company Microsoft, it was the first electronic messaging service to offer a totally free service in the world, so it revolutionized the whole system.
How do I change or update my phone number in my Hotmail account?
Hotmail has always been characterized by striving to protect the identity of its users by offering us different modalities to protect our accounts. One of them is to confirm our identity through a text message that will reach us on our cell phones.. For this action the cell phone must already be registered in the mail.
But for being one of the oldest email services, it is common that we have lost our cell phone or that it has not been stolen. Therefore, when verifying our identity, we can not do it. Or we just change phones and want change the new number linked to the Outlook or Hotmail account.
In this post, we will learn step by step how to change or update the phone number of my Hotmail account.
Steps to change or update our phone number in Hotmail (Outlook)
- The first thing we must do is open the browser of our preference and enter the Hotmail official page For later enter our Hotmail account, using email address and password.
- Once we enter, We must choose in the upper right where our name or our profile image is located. A tab will open with various options and click on View Account.
- A bar will appear with different actions that we can do, we will select the one that says safety. In this we find three main options, we must click on the second, In other words, update security information.
- We will be asked to verify our identity and a box will appear informing us that a security code will be sent to us by text message.
- But since we don't have that number, whether it was not stolen or lost, we will press “I don't have any of the alternatives”. And then next.
- Later, we will be prompted to select the way we want to replace the security information.
- Choose between whether we want to add a Email alternativo or add a phone number. We will dial a phone number.
Later we select the country where we live and below we will write the number of our cell phone. Once this is done we must select between if we want check our number by a call or a text message. We suggest checking by text message. Then we click Next.
A code will arrive on our cell phone which we must write in the bar that says this code to verify that the number we add is correct. And we move on next.
How to change the phone number in Hotmail from mobile?
If you are changing the phone number in Hotmail, You just have to do the following, In the window of your email you must go up and to the right where your photo or user image appears, right where you close your window, then click on 'Edit profile', Click on 'Profile’ and later above your date of birth to click on the contact information just below 'Modify', enter your phone number and you're done.
For this, among the things we can Edit Within this section, we found the name, age, sex, profession, direction, country, town, zip code and phone number. We can modify this data without problem, despite this, We must know that they will not be disclosed and that even this can help us if we ever have problems with our account. Panorama. In conclusion, we have to press the save button and with this the data will appear correctly.
I'm having trouble changing the phone number in my Outlook account: What should I do?
Mainly after having an account at panorama, the procedure for change phone it's really simple and fast.
- The first thing you should do is enter your account.
- Later you must locate where your profile photo is and look for the option to edit profile.
- Later we go to the top and select the part where it says 'Contact information'.
- Once there, you will be able to see all the data that has been entered. Select 'Add phone number’ and enter the new.
- Check the option where you want the confirmation code to be sent, either by message or by call.
- Then click on 'Send'.
- Enter the verification code, which should go up to the number you added.
- By last, click the word icon, found next to the phone number above. In this way it will be deleted and you will have already changed or modified your number.
You can continue using your Hotmail account as you did until now
A text will appear informing us that we can continue to use our account as we do regularly. In addition, for our security, the procedure for updating the data that we have placed it will take a time of 30 days.
We will achieve keep accessing to all our devices or platforms linked to this email as we do in the usual way. The only actions that will not be available during these 30 days are those that require security information.
You can also periodically ask us to confirm that we have requested changes to the safety information.
Thus, We just have to wait 30 days for our information to be updated, in this circumstance our phone number. Once this time has elapsed we can verify our account. Then we give click Done. In conclusion it is recommended close the open sessions of your account and reopen our account and confirm that we have made changes.
