This article is over four years old and some details have changed. For up-to-date help, read “Three Ways to Reset a Lost Admin Password in High Sierra” (5 July 2018). Several years ago, I was helping ...

We all forget a password once in a while. It’s really just a fact of life at this point, but things are a little different when you forget crucial login info for your go-to computer. And if you’ve ...

Not knowing your Mac’s password is like locking yourself out of the house; it’s inconvenient (at best) and always happens at the worst possible time. In our efforts to shield information from others ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

This tutorial will teach you how to reset your admin password in Mac without Apple ID. If you forgot your Apple ID, there is a way to recover your admin password and unblock the computer using the ...

Forgetting your MacBook's password can prevent you from downloading new software, performing installations and accessing some of your information. If your computer is ...

The need to reset or recover your admin password for your account can happen for a variety of reasons – we were once in this position when we messed around with settings on our Mac and then forgot the ...

If you've been locked out of your Mac, don't worry. There are ways to unlock your computer without losing important files. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering ...

One of the most frustrating troubleshooting situations one may come across is when a user has forgotten his or her system password. Luckily, resetting it is pretty straightforward. Joe is a seasoned ...

Passwords are a chief component of an individual’s digital identity, and as such, they require careful consideration when setting them to avoid potential security exploitations. Used by tens of ...

The nice thing about past versions of OS X was that you could establish your own admin password during the set up process when you first installed OS X, but OS X Yosemite no longer does that and it ...