i have a signed on yahoo account on my ipad email. I forgot the password and not able to access the account on other devices. I cannot recover the password because I dont have recovery email access and I have no phone registered as back up too. Anyone know how to get the password that is being used on the ipad?
iPad Air Wi-Fi + Cellular, iOS 10.3.2
You cannot. You will need to deal with Yahoo to reset your password. iOS does not store passwords as plain text, only as encrypted hashes. And iOS does not show email passwords anywhere or by any means as plain human readable text.
The caveat to that is if you use iCloud Keychain - then you can go into safari settings, passwords and unlock your keychain and read your saved passwords. If you don’t use iCloud Keychain, then there is nowhere to read it.
Thank you for the feedback. I did ask yahoo to help and I have tried to reset my password. My main issue now is my recovery email has firewall that blocked the passcode being sent by yahoo. Looks like yahoo is unable to help either.
Good info about the icloud keychain though. My pw is unfortunately not saved there but I may used it for others later.
Thanks again
How to check password of yahoo account on ipad
