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Hi, my wife and I have recently become concerned about the security of our primary IMAP email accounts. We both use gmail as our primary accounts and my wife has 3 more secondary addresses linked to her primary account.
We both use Apple Mail as an email client on ourMac Books, iPhones and on my wife's iPad.
We have both had our gMail accounts for over 8 years so you can imagine we have fairly simple passwords. We have never been tempted to change them before but the recent focus on online security, identity theft and hacking has us considering a change.
We have committed all of the security no-no's over time sharing the same password for different sites etc. It was never really an issue till recent times.
So I have looked online for a complete set of instructions on how to do this, avoiding all of the problems mentioned by so many. Will changing the primary account password effect secondary gMail accounts?
Should I delete the password for the account from KeyChain first or delete the account completely on my MacBook and create a new one with the new password. Should I do this also on my iPhone or just change the password in Settings >Mail, Contacts, iCal?
You can see I have a lot of questions, all prompted by reading the online tales of woe from others trying to do the same thing. It seems there are all sorts of problems to avoid but no definitive set of step by step instructions for multiple iDevices and apps.
I would like to; a. Change my password at Google settings > change password.
b. Change password in Mail setting on my iPhone and iPad and have everything work as before, but the articles I have read give me no faith that it will be that easy (is it ever?).
If anyone can help with this we would both be very grateful.
Rod
We both use Apple Mail as an email client on ourMac Books, iPhones and on my wife's iPad.
We have both had our gMail accounts for over 8 years so you can imagine we have fairly simple passwords. We have never been tempted to change them before but the recent focus on online security, identity theft and hacking has us considering a change.
We have committed all of the security no-no's over time sharing the same password for different sites etc. It was never really an issue till recent times.
So I have looked online for a complete set of instructions on how to do this, avoiding all of the problems mentioned by so many. Will changing the primary account password effect secondary gMail accounts?
Should I delete the password for the account from KeyChain first or delete the account completely on my MacBook and create a new one with the new password. Should I do this also on my iPhone or just change the password in Settings >Mail, Contacts, iCal?
You can see I have a lot of questions, all prompted by reading the online tales of woe from others trying to do the same thing. It seems there are all sorts of problems to avoid but no definitive set of step by step instructions for multiple iDevices and apps.
I would like to; a. Change my password at Google settings > change password.
b. Change password in Mail setting on my iPhone and iPad and have everything work as before, but the articles I have read give me no faith that it will be that easy (is it ever?).
If anyone can help with this we would both be very grateful.
Rod