Every time you unlock your Mac, you need to input the password to get through. However, if you are lazy like me, then you might not want to login to your Mac every now and then. Well, there are workarounds to bypass Mac password. In this post, we have discussed two methods which could work to unlock Mac without password, one when you have the access and other when you have forgotten your Mac login password.
Note: If you try to change other Mac Administrator's password, it will show you that resetting the account password doesn't reset the password for the user's 'login' keychain. To reset or create the password for the 'login' keychain, use Keychain Access, located in the Utilities folder on Mac.
Condition 1: User Can Still Access Mac
- Oct 18, 2016 In this article, I am going to explain how to reset your Mac login or admin password if you forgot it by chance. There are certain ways and methods that you can employ to reset the password of you Mac OS X in case you forgot it. There might be many ways of resetting the Mac password but I am explaining the three ways that I am familiar with.
- QuickBooks will then guide you through creating a new admin password. How to reset your admin password (2020) If you’re the administrator of your company file, here’s how to reset your password. From the Password field, select the lock icon. You’ll see a pop-up menu listing recovery email addresses.
- Jan 17, 2014 To reset the administrator password when running Lion or later: Restart the Mac while holding down the Option key, and double-click the icon for the Recovery partition. A Mac OS X Utilities screen appears. Choose Utilities Terminal. In Terminal, type resetpassword. Rather unusually for a task performed from the command line, a graphical Reset.
If you can access your Mac, then you can activate automatic login for any of the user accounts for Mac. To do that, follow these steps:
- Click Apple icon and Go to System Preferences.
- Now click Users & Groups.
- You will get Users & Groups window, click padlock sign at the bottom left corner and enter a password to make the settings editable with administrator rights.
- Locate Login Options from the left panel of the window. You will get Automatic Login Option. To activate automatic login without a password, toggle to turn on.
- You will get a list to select the certain username for which you want automatic login.
- A dialog box will appear. Enter the user password to confirm the changes.
- Restart your Mac and now you can automatically login to your Mac with the chosen user.
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Condition 2: User Has Forgotten Password To Login
It is sad and unfortunate if you have forgotten your Mac login credentials, but luckily, you can bypass the forgotten Mac password.
You get to log in to your Mac with two methods:
- Resetting Administrator Password
- Create New Administrator Password
After using any of the two you can set the Automatic login to any of the users you want.
Method 1 – Use Another Administrator To Reset Password
If you have access to another admin account then it is the easiest way to reset forgotten password for your Admin account. Follow these steps to get it done-
- Turn on your Mac and log in with another administrator account.
Mac Asking For Admin Password
- Go to Apple icon, select System Preferences->Users & Groups. Click padlock and enter an admin password to unlock the settings.
- Now choose the admin account for which you want to reset a password. Click Reset password beside user account.
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- You will get an option to enter a new password and re-enter to confirm. Once done, click Change Password, this will reset the password. You can remove the password by not entering any password and save changes.
- Now login to the admin account for which you have reset a password, and restart your Mac.
Method 2 – Use Apple ID to reset admin account password
This step would work only if the admin account is associated with Apple ID on your Mac. If it is, then follow these steps to reset a password on your Mac.
- Turn on your Mac and choose admin account with forgotten password to sign in.
- Enter an incorrect password and you will get a message to reset a password with Apple ID, click on it.
- Now enter Apple ID credentials and click Reset Password.
- You will get a message, click OK. If you change the password for the user, you will create a new keychain.
- Now input a new password, twice to confirm and click Reset Password. This will reset a password with Apple ID.
- Now use new admin password to access Mac and create a new keychain.
Note: If you don’t remember Apple ID credentials, you can reset it from the login page by answering security questions.
See Also: How to Restore Your Mac With Time Machine
Method 3: Use Password Recovery Utility:
Mac has an inbuilt Password Recovery tool. This should be considered as the last resort. You can use this method even if you don’t have Apple ID associated with the admin account or don’t have another admin account. Follow these steps to reset your password:
- Turn on your Mac and press and hold Command and R key together when you see grey colored screen till you get Apple logo.
- Now, Mac will start in recovery mode.
- Once it comes up, click Go To->Utilities->Terminal.
- In the terminal window, type resetpassword and hit Return key. Don’t close the terminal window.
- Go to Reset Password Utility, select the user for which you want to reset password then click Next.
- Now if your admin account is associated with Apple ID then enter the password for Apple ID. If not, you will get to reset a new password for your admin account.
- Once done, reboot your Mac to save the changes. You can use the same method again if you want to reset a password for more than one accounts.
So, in this way you can reset a password for your admin account and set automatic login for easily to unlock Mac without a password. Try them and let us know if you face any issues in Bypassing Mac password
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So, you’re trying to use your Mac, but you can’t get past the login screen because you don’t remember your password. First, you should make sure that the Caps Lock isn’t on, because passwords are case sensitive. Then, you should try using your password hint by clicking on the question mark in the password field. But if you still can’t log in, don’t contact Apple Support yet. Here’s how to reset your admin password on a Mac, even if you forgot your admin password.
How to Reset Admin Password on Mac
The easiest way to reset your admin password is to enter recovery mode. Here’s how to do that:
- Restart your Mac. You can only access the recovery mode while the laptop is booting up, which is why you need to restart it.
- While it is restarting, press and hold the Command + R keys until you see the Apple logo. If you see the login screen, you will have to restart and repeat this step again until you get to Recovery Mode.
- Go to the Apple Menu at the top and click Utilities. This will open a drop-down menu.
- Then click Terminal.
- Type “resetpassword” in the terminal window. Don’t use any space in between the words.
- Then hit Enter. This will open the Reset Password Assistant screen.
- Type your password and a hint.
Note: If you have several user accounts or an older Mac, you will have to select “forgot all passwords,” then select the user account you want to reset the password for. Finally, you will have to click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner and select Restart from the drop-down menu.
- Finally, click Restart. Once you get to the Login screen, select the admin user you just reset the password for and type your new password. Click Enter.
How to Reset your Password Using you Apple ID
If you try to log in several times, you will see a pop-up message asking if you want to reset your password with your Apple ID. Follow these steps to continue:
- Click the arrow to use your Apple ID.
- Enter your Apple ID and password.
- Then hit Enter. Right after this, you will be asked to restart your computer.
- Click Restart to continue.
- Log in with your new password.
If you can get to your desktop, then you have successfully reset or changed your password.
How to Reset your PasswordUsing Another Admin Account
If your Mac has more than one users, and youknow the login credentials to another one of the accounts, you can use thataccount to log in and reset your password. Here’s how:
- Log in to another admin account.
- Go to System Preferences. You can find this in your Applications folder.
- Next, click Users & Group.
- Click on the padlock in the bottom-left corner of the window. You will have to enter the username and password of that user again.
- Select the user you want to reset the password for, then click Reset Password.
- Fill in the necessary fields and hit Enter.
- Then log out of the current user account. This will bring you to the Login screen.
- Log in to the account you just changed the password for.
If you’re still having problems, and you want to install or reinstall macOS in your computer to wipe it clean and give it a fresh OS, check out our previous article here.