A phone number or an alternate email address is always added to your email account at the time of creation of new account so that in case of password reset, phone number change or any type of setting that you want to do in that situation Microsoft can send a unique code and get you logged in into your outlook or Hotmail account.
A person needs to change his phone number on the account when the person changes his phone number due to many reasons like got married and phone number got changed, or account is too old and very old number is associated with the account and now you are planning to change the number, or you feel like your account can be hacked and for security reasons you want to update the account with new phone number etc. There can be many personal and professional reasons to change the phone number on the account.
So because of lot of hacking problem occurring these days Microsoft has tightened the security for its users and started sending a unique security code to user’s phone numbers.
Let’s walk through the steps required to change the phone number on your Outlook account.
Step 1:-First login to your Hotmail Account. In the upper right corner, click on your display name.
Step 2:- A drop-down box would come and in that choose “Account settings” option.
Step 3:- In the left hand side under “Security and privacy” option, click on “More security settings”.
Step 4:- Under that choose change recovery phone number.
Step 5:- Enter your new phone number that you want to set with country code. Then press ‘Next’.
Step 6:- Make sure you enter the right code and press ‘Next’.
Step 7:- Press ‘Done’. Process is complete.
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