An OLX profile allows you to buy and sell your goods in a fairly extensive community of users who also seek to buy and sell services or goods, which are advertised through this platform. This online marketplace is quite popular for classified ads and offers versatility of buying, selling and exchanging goods and services among its users.
In what ways can I recover the OLX password?
To change the password at the time you log in, you must enter the OLX page or the application, choose the option to log in to your account and press ‘continue with Gmail’. Now you must enter your email and then press the option ‘Forgot your password?’, to start a password change with a recovery email that will be sent to your Gmail account.
If you normally log in from the browser; to recover your OLX password you must open the OLX site and click on ‘My account’, then click on ‘I can’t log in’; You must enter your email and a new password, now you must repeat the new password to confirm and press the ‘Change’ option.
The next thing will be that you must access your email and look in the inbox for the email that contains the confirmation link that has been sent by the site, in case it is not in the inbox it can be in the Junk or Spam folder. This verification reinforces the security and privacy of the site.
If you have the OLX application on your Android mobile, to change your profile password you must enter the application and select ‘Log in with an OLX account’ and then press the ‘I forgot my password’ option; Now you must enter your email address to receive the password recovery link in your mailbox.
You must access your email and check your inbox for OLX mail, if it is not in the inbox, it could be in the spam or spam box; Once found, you must open the email and press the link in it to access OLX and change your password to log in again.
Is it necessary to modify the OLX email to change my password?
To make a change in the password of your OLX account you do not need to change your email; in fact, when you are going to make a password change you must make sure that the email address that you have written to receive the recovery link is the same email address that you used to create your OLX account, if you enter a mail from outside your account cannot be retrieved.
In the event that when making a password change, they enter an email that is not the one you used when creating the account; the platform will not accept the email because it will not recognize you as a user. This ensures that someone else cannot access your OLX account and change your password without your knowledge.
What are the reasons why I should change an OLX password?
Changing the password regularly is quite useful on all platforms. If you’re signed in on a computer other than your own, it can be a good security measure to change your password to prevent others from accessing your account. You can also change your password if you have ever shared this information with another person and want to prevent them from accessing your profile.
In case you are logged in to a public browsing site or on a computer to which several people besides you have access, changing your password may prevent the ‘Save passwords’ option (which is present in many browsers) can be used so that other people usurp your identity or steal the data stored in your OLX account, remember that they can make bank details within this platform.
What if I forgot my OLX password and can’t change it?
If you’ve forgotten your OLX password and you can’t change it because you don’t have access to the email linked to your account (this is the way to recover your password) you have the option to do an email recovery; To do this, you must have the phone number that you used to register in your Google account active.
Email recovery is done by entering Gmail and entering your email (the one you used for your OLX account), instead of entering the password you must press the option ‘Have you forgotten your password?’, and follow the steps indicated by the site, you will receive a message with a code to be able to put a new password to your email and be able to access it again. Once this is done, you can request your recovery email from OLX.
There is also the option of entering a link that shows your saved passwords, when you enter here you must identify yourself with your email and you will be able to see the passwords you use on various sites and the email with which you access them. The passwords cannot be seen with the naked eye, so you must press the eye icon to make them visible and recover the one you have forgotten.
Is it possible to change the password while inside the OLX account?
It is possible to change the password while inside your OLX profile, to do so you must enter your profile and press ‘My ads’ (in the upper right corner of the page), press the ‘settings’ option and now enter your current password and the new password that you want to place, to finish, press the ‘save’ option and that’s it. You will be able to access your OLX profile with your email and your new password.
