Sign in with a password

The screen is titled Enter your password and says Sign in to continue. It has one field and several controls.

Under the form you can also choose:

• Sign in with a passkey, to use a passkey instead. See Sign in with a passkey.
• Email me a sign-in link, to get a link and a code instead of typing the password. See Sign in with an emailed link or code.
• Use a different email, to go back to the first screen and start again with another address.

In the footer, Forgot password? opens account recovery. Each of these controls appears only when it applies to you.

1. The Password field.
2. Sign in.
3. Email me a sign-in link.
4. Forgot password?, in the footer.

What follows a correct password depends on the account and on where you came from. One or more of these can appear, roughly in this order:

1. The second step, when your account has one and the sign-in looks unusual, or when an application or organization requires it. You can answer it, Email me a code instead, or choose Continue with my password only (limited session). If a passkey is your only second step and you have lost it, there is also an I lost my passkey link to account recovery.
2. Confirm a new browser or place, when the sign-in looks unfamiliar.
3. Choose a password, when the account has none.
4. Add a passkey offer, where the platform offers to create a passkey.
5. Choose an organization, when your account belongs to more than one (or Create your workspace, when the application needs one and you have none).
6. Allow access, when an application asks to see your account.

Every human account has a password. If yours has none (an account made before that was required, or one that only ever signed in with a link or a passkey), the sign-in stops at a screen titled Choose a password that says Every account needs a password. Choose one to finish signing in. Its window title is also Choose a password.

No session exists until the password is saved: you cannot skip the screen by going straight to the application. The screen comes after the second step and the new-browser check, so an account that has an authenticator app or a passkey has to answer one of them first; a lone emailed link is never enough to set a first password on such an account. A password you have just typed on this very sign-in counts as the password, so that sign-in is not asked again. An account that an organization manages, and machine accounts, are never shown the screen. The same rule means recovery and registration both end with a password; see Recovering your account.

You are not asked to choose a password after typing one; that screen is for sign-ins that did not use a password, on an account that has none.

A password you cannot remember is not a dead end: use Forgot password?, or sign in with a passkey or an emailed link if you have one.

You change a password from your account, not from this screen. See Security and passkeys. Changing it also signs your other devices out. See Sessions and devices.

• Start with your email or username
• Optional extra steps, where a password or a code is asked as an extra step