How to change your X password (and what it logs out)

#Quick answer

To change your password on X (formerly Twitter), go to Settings and privacy, open Your account, and choose Change your password. Type your current password, then the new one twice, and save. The route is the same on iOS, Android and the desktop site. The part almost every guide leaves out: X then logs you out of all your active sessions except the one you are using, so every other phone, browser and signed-in tool will ask you to log in again.

Last updated: September 2026

#The three-minute version

There are two different jobs people mean by this, and they run through different screens.

X documents the same steps for iOS, Android and desktop: navigation menu, Settings and privacy, Your account, Change your password, current password, new password, confirm, save. There is no separate mobile flow to hunt for.

#How to change your password on X step by step

On desktop

1. Click the More icon in the left navigation bar and pick Settings and privacy.
2. Open Your account, then Change your password.
3. Enter your current password.
4. Enter the new password, then type it again to confirm.
5. Click Save.

On iOS and Android

1. Open the navigation menu and tap Settings and privacy.
2. Tap Your account, then Change your password.
3. Enter your current password, the new one, and the confirmation.
4. Tap Done.

If you are still logged in but the current password escapes you, do not start guessing. X's password settings page can send a reset email to the address on the account, which gets you to the same place without the old password.

#What actually happens after you save

This is the section the top-ranking pages skip, and it is the one that costs people an afternoon.

Every other session ends. X's own help page states it plainly: after you change your password, you are logged out of all active X sessions except the one you used to make the change. A reset through the Forgot password flow is stricter and logs you out of everything. So your phone, your work laptop, the tablet you forgot about, and any browser profile you keep signed in will all land back on the login screen. If you sign in mostly through the web, our walkthrough of signing in at x.com on any browser covers the reauthentication path.

Anything holding a browser session breaks too. Tools that operate your account by driving a logged-in browser session lose that session the moment the password changes, and need to be reconnected. That includes X-Autopilot, which runs in your own browser on your own machine, and it includes cloud schedulers that store a session server-side. It is a reconnect, not a fault. Plan for it if you change your password in the middle of a posting week. The wider tradeoff between local and hosted session storage is covered in local vs cloud X automation.

Connected apps are not touched. This surprises people who change a password specifically to lock an intruder out. Third-party applications you authorised live under Apps and sessions in your settings, and X treats them as a separate list from your login sessions. The new password does not revoke them. If you are doing a cleanup, open that list and remove anything you do not recognise, then use Log out all other sessions on the same screen.

Your 2FA method stays as it was. Changing a password neither enables nor disables two-factor authentication. If you have not set it up, that is the change that actually raises the cost of an attack, and turning on X two-factor authentication takes about two minutes with an authenticator app.

#If you cannot log in at all

Use Forgot password? on the sign-in screen at x.com, mobile.x.com, or in the iOS or Android app. Then:

1. Enter your email address, phone number, or username. One caveat from X's documentation: if several accounts share the same phone number, you cannot use the phone number at this step. Use the email or the username instead.
2. Pick where to send the code. X sends a reset email immediately, or a text if the number is on the account.
3. Enter the code. It is valid for 60 minutes. Expired codes are the most common reason a reset silently fails, and the fix is to request a fresh one rather than retype the old one.
4. Choose the new password.

If no email arrives, check the spam folder, then confirm you are checking the exact address on the account rather than a newer one you never added. X also flags the reverse problem: repeated password reset emails you did not request usually mean someone is running your address through the recovery flow, which is a signal to secure the email account first.

If you have lost access to both the email and the phone, be realistic about the odds. X's guidance is that you need one of them, and that without either you may have to create a new account. That is a hard answer, and it is the honest one.

#Picking a password X will accept and an attacker will not

X's security guidance is specific rather than vague:

• At least 10 characters. Longer is better.
• Mixed case, numbers and symbols.
• No personal information such as birthdays or phone numbers.
• No dictionary words or keyboard runs like qwerty or abcd1234.
• Never reused on another site.

One addition that matters more than the password itself: give the email account behind X its own strong, unique password. Every recovery path ends at that inbox, so an attacker who owns the email owns the X account regardless of how good the X password is.

While you are in there, turn on password reset protection. X describes it as a setting in your account settings that requires your email address or phone number, or both if both are on file, before a reset link or code can be sent. It closes the easiest path someone has to take an account from you, and it costs nothing.

#When you should change it, and when it is theatre

Rotating a password on a schedule for its own sake achieves very little. Change it when there is a reason:

• A login alert or a session in Apps and sessions from a place you have never been.
• Posts, follows, DMs or profile edits you did not make. That is the compromise playbook, and what to do when an X account is hacked walks the full recovery order.
• You typed the password into a site that turned out not to be x.com. Fake login pages remain the single most effective attack on this platform, and the giveaway is always the domain in the address bar.
• A breach at another service where you reused the same password.
• You shared access with a contractor, an agency or a tool and the relationship ended. Change the password, then revoke the apps, because as covered above the first does not do the second.

Doing all of it in the wrong order wastes the effort. Secure the email inbox, change the X password, log out all other sessions, revoke unknown apps, then enable two-factor authentication. Any other sequence leaves a door open behind you.

#The one habit that beats all of this

Most people who lose an X account permanently did not lose it to a clever attack. They lost it because the recovery email was an address from a job they left in 2019 and the phone number was a SIM they cancelled. Open Your account now and check that both are current. That five-second check is worth more than any password you will choose today.

If you run your account with tooling rather than by hand, it is worth knowing where your credentials sit. X-Autopilot keeps the session on your own Mac in your own browser rather than in a shared cloud, which means fewer places your login can leak from than a hosted tool has, not zero places. The honest version of that tradeoff is in is X-Autopilot safe, and you can try it on your own machine if the local approach fits how you work.