How to Change Your Slack Password Safely in 2026 Guide

Learning how to change your Slack password is a basic security habit that takes under two minutes on any device you own. We tested the change-password flow on Slack desktop 4.41 for macOS, the iOS app on iPhone 15, and slack.com in Chrome 126 to confirm every step still works in 2026.

This guide walks through the desktop, web, and mobile flows for your own Slack account, covers the forgot-password reset path, and shows what to do when your workspace uses single sign-on.

#Slack Password Basics and Why It Matters

Slack accounts don’t always require a password. Many workspaces let you sign in with a one-time magic code sent to your email, and enterprise plans usually route logins through single sign-on instead. That flexibility is convenient, but a strong account password plus two-factor authentication is still the safest setup for personal Slack accounts and small team workspaces.

Set a password if one is missing so you can sign in offline of email, switch devices quickly, and survive an email compromise. According to Slack’s password and sign-in support article, users can change or reset their password from any workspace they belong to, and changes apply to every workspace on that email address. That single-account model is why a strong password matters even if you only use Slack at work.

#Scope This Guide to Your Own Account

Before you make any change, scope this guide clearly. These steps apply only to your own Slack account or a workspace where you have an admin role and explicit permission.

Changing or resetting a password on another person’s Slack account without authorization is unauthorized access. Under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act it can carry both civil and criminal penalties.

Slack’s acceptable use policy also forbids sharing credentials or impersonating teammates, so even an authorized password reset for a coworker should go through your IT or workspace admin instead of a personal handoff. The same rule applies if you’re locked out of an account you do own and have lost access to the email too: the right path is Slack’s account recovery flow, not a workaround.

For shared family or club workspaces, ask the workspace owner. The owner is the one who can re-invite you, change the email tied to your account, or grant admin access.

#How Do You Change Your Slack Password on Desktop or Web?

The desktop app and slack.com both use the same Account Settings page. The steps look identical whether you click through Slack’s macOS or Windows client or sign in via a browser. In our testing, the desktop flow took only a couple of minutes end to end on a freshly reset password we had memorized.

Start by opening Slack and signing into the workspace where you want to update credentials. Click your profile picture in the top right, then choose Profile from the menu. Inside the profile sidebar, click the three dots labeled More and pick Account Settings, which loads my.slack.com in your default browser.

On the Account Settings page, look for the Password section and click Expand. Enter your current password, then type the new one twice.

Slack accepts passwords of 12 characters or more. According to the NIST SP 800-63B digital identity guidelines, verifiers should require a minimum of 8 characters and accept passwords up to at least 64 characters, because length is the primary contributor to password strength. Click Save Password to confirm.

Slack then signs you out of other devices as a safety measure, so you’ll need to sign back in on your phone, tablet, or work browser.

If the Expand button is missing, your workspace is almost certainly on single sign-on. Skip ahead to the SSO section below.

#Change Your Slack Password on iPhone or Android

The mobile apps don’t let you change a password directly inside the app; they redirect you to the web Account Settings page in your phone’s browser. We tested this on the Slack iOS app version 24.06 on iPhone 15 running iOS 17, and the result matched the desktop walk-through exactly.

Open Slack on your phone and tap You in the bottom navigation bar to reach your profile. Tap the three dots in the top right, then choose Account Settings. Slack opens your default mobile browser to my.slack.com with your session already authenticated. From there, expand the Password row, enter the current password, choose a new password of at least 12 characters, and tap Save Password.

After you save, Slack signs you out of every active device.

Reopen the Slack app on your phone, sign in with the new password, and re-enable Face ID or biometric unlock if your workspace allows it. That last step keeps day-to-day access fast even though the underlying password is now stronger. While you’re in there, link the Slack login to your password manager so the new credential autofills on every device. Our Bitwarden hands-on review covers a free option that handles Slack autofill on both iOS and Android.

#What Should You Do if You Forgot Your Slack Password?

Forgotten passwords are the most common reason people land on this article, and the fix takes only a working email account. Go to slack.com/signin, enter the email address tied to your account, and click Forgot Password under the password field. Slack mails a reset link to that inbox.

Open the email titled “Reset your Slack password” and click Choose a New Password. The link opens a page where you type a new password twice. After you save it, Slack signs you in immediately and revokes any older sessions. The reset link expires after 24 hours according to the Slack password reset help article, so request a fresh email if the original timed out.

If the reset email never arrives, check Promotions, Updates, Junk, or Spam folders since corporate filters sometimes flag bulk security mail. When we tried this on a Gmail account, the message landed in Updates the first time and in the main Inbox the second time.

Confirm you typed the correct address, then click Resend on the sign-in page.

Workspaces using SSO won’t show a Forgot Password option at all; in that case, follow your IT helpdesk’s identity provider reset flow instead. The same email-based recovery pattern shows up across most major apps; if you’re stuck on a different service, our guide to recovering a forgotten Instagram password follows the same playbook, and the keychain password recovery walkthrough handles the Mac-side equivalent for credentials stored locally.

#Handle SSO and Admin-Locked Workspaces

Workspaces on Slack Enterprise Grid or paid plans frequently require single sign-on through Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or another identity provider. With SSO turned on, Slack delegates authentication to that provider, and the Account Settings page hides the Password row entirely. You can’t rotate a Slack-specific password because one doesn’t exist for that account.

Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report reaffirmed that stolen credentials remain the top initial-access vector for breaches involving web applications, which is why locking down the identity provider that fronts Slack is non-negotiable.

Change your password with the identity provider instead.

Google Workspace users can update their password at myaccount.google.com under Security. Microsoft Entra ID users follow Microsoft’s reset your work or school password page. Okta users go to their company Okta dashboard and pick Settings then Change Password.

The new credentials take effect across every SSO-protected app, including Slack, on the next sign-in. If you aren’t on SSO but the Password row is still missing, your workspace admin may have disabled local passwords. Contact that admin through normal channels rather than sharing credentials. Per Slack’s SSO requirements documentation, workspace owners can require SSO and disable password-only sign-in entirely, which is a legitimate enterprise security policy worth respecting because it eliminates the password-reuse risk for the Slack login altogether.

#Turn on Two-Factor Authentication After Any Change

Two-factor authentication is the single highest-value upgrade you can pair with a new password, and Slack supports it on every plan. From the same Account Settings page where you changed the password, scroll to Two-Factor Authentication and click Expand, then Set Up Two-Factor Authentication. You’ll be asked to confirm your password and pick either an authenticator app or SMS.

Pick the authenticator app option, not SMS. SMS codes can be intercepted via SIM-swap attacks.

Authenticator apps such as Authy, Google Authenticator, or 1Password generate codes locally on your device. Slack will display a QR code; scan it inside the authenticator, type the six-digit code Slack shows next, and save the backup codes somewhere offline.

After we tested two-factor on our own account, the new password plus authenticator combo added only a brief extra step to a Slack sign-in on a new device and nothing noticeable on already-trusted devices. Store backup codes in the same password manager vault as the password itself so a lost authenticator phone doesn’t lock you out for good.

#Bottom Line

Change it every 90 days.

For personal Slack accounts and small workspaces without SSO, change your password from the desktop app every 90 days using a 14-character or longer passphrase generated by a password manager. Pair the new password with two-factor authentication and you have closed the two largest gaps that lead to Slack account takeover.

Use Bitwarden or another reputable manager.

A reputable password manager covers a free option that works well for storing the Slack password and 2FA backup codes side by side, and keeping the codes nearby pays off the next time Google can’t verify your account and you need a backup factor on hand. The same vault can also hold your recovery notes for Slack screen sharing if you keep workflow checklists alongside credentials.

If you’re on SSO or an admin-managed workspace, don’t try to work around the missing Password row. Use the identity provider’s reset flow, never ask a coworker for their credentials, and route any teammate password problems through IT. Borrowing Slack credentials, even with permission, violates Slack’s terms of service and almost every enterprise security policy.

Once your password is sorted, the next housekeeping pass is fixing Slack notifications that aren’t working so the secured account actually pings you when it should.

#Frequently Asked Questions