I created my account with my person work email for my old job. I dont not have that job anymore, and now im stuck with my personal phone number being attached to this email!! HELP!! what can I do. I will lose access to the email account soon

There is no procedure for changing account credentials. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936827-can-i-change-my-email-address You would have to create a new account. Phone numbers can be reused only once. Then remove subscription and payment methods and delete old account within ChatGPT UI, o…

Wow, this is stupid. I mean, changing an email address is basic stuff…

How do I change the phone number on my account? I don’t have that number anymore. Do I have to delete my orgnaiazation?

If you don’t have the phone number any more, and don’t have anything you want to save about the account, you can delete your OpenAI account. However, there is no reason to do so, unless in the future OpenAI were again to use some text message validation to re-authenticate the account, which they cur…

That was exactly my concern and good to know. Thank you!

Hi colin6, sorry to hear about your situation. It sounds frustrating to be stuck with your personal phone number attached to your old work email. Have you tried reaching out to the support team for assistance? They might be able to help you change the email associated with your account or unlink you…

That’s wishful thinking, but OpenAI support staff cannot change the authentication method used for an account. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936824-can-i-change-my-authentication-method

This is not an acceptable solution.

My answer from two years ago which you reply to: OpenAI hasn’t changed anything. They only changed the help link to be less helpful - in not stating essentially “be sure to use a phone number and email that you will control for the rest of your life”.

Change phone number or Email

ChatGPT Feature requests

ricardokenji1 June 17, 2024, 1:25pm 11

that’s why the is a pretty reasonable feature request.
OpenAI does not allow users to change the authentication method used for an account, but that does’t mean they cannot do it.

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Change phone number or Email

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