Your Personal UW NetID

Your personal UW NetID (and its password) provides access to many UW online services including MyUW and UW Email. Your UW NetID verifies who you are, ensures the privacy of your personal information, and restricts the use of UW resources to authorized users.

Don’t have a UW NetID yet?
Get a personal UW NetID: https://uwnetid.washington.edu/newid/
Manage your UW NetID Services:
View and manage your services: https://uwnetid.washington.edu/manage/

Changing or Resetting Your Password

If you know your UW NetID, you can change your password or reset a forgotten password at anytime.

Change Your Password: https://uwnetid.washington.edu/manage/?password
Reset a Forgotten Password: https://uwnetid.washington.edu/renew/

Alternative Ways to Change Your Password
If you do not know your current password or would rather not use the online method, you have several alternatives:

By phone
Current UW faculty, staff, and clinicians can call the UW Information Technology Service Center at 206-221-5000 Changing your password by phone requires verification of your identity.

In person
Students, student applicants, and alumni should come to the UW Information Technology Help Desk with an appropriate photo ID. The Service Center staff will give you a temporary UW NetID password that you can then change to something known only to you. If this is a hardship for you, please email the Service Center or call 206-221-5000.

If you obtained your UW NetID through another orghttps://it.uw.edu/help/anization that has a relationship with the UW, such as Cascadia Community College or Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, you may need to contact their support services to change your password.

Protect Your Password

Prevent someone else from using your UW services:
● Use passwords that are difficult to guess and change them regularly.
● Never tell anyone your password. UW staff, including UW Information Technology consultants, will NEVER ask for your password. Email messages that ask you to send your UW NetID and password (such as to “verify your account”) are fakes and should not be responded to.

Expirations

You will occasionally receive a service expiration notice from the UW. This notice is for services only; not the UW NetID, password and forwarding service.
Your UW NetID account is provided for life but services (such as email, web publishing, etc.) that are available to you depend on the type of affiliation you have with the UW at a given time. You may also have multiple affiliations, so if you have questions or concerns about this, please contact the UW-IT Service Center at 206-221-5000 or email help@uw.edu.

No Longer an Active Student?

Your UW NetID, password and forwarding is still active. You can use your UW NetID to forward your email to your UW Google Apps or UW Windows Live account. Google Apps and UW Windows Live accounts do not expire for graduates, current or former students.

Your UW NetID is Permanent

In general, your UW NetID is permanent and cannot be changed except in rare circumstances. For more information, send email to help@uw.edu