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What happens if my phone breaks/dies/runs out of battery/gets lost/...? What if it's my grandma's phone N thousand miles away?

• dwaite 4y ago
  Your first question is the primary topic of the article.
  • dataflow 4y ago
    Yes, where said article cays it's "it's tricky": > Bellovin and others say one potentially tricky scenario in this new passwordless authentication scheme is what happens when someone loses their mobile device, or their phone breaks and they can’t recall their iCloud password. and Google ignores the authentication question and just assumes a new, charged phone follows every human being wherever they go (and presumably the same goes without saying for backup codes): > Google says that even if you lose your phone, “your passkeys will securely sync to your new phone from cloud backup, allowing you to pick up right where your old device left off.”