BrightID’s Social Recovery
Never lose your BrightID
Update: The latest guide to Social Recovery is here.
Social Recovery is Easy
BrightID uses social connections to prove your uniqueness to applications — and to recover your account to a new phone.
We’ve made setting up social recovery easy because it’s important that everyone does it. It’s the way to recover your BrightID if it’s lost or stolen. For now, it’s also the way to move your BrightID to a new phone.
This article will walk through how to use this important feature.
Setting up Recovery
Choose your Trusted Connections
Once you’ve made three connections in BrightID, you’ll see a notification.
Tap it and you’ll be able to select three or more “Trusted Connections.”
You can choose anyone among the connections you’ve already made. Make sure to choose people you can trust to be in charge of your BrightID.
Backup Names and Photos
The next step is to choose a password you can remember. This step only backs up the names and photos of your connections. The password encrypts the backup so that only you can recover it.
Recovering your BrightID
If you need to restore your BrightID to a new phone for whatever reason, follow these steps.
Start Recovery
When you first install BrightID, you have two options. In this case, you’ll choose Recover BrightID.
Trusted Connections
You’ll need two of your trusted connections to scan the code. After the second successful scan, your BrightID and connection photos and names will be restored.
The BrightID on your old phone will now be blocked from performing any actions on your behalf.
Get More Help
To get help and meet other users, register for a BrightID meet or pop into our discord or telegram.
