What an account would cost you
An account links your identity to the fact that you use a private vault. It creates a password-reset path that someone with access to your email could use. And it creates a database we would have to protect forever.
How things work without one
- Purchases go through Apple and belong to your Apple Account.
- Backup goes to your own private iCloud, already encrypted.
- Recovery uses a 12-word phrase that only you hold.
- Sync between iPhone and iPad uses device pairing with a safety code.
The trade-off
If you lose both your unlock and your recovery phrase, we can't help. That's the point: if we could help you, we could help someone else too. So we make the phrase easy to write down, check that you did, and remind you to keep it safe.
