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2FA Backup Codes and Recovery Kit Checklist
List the accounts you could get locked out of, print a recovery sheet, and write your backup codes on paper.
Runs 100% in your browser. Your account list is never sent or saved, and the sheet is printed from your device.
Tick the accounts you use, choose how each one recovers, then print the sheet and write the codes by hand. Do not type real codes into any website, including this one.
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Account recovery sheet
Prepared today. Store this page somewhere you would look in an emergency (a safe, a sealed envelope with a trusted person). Re-check it every year and whenever you regenerate codes.
Apple Account
Recovery keyGoogle Account
Backup codesPrimary email
Backup codesPassword manager
Recovery key- Each backup code works once. Cross it out after you use it.
- Regenerating codes on a site makes this list invalid. Print a new sheet.
- Never photograph this page into your camera roll or a cloud drive without a lock.
Your account list lives only in this tab and disappears when you close it. Printing happens on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
How it works
Backup codes are the one-time codes that let you sign in when your phone or authenticator app is gone. Most people skip saving them, then discover the problem when the phone is lost, stolen or reset. This checklist turns that chore into a ten-minute job.
- Tick the accounts you use and pick how each one recovers: backup codes, a recovery key, a recovery contact or a security key.
- Print the sheet, or choose Save as PDF in the print dialog if you want to print later.
- Visit each account's security settings, generate fresh codes, and write them on the sheet by hand.
- Store the sheet offline, and tell one trusted person where it is.
Prioritize the accounts that can reset everything else: your primary email, Apple Account or Google Account, and your password manager. If those survive, you can recover the rest.
The page never asks for real codes on purpose. Anything typed into a website could end up in autofill, screenshots or a synced browser history. Paper is boring, and that is the point.
Read more: Where to store 2FA backup codes, How to store a crypto recovery phrase.
Questions
Offline and away from your phone. A printed sheet in a safe or a sealed envelope with someone you trust covers the common disaster, which is losing the phone that holds your authenticator app. A second copy in a locked notes app or password manager is fine, as long as that app is not protected by the same phone alone.
No, and you should not use any website that claims to. Backup codes and recovery keys must come from the service itself (Google, Apple, your bank). This tool builds a printable sheet with blank lines so you can write the real codes by hand.
No. Never generate or type a cryptocurrency seed phrase on a website. Create it on your hardware wallet and write it down from the device screen.
Whenever you regenerate codes on a site (the old ones stop working), when you add a new important account, and at least once a year.
