Macworld

Without your Recovery Key, your Apple ID could be lost forever

Here’s a question that could change the rest of your digital life: Where is the Recovery Key for your Apple ID account? If you haven’t enabled two-step verification on your Apple ID (or on multiple ...
9to5Mac

PSA: Don’t enable an Apple ID recovery key yet – or maybe ever

We explained way back in 2014 why you might want to have an Apple ID recovery key. In those days, it was an extra precaution you could take against getting locked out of your account. Apple abandoned ...
Ars Technica

How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...
Macworld

What you should know about iOS 15 recovery keys

Apple introduced a new form of recovery key in September 2020 at the release of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 to offer an option that lets you recover access to an Apple ID account with two-factor ...