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Upgrade your phone and transfer your Vault12 Guard app data
Summary
Upgrading your phone can be an exciting time, whether you are buying a new phone, switching your operating system from Android to iPhone, or just upgrading your tablet. Among the many positive changes you'll experience, the last thing you want to do is to invest a lot of effort into migrating individual apps from your original device.
Vault12 is pleased to announce that it's now easier than ever to safely transfer all your Vault information to your new device — whether you're a Vault owner, or the Guardian of someone else's Vault.
- Vault Owners with a new device can complete the transfer without involving Guardians or spare devices.
- Guardians with a new device can upgrade without interrupting the security of the assets they protect.
- Settings, subscriptions, and preferences will seamlessly transfer along with your data to the new device.
Read our step by step guide here.
Time to Upgrade
For various reasons, you might consider upgrading your phone every year or so. The process can be pretty simple by using cloud backups/restores from Apple and Google. Nevertheless, people always wonder whether everything has been transferred correctly — especially when crypto assets are involved.
Vault12 has always had a seamless upgrade process between phones for Vault owners. For Vault Guardians, historically, you have had to go through one extra step of notifying the Vault owner that you changed phones. With this new update, no one needs to notify anyone, and the transfer process ensures that all information is transferred from the old device to a new device, with no need to bother Vault owners or Guardians.
Time to Transfer
The most common scenario is of course buying a brand new phone with nothing on it. In this scenario, you can easily initiate the Transfer process by simply installing the Vault12 Guard app.
Other scenarios include switching device types (e.g., switching to an iPhone from an Android, or vice versa). With the new Transfer function, you can ensure that everything is cleanly and safely transferred to your new device, without the need to call Guardians and Vault owners.
Follow the steps from our Help portal, here.
Wasim Ahmad
Wasim is a serial entrepreneur and an advisor in the fields of AI, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and encryption solutions. At Vault12, he led the private and public fundraising efforts and focuses today on expanding the Vault12 ecosystem. His crypto experience began with AlphaPoint, where he worked with the founding team to launch the world's first crypto trading exchanges. Previously he was a founding member of Voltage Security, a spinout from Stanford University, that launched Identity-Based Encryption (IBE), a breakthrough in Public Key Cryptography, and pioneered the use of sophisticated data encryption to protect sensitive data across the world's payment systems. Wasim serves on the board of non-profit, StartOut, and is a Seedcamp and WeWork Labs global mentor.
Wasim graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Physics and French from the University of Sussex.
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