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How to get emergency access to someone else’s account
Learn how to gain emergency access to a Proton user's account and update their account settings.
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How to grant emergency access to your Proton Account
Find out how to choose up to five emergency contacts for your Proton Account.
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Device-based recovery
Device-based recovery restores access to your encrypted account data after a password reset. Learn how it works, and how to enable it.
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Restoring Proton Drive files after a password reset
Learn how to recover Proton Drive files after a password reset — with an extra step to restore backed up photos in some cases.
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Recovery phrase
Learn what a recovery phrase is, how to use it to recover your Proton Account and data, and why it's one of the recovery methods we recommend.
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Email and SMS recovery
Learn how to use email and SMS recovery to reset your password. Find out why we recommend enabling additional recovery options.