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		m3kw9 on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We're ending our Samsung collaboration They now have a new way to recover lost passwords, is called “recovery contacts” and allows that contact to recover your mothers phone

stctw on June 2, 2024 [–]

AFAICT, this feature requires the recovery contact to also use an Apple device, which does not help us. It seems like another way to try to lock users into using Apple.

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