A story of packed keys, moving bridges, and safety nets that catch you if you fall
Congratulations! Your old phone has a vault full of secret keys: profiles from your carrier, work keys, maybe a travel profile. Your shiny new phone's vault is completely empty. How do you get those keys across without risking them falling into the wrong hands?
Moving keys between vaults is a team effort. Your old vault packs up the keys, the Key Maker orchestrates the move, your Carrier approves it, and the Assistant guides you. Every helper checks IDs and makes sure no key goes missing or falls into the wrong hands!
Before the move, your old vault carefully packs each key into a secure package. A special moving receipt is created: cryptographically signed proof of what's being moved. The old vault then clears its rooms, ready for the new keys to be delivered. Everything is tracked and verified!
Choose the full-service move: your Key Maker handles everything, checking with your carrier and issuing a fresh QR code. Or the DIY move: your profile already has a pre-packed activation code. Either way, a recovery ticket is saved as backup, just in case!
What if the new vault can't open the package? Don't panic! Your old vault saved a recovery ticket before deleting the keys. You can go back, the Key Maker verifies the new vault failed, and restores everything to the old vault. But hurry: the recovery ticket expires after a while!
Device Change and Profile Recovery are brand new in v3.x! Before this, every phone manufacturer had their own way of moving eSIMs: if they supported it at all. Now there's one standardised, safe way to move all your secret keys to a new vault, no matter what phone you own!
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