The lack of lockable seed phrases on id.ai is a huge security concern. Due to the lack of anchor numbers if someone finds your security key, and holds it near their device, without even knowing the former anchor number they have full access to your II and can reset your seed phrase, locking you out …

I support your opinion 100%, I noticed it too, and I am very outraged by it. see my topic LOCKING of recovery passphrase MUST come back - General - Internet Computer Developer Forum i post it on before I noticed yours .

Astonishing. I really don’t like IIv2. Not being able to lock seed phrase is bonkers

LOL, I just logged into my OLD (!!!) ii 1.0 (!!!) and LOCKED (!!!) the recovery phrase . [brave_screenshot_identity.internetcomputer.org] Please restore the old domain, identity.internetcomputer.org , for public use, without redirecting to the new one. I know it still exists under the hood, where …

The devs in charge of Internet Identity already confirmed that it’s in the works so unfortunately there’s nothing to do in this case but wait for it to be implemented https://forum.dfinity.org/t/locking-of-recovery-passphrase-must-come-back/65465/3?u=casualchess Have you finally figured this out…

would be nice to have this feature to protect my investments that are down 95%

Bumping this thread—how is the work coming along? I see you’re really hard at work on this incredibly complex problem!!

I’m encountering a bug/error/problem. I’ve been trying to recover my II using my original recovery phrase (which I locked for security reasons), but now after II2.0, I can’t recover it. I tried this with two IIs that I set up on December 2024, none of them can be recovered using the 24 words recover…

did you test the route with the legacy identity for recovery (3rd button) or did you try with the first button? [image]

When can we lock II seed phrase? I recently tried to and realized there s no more such option People should be able to add multiple recovery devices and burn their recovery phrase if they wish so(or not) if someone steals ur recovery phrase - it’s game over(if u burn it and lock, theres nothing to…

Seed phrase locking needed on ii2!

Developers

marc0olo July 9, 2026, 7:14am 9

setting up a recovery phrase is supported for quite a while already, see https://forum.dfinity.org/t/recovery-phrases-are-now-available-on-id-ai/61763

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Seed phrase locking needed on ii2!

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