Ok let me ping the relevant folks in team who may know more.
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Many thanks @diegop … Do you guys know anyone from DFINITY to contact about this particular matter?
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I pinged them, but can you please make a ticket here so so someone from Dfinity can help help your particular case: https://support.internetcomputer.org/hc/en-us/requests/new
You can link this forum thread and also mention me.
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Hi @z3z3 ! I’ve contributed a bit to Internet Identity, let me see how I can help. Can you clarify how you created your anchor?
I recently made an Internet Identity Anchor and when I try to enter my anchor number the NNS always ask me to verify through security key.
You say you created an anchor; how did you create it? Did you create it on the same device you’re trying to now authenticate with, i.e. the one you posted a screenshot of? Did you use biometrics or a FIDO device like a Yubikey?
Last time I remember I was only given a seed phrase to recover
Do you mean that you were asked to copy the seedphrase during the anchor creation? That seedphrase shouldn’t be used for day-to-day things like login to the NNS dapp.
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Here’s the chronology:
I’ve only used 1 device (my Xiaomi Redmi Note 10) to sign up via NNS App installed on OS Android 11. It was Friday 4th February 2022.
After I got my Internet Identity anchor number, the seed phrase was only shown to me on my phone screen and I wrote them down on paper then clicked the copy button.
I remember that I only used my phone’s fingerprint sensor to authenticate. Once I managed to log in, I sent some ICP coins from my other wallet to my NNS wallet address then staked them for 1 year+.
Yesterday (6th February 2022) I tried to log in again using my phone (yes, the same phone) and I found out that the NNS App asked me for security keys via Bluetooth or USB connection.
That’s why I decided to start this new topic to get help from the forum.
Thanks a lot, this is really useful!
I’m going to assume you used the same browser on Feb 4th and Feb 6th. It looks like the Redmi Note 10 may have cleared its WebAuthn credentials store. This is basically a local database that contains the key for your Internet Identity login, and that database is unlocked when you use the fingerprint reader. This issue of the store getting wiped is known to happen on Safari, but I hadn’t heard of Android browsers doing this on their own (I’m assuming you didn’t clear your browser data manually).
If my assumption is correct then the problem should be fixed by re-adding the device. This is the process:
- Login using your recovery phrase that you copied (using the “Lost access and want to recover?” button)
- Re-enroll your device (click “Add new device” and follow the steps)
That should allow you to login via fingerprint again. If after that the issue surfaces again then we’ll need to look deeper and figure out why your browser keeps wiping its webauthn credentials store…
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Today I tried one suggestion to recover by adding a new device (using the same Xiaomi Redmi 10 Phone and it’s fingerprint sensor)… and it magically worked 
!
I’m glad now that I can access again my NNS App wallet but I think it’s kind of a weird solution for me as Internet Identity user to use the same device and had to register it as a new device.
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Well I’m glad it worked! It’s really surprising that the webauthn credential store got wiped. Please let us know if this happens again!
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Hello, I have a question about login to the NNS.
Since today I can no longer log into my NNS wallet (Internet Computer Content Validation Bootstrap) on a MacBook and my current Chrome browser.
I was supposed to use a USB stick for my security key, but in the past I didn’t need a USB stick for login.
Did I miss something there?
No, you did not miss anything. We have seen user reports on this. But fix is simple: can you please restart your MacBook? It should work then.
If it does or does not fix it, can you let this tread know please?
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huch, after a restart of my MacBook the login works as expected
Thank you for the hint.
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Glad to hear it worked!
Just wanted to add another datapoint to this thread: android phone running android 10, latest chrome version, had the same “use usb key” thing happen. A reboot solved the problem, and authenticating with fingerprint now works again.
Having the same issue, but the solution provided here is not working, any other solution will be appreciated, using redmi note 10 pro
If one mistakenly cleared the data, what’s the solution?
You can restore access using either a seed phrase, or another connected device, as long as it was originally connected to the same anchor id with the phone.
Tried that but all I get is that the seed phrases are not correct, I am fed up, I need to access my distrikt app.
I use the same backup phrase to restore my account with icpswap and it worked, I don’t know why I am having this difficulty with restoring my anchor with the same set of phrases