Troubleshooting Device Not Trusted
Article Purpose
Bridges are now checking if the user’s device is “verified” and will refuse to send messages if the device is not verified.
Verification is on a per-session/per-device basis, a user can have some sessions verified and some sessions not verified.
If a user’s session is not verified, they will receive error messages when they attempt to send messages on their bridges.
Summary
What to do depends upon the user’s state, or the specific error message they have seen
State | Action | |
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The user sees “the device is not trusted (unverified)” | The user should verify their device from the security settings panel | This is platform dependent, see screenshots section |
The user sees “the device is not trusted (cross signing keys have changed)” | Yeet and re-setup the bridge in question | |
User attempts to verify their device but it remains unverified |
Capture a bug report from the device that failed to verify, and from the device that they were using to verify it Re-verify using their Recovery Code |
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The user cannot verify due to missing the Recovery Code | Follow the steps to reset Recovery Code |
Verification for Desktop
Misc capture from bc-support
Affected Clients
- All Clients
Affected Networks
- All Networks