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Vault password and app lock

Change the Wardterm vault password, find your Secret Key, and lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or a PIN, with the delay you choose for automatic locking.

The vault password

Your servers, keys, passwords and commands are kept in a vault, encrypted on your device. You choose the vault password when you create your account. Keep your recovery kit.

Change the vault password

  1. Open Account: in the Profile tab on iPhone and iPad, or from your account at the bottom of the sidebar on Mac.
  2. Under Sign-in and recovery, choose Change password.
  3. Enter the current password, then the new one twice.

Your other devices ask for it the next time they unlock.

The Secret Key

The Secret Key starts with W1-. With the vault password, it opens your vault on a new device. It is in your recovery kit. Usually you do not type it: a device you already use approves the new one. See Sign in on a new device.

Lock the app

  1. Open Settings, Security: in the Profile tab on iPhone and iPad, in Settings on Mac.
  2. Under App lock, turn on Unlock with Face ID or Unlock with Touch ID, or Unlock with a PIN of 6 digits.
  3. Choose when to Lock automatically: Immediately, after 1, 5 or 15 minutes, after 1 hour, when the Mac sleeps or locks, or Never. By default, the app locks after 5 minutes away from it.

While the app is locked, your sessions keep running and stay hidden until you unlock. After 10 wrong PINs, only the vault password unlocks. Lock now locks the app at once; on Mac, so does Shift+Cmd+L.