Duress Passcode for When You're Forced to Unlock
If someone forces you to unlock your phone, a normal lock screen protects nothing. HypaVault's duress passcode unlocks like normal while, in one silent step, every other vault on the phone is erased.
Duress Passcode at a Glance
A duress passcode is a second HypaVault passcode for moments when someone forces you to unlock. Nothing on screen looks different: an empty vault opens while, in one silent step, every other vault's key is destroyed, so their files can never be decrypted again. A backup and its recovery phrase bring an erased vault back later. Entered by mistake, it erases just the same, so use it only when you must.
- Opens
- An empty vault, with no sign of duress
- Erases
- Every other vault on the phone
- Undo
- Restore each vault from its backup
What Duress Passcode Does
Looks Like a Normal Unlock
Nothing on screen looks different. An empty vault opens, set aside for this when you turned the duress passcode on, with no sign that duress was used.
Erased in One Silent Step
Every other vault's key is destroyed, so its files can never be decrypted again. The files are then deleted in the background.
Backups Still Work
A backup and its recovery phrase bring an erased vault back, so keep a recent backup of each vault somewhere off the phone.
How to Use Duress Passcode
3 steps, shown on the screen you'll see in the app.
Questions About Duress Passcode
A second passcode that erases your other vaults.
A second passcode for when someone forces you to unlock. It looks like a normal unlock, silently erases every other vault on the phone and opens an empty one.
Read the Help ArticleTheir keys are destroyed in one silent step, so their files can never be decrypted again. The files are then deleted in the background.
Read the Help ArticleA normal unlock and an empty vault, with no sign that duress was used.
Read the Help ArticleNo. The vault it opens is empty. There's no decoy setting.
Read the Help ArticleYes, from your backups. A backup and its recovery phrase bring an erased vault back.
Read the Help ArticleIt erases everything just the same. Use it only when you must, and keep your backups current.
Read the Help ArticleYes. An existing duress passcode keeps working after Pro ends.
Read the Help ArticleIt's part of Pro: $24.99 a year after a 3-day free trial, or $39.99 once.
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Go Further with Duress Passcode
The full walkthrough, the reasoning behind it, the short version of each task and a free tool to check your own setup.
