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### Restore manually with a recovery phrase
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Users may have created a wallet with another wallet application. In this case, they should be able to import that wallet into yours by entering their 12 or 24-word recovery phrase. There are several options for the UI when entering a recovery phase, as outlined earlier in the [manual backup]({{ '/guide/daily-spending-wallet/backup-and-recovery/manual-backup/' | relative_url }}) section of this chapter.
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Users may have created a wallet with another wallet application. In this case, they should be able to import that wallet into yours by entering their 12 or 24-word recovery phrase. There are several options for the UI when entering a recovery phase, as outlined earlier in the [manual backup]({{ '/guide/daily-spending-wallet/backup-and-recovery/manual-backup/' | relative_url }}) section of this chapter. Consider supporting recovery phrases in [multiple languages](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md) for better global accessibility.
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### Restore from an encrypted QR code backup
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**Technicalities** - Recovery of multisig-wallets needs both the extended public key and the recovery phrase of all participating keys as well as the master key fingerprint as defined by BIP32 concatenated with the derivation path of the public key. The derivation path is represented as 32-bit little endian unsigned integer indexes concatenated with each other. The number of 32 bit unsigned integer indexes must match the depth provided in the extended public key.
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**Language considerations** - The recovery phrase consists of English-language words, which may not be intuitive to recognize, remember, or write for many users around the world. If this applies to your user base, it may be more appropriate to use [output descriptors]({{ '/guide/glossary/#output-script-descriptor' | relative_url }}) or other techniques.
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**Language considerations** - Recovery phrases typically consists of English-language words, which may not be intuitive to recognize, remember, or write for many users around the world. Consider supporting multiple languages (see [BIP39 wordlists](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md)), or an alternate backup technique like [output descriptors]({{ '/guide/glossary/#output-script-descriptor' | relative_url }}).
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### Simplified payment verification (SPV)
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#### Do's
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- Explain what a recovery phrase is, and provide guidance on how to do *safe offline backups* BEFORE the user is exposed to the recovery phrase
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- Consider supporting recovery phrases in [multiple languages](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md) for better global accessibility
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#### Products that use this scheme
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