Create your Itsmi profile
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Make your Itsmi passkey
Whoa. This makes a new, separate Itsmi profile. If you've made one before, on any device, this would be a second: a separate Itsmi profile that starts empty, which Miapps see as someone else. Sign in with yours instead.
Sign in with your Itsmi profile
When your device asks where to save your passkey, choose a password manager that syncs, such as iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, 1Password or Bitwarden.
Why one that syncs?
When your device asks where to save your passkey, choose a password manager that syncs across your devices, such as iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, 1Password or Bitwarden.
Some passkeys can't leave the device they're made on, such as one on a security key, or one that Windows Hello keeps on one computer only. Whoois doesn't accept these, because losing that device would lose your way in.
If yours was refused, try again, and choose your password manager. Your device may keep the refused passkey: you can delete it in your device's password settings.
Your Itsmi profile's page says what each passkey is:
- Synced passkey. Your password manager keeps it on your other devices.
- Passkey not synced yet. It can sync, but your password manager hasn't backed it up. Check that its sync is on.
- Passkey on one device only. It can't leave that device. Made before Whoois stopped accepting these, it still works, but replace it with one that syncs.
- Passkey not checked yet. Whoois will know whether it syncs after you next sign in with it.
Next, you'll save your recovery codes.
What happens next?
- Check that you've never made an Itsmi profile. If you have, on any device, sign in with it instead.
- Give your first and last names, which your password manager shows beside the passkey, and make your Itsmi passkey. Save it in a password manager that syncs.
- Save your 8 recovery codes. Whoois shows them once.
Step 3 of 3
Whooray! Your Itsmi profile is ready.
Save your recovery codes
If you ever lose every passkey, one of these codes gets you back in to your Itsmi profile. Each works once, and Whoois can't show them again: save them now, somewhere safe.
What's this? Recovery codes
You get 8 codes when you create your Itsmi profile, shown once. Each works once.
Keep them somewhere safe, apart from your devices: printed, or in a password manager other than your passkey's.
Making new codes cancels all the old ones at once, including any you've saved. Make new ones after you've used a code, or if someone else may have seen them.
Whoois can't show your codes again: it keeps only a scrambled form of each, which can't be turned back into the code.
Making new codes needs your Itsmi passkey again first. If you lose every passkey and every code, your email can still get you back in: see 'Recovering by email'.