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How to change your Steem Recovery Account with SteemWorld or SteemPeak

I've been asked a few times about this lately, this is one of the easiest ways for people to change their account recovery partner away from steem which is currently non responsive, and generally not the most trusted right now.

Go to https://steemworld.org/@YourUsername For example my #palnet tribe account at https://steemworld.org/@wizardofaus

On the left hand side, select Account Details
On the right select Change Recovery Account

You'll be prompted for the username of your new recovery partner. Make sure it's someone you can trust to respond to your request within 30 days. This person needs to be able to be certain its you, discuss how you will contact and positively identify each other.

You will need your OWNER key to authorise this transaction. Currently only direct key entry, and steemconnect are available for this (no steem-keychain yet).

Hit OK and you're done! You'll see the recovery partner change request appear on the blockchain immediately, but the change will not take effect for 30 days from submission.

Alternative Method : Steempeak!

Steempeak now also has a brand-new very user friendly account recovery tools. I didn't realise when I started this post, but I may as well show both options now :)

You can access account recovery tools by going to your profile, and clicking "actions" in the header : Then click "Keys & Recovery" and the "Account Recovery" tab And enter your new recovery account, and your owner key

The change will be submitted, and take effect 30 days later.

More info about account recoveries

How to recover a stolen or hacked steem account by @abitcoinskeptic
Initial concept by @dan as a github issue
@someguy123 wrote How the steem account recovery works and why your trustee cant steal your account
@themarkymark wrote a guide to changing recovery account with cli-wallet

Thankyou @steemchiller for this tool, you get 50% of the payout of this post.

Update: Recoveries at steemit inc were fixed today (11/03/2020)- I would still recommend people take control of their own account recovery.

Comments · 40

@clm(57)· 2350d
The ownerkey is not the active key, neither the masterkey? somehow I cant manage. there are 3keys in total right?
@polad(40)· 2356d
Excellent
@dain432(25)· 2357d
good info!

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@geekgirl(80)· 2357d
Are the transactions signed on the user's browser when using steemworld or steempeak? or the owner key sent to their servers and executed there?
@polad(40)· 2359d
Excellent work
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@tonytrillions(68)· 2361d
!giphy witty

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@kus-knee(74)· 2361d
Thanks for the great advice and article. Not sure who to select as the recovery account. Can this be individuals? Would @blocktrades be an option for example?
@cerati(57)· 2361d
i just did a spanish translation of this post thanks a lot for the information @ausbitbank

https://steempeak.com/steem/@cerati/como-cambiar-tu-cuenta-de-recuperacion-de-steem-con-steemworld-o-steempeak-importante-para-proteger-tu-cuenta
@teeeddy(32)· 2361d
Thanks for your upload It's very useful
@nitin21(50)· 2362d
Thank you
@arcange(79)· 2362d
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@builderofcastles(74)· 2362d
Do i have a recovery account? When i signed up, there wasn't even a whisper of such a thing.

i was told, here is you key, right it down, copy it, make sure to keep it safe because there is no recovery.

So, was steemit always a recovery account?
@avare(65)· 2362d
Thank you for information $trdo
@overkillcoin(71)· 2362d
I keep getting this error :)
@gabrielatravels(79)· 2362d
This also doesn't work for me using any of the two methods. And it doesn't work trying to reveal my private owner key and copy-paste it again, I only see it being made out of points even after I click to reveal or reload the page...
@polad(40)· 2362d
Great
@bomex(41)· 2362d
Good information about success... Thank for sharing..
@joythewanderer(81)· 2362d
@chesatochi(73)· 2362d
From a security standpoint! Do you believe is mandatory to change the recovery password at this stage from Steemit to Steemworld or Steempeak?
@saffisara(74)· 2362d
Thank you very much for sharing this 😉👍 Great info and good to know.

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@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2363d
Thabks for the mentions...

If Steemit isn't making accounts now, they probably aren't recovering them either. So if recovery account = steem , change now!
@trafficinsider(48)· 2363d
It's always good to know various options for recovering keys and passwords.
@flemingfarm(81)· 2363d
Just did this for my wife and I this morning. Super easy through SteemWorld. Everyone needs to change if Steemit is still set as their recovery.

I like the idea of a new account that can be used as the recovery account. Then the keys can just be locked up and the account only accessed when needed for the recovery. I am going to do it but I just set ours so have to wait before I can, I presume.
@vikisecrets(80)· 2363d
cool, that @steempeak has now also implemented this feature :)
@shmoogleosukami(73)· 2363d
That's all good and all but I don't have any trusted friends on steem. :(
@nikolina(73)· 2363d
Thank you so much for sharing this!
@tobetada(77)· 2363d
thanks for the post! I am still a bit unsure about this: so in case my account gets hacked, there is a recovery account (default is @steem) that will help me gain access to my account again (does this happen by sending me new passwords)?

And would it make sense if I were to set up an alt account (which I made myself) as my recovery account?
@bigtakosensei(68)· 2363d
!trdo
@foodiesunite(73)· 2363d
In the process of switching all our accounts and moving the specific accounts from the Steem account as the recovery account. Didn't know about Steemworld's ability as well. That's awesome. Thanks for pointing it out. We are the recovery for many of the accounts that we've helped on-board already, so they are safe.
@themarkymark(81)· 2363d
If you want to do it without SteemWorld, I wrote a post a while ago on how to do it via CLI.

https://steempeak.com/steemit/@themarkymark/how-to-change-your-recovery-account
@osavi(63)· 2363d
Why should I change the recovery account? Could you give me some reason for such a move?
@sanjeevm(78)· 2363d

Make sure it's someone you can trust to respond to your request within 30 days

That's the most difficult part :) Using a Claimed account may be another option.
@himalayannomad(68)· 2363d
Now, one can also do it directly via @steempeak. It's one of their newly introduced features.
@pixelfan(74)· 2363d
Next tut is about how to create an account with the same tool... I don't think Sunny-boy is admitting new users right now 😉
@jacobpeacock(74)· 2363d
@ausbitbank should this be done for accounts who have the @steem account listed as their recovery account?
@russia-btc(71)· 2363d
Excellent thank you. As I understand it, a trustee will not be able to steal Steem, the main thing is that he be in touch for 30 days - right? If people trust you, can they choose you?
@sathyasankar(65)· 2363d
Thanks for this update. I think it would be a nice idea to create a Claimed account and set that account as recovery account. Because we need to consider people who like to remain anonymous.
@valued-customer(75)· 2363d
Thank you very much for this, in particular, and for all your hard work to implement voluntary society. Few of us plebs realize the debt we owe you.

Thanks!
@amico(67)· 2363d
@tipu curate Thanks for the useful how to! 🙏