Critical accounts
The accounts you need to be able to open without your phone
Some accounts, if they stay locked behind your phone, stay locked behind nothing: your email recovers almost all the others, and your number receives the codes for almost all of them. Protecting them in that exact order is the workshop; here, account by account, is what to check today and what each provider does if you can no longer get in.
Your root account
The ones that identify you to everything else, with Google and Apple as the two full-ecosystem cases.
- Google accountThe key to Gmail, Android and your passkeys.
- One Google account or twoWhether a second account protects you or complicates things.
- Apple IDOpens iCloud, your iPhone and your purchases.
- Microsoft accountOutlook, OneDrive and Xbox depend on it.
- Your main emailThe account that recovers almost all the others.
Your number and your messages
What depends on the SIM you're carrying right now.
Money
What Spanish banks ask for when the phone you linked isn't the one you have anymore.
Government and public services
What you need to get paperwork done even when your phone doesn't respond. These are Spain-specific services, for people with Spanish ID.