[nabla9]

That's not how it works.

If you lose your only iPhone, you lose the keys. Using your face is different device does not get you access to your old keys.

[whynaut]

> If you lose your only iPhone, you lose the keys.

But they're in your iCloud Keychain. You should just log in to iCloud and have them again.

[nabla9]

"just log in"?

How you do that after you use Apple Passkey and lose your phone? (and SIM)

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Because your iCloud Keychain has nothing to do with your SIM card.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-icloud-keych...

[nabla9]

I know it does not. It's in the Cloud. I was referring to SIM and phone number when I was thinking potential way to recover.

Can you explain how a person can login into their iCloud and recover their iCloud Keychain after they have lost their only Apple device (iPhone) if Apple Passkey needed to access iCloud?

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Passkey is not required to access iCloud. You're thinking of 2FA on an Apple ID.

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204974

[nabla9]

Thanks. As I expected. You need to have your SIM (to get access into iCloud)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213305

>To recover a keychain, a user must authenticate with their iCloud account and password and respond to an SMS sent to their registered phone number.

In other words. If you lose your iPhone (containing your SIM) you can't get access to iCloud or iCloud keychain until you have a new SIM with the same phone number from your carrier.

If you travel in a foreign country and lose your iPhone you are locked out of "everything Apple".