Manual backup

Explain first, in two sentences: what the words do, and that a photograph of them is a copy of the money. Then show them.

Lead with a warning screen full of prohibitions. "Never screenshot, never email, never store in the cloud" is three nos before a person knows what the thing is.

Number every word and show them in a fixed grid. Order matters and a reflowing list makes it ambiguous.

Disable screenshots on this screen where the platform allows it, and say why rather than failing silently.

Offer copy to clipboard. The clipboard is readable by other apps and syncs between devices.

Say on the words screen which wallets can restore them: "These words restore your wallet in apps that support BSV recovery words. Other wallets may show an empty balance."

Confirm a few words at positions the user must read, then follow it with the question that matters: where is this going to live?

Require every word back. People copy and paste to get past it, usually from the clipboard you just told them not to use.

Ask, concretely, and offer sensible answers to pick from: a drawer at home, a safe, with a family member, a bank box. A choice is easier to make than a blank.

Suggest two locations in different buildings, in plain words: "one at home, one somewhere else you can reach".

Record what the user chose, so the recovery screen can remind them where they said they put it. A year later that is genuinely useful. Keep it inside the encrypted wallet backup, never in plain text with a provider.

Offer shares as an alternative, not an addition. Words and shares are two encodings of the same secret, so holding both makes two complete copies to protect rather than a safer arrangement.

Offer shares to someone who will keep all five in the same drawer. Ask where they would go before offering the option.

Offer a recovery check at any time, which asks for the words and confirms they match without moving money. Put it where a worried user would look, which is settings and the backup screen, not a help article.