Back up your Coinbase wallet SRP to iCloud or Google Drive

 Back up your Coinbase wallet SRP to iCloud or Google Drive 

Losing access to your SRP or Secret Recovery Phrase would mean that you will never be able to use your Coinbase wallet again. Hence, during the onboarding process of the wallet, the team suggests you to refer create a backup of the seed phrase which means you can back up your wallet completely to iCloud or your Google Drive.

Don't you know how to do that? Well, in that case, this informative guide is going to be pretty handy for you. In this post, we shall learn a few important details about the same. So, stay tuned to learn more about backing up your 12-word secret recovery phrase.

This feature has been specifically developed by the Coinbase team so that users can access their wallets as and when needed even when they lose their SRPs or when they need to access their wallet on an unrecognized device. Isn't that great?

With that understood, let us now step ahead and learn the procedure of doing the same.

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Steps to back up your wallet 

To create a backup of the wallet, this is what you need to do:

1. First of all, sign in to your Coinbase wallet as usual
2. Now, make your way to the "Settings" menu and select "Backup Manually"
3. After that, you can make a selection for the option referred to as "Backup to iCloud/ Google Drive"
4. If you choose the option to create a manual backup, you will see the seed phrase on your screen
5. You can either copy and paste this seed phrase or write it down in several places
6. Write down the seed phrase in the same manner as you see it

This shall help you create a backup of the wallet or the wallet's Secret Recovery Phrase. 

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Additional information: 

• On the other hand, if you have opted for the option to create a backup on iCloud or Google Drive, then you need to make sure that it is backed up without any alteration in spelling or without any displacement of words.
• In order to enhance the safety of your seed phrase or your wallet that you have backed up on iCloud, you can also password-protect it. However, try to create a password that you can easily remember.
• Before you log out of your wallet, you will see a warning message on your screen telling you that logging out without backing up the wallet would lead to permanent loss of access to the wallet.

To Conclude: 

After reading this informative post about backing up your Coinbase wallet, it is understood that a seed phrase or the secret recovery phrase is the key element of the wallet. This is not the case only with this particular wallet but the same goes for any other wallet that you choose for safely storing your crypto assets. On the other hand, if you did not find this post helpful, then you can follow the guidelines given on the official website of Coinbase.