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The manually verify by text option is an advanced feature, that will mark a device as verified for everyone by by-passing the real verification process.
As a result the targeted session will be verified but will not have access to other secrets (not be able to decrypt history, not capable of verifying new devices, ..).

Web as moved this as a dev tool too (element-hq/element-web#30094).

We have reports of users accidentaly using this advanced feature, resulting in half setup devices.
It will now be shown anymore unless the developper mode is enabled.

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@ganfra ganfra merged commit 69af25a into develop Aug 6, 2025
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@ganfra ganfra deleted the bca/hide_manually_verify_behind_flag branch August 6, 2025 12:24
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