Restore a wallet

Lost your computer, or moving to a new one? Your seeds bring your coins back. Use Restore wallet from… in the menu, or File › New/Restore if a wallet is open.

From your seeds

  1. Choose Restore wallet from… › Seed, then your Monero seed type: 16 words (Polyseed, what Biscuit and Feather create), 25 words (Monero’s classic seed) or 14 words (old Feather seeds).
  2. Type the words with one space between each. For a 25-word seed, pick its language first.
  3. If you added a passphrase to the seed, tick it under Options; Biscuit asks for it next.
  4. For 25 and 14-word seeds, Biscuit asks when the wallet was created: a restore height, or a date. If you don’t know, enter an earlier date: it only makes the first sync longer. Polyseeds contain their date.
  5. Choose a name and a password. The wallet opens and starts to synchronize.

Then Bitcoin and Litecoin

Go to Receive, pick Bitcoin or Litecoin, and choose Restore from seed. Enter your 12 or 24 words, and the BIP39 passphrase if you used one (sometimes called the 25th word). Biscuit encrypts them with this wallet’s password.

If you had added more Bitcoin or Litecoin wallets, each with its own seed, add them again with Add wallet › Restore from seed. Biscuit uses native SegWit addresses (bc1q…, ltc1q…): coins on older address types of the same seed don’t show. See Bitcoin and Litecoin.

What a seed doesn’t bring back

Your coins, your history and your addresses come back. Labels, contacts, transaction descriptions, transaction keys and swap history don’t: they only live in your wallet files. Keep a copy of those too, see Seeds and backups.

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