“Confirm your recovery key” is strange lanuage given you haven’t already entered your key

[ara4n]

Steps to reproduce

1. At various points the app asks you to “confirm your recovery key”.
2. What it’s actually asking you to do is “enter your recovery key”
3. You’re not confirming it, as that would imply you have already entered it at some point already, and this is a confirmation prompt, rather than asking you to enter it for the first time.

Outcome

What did you expect?

prompt should be “enter your recovery key” or “provide your recovery key”

What happened instead?

a strange misuse of the word “confirm”, which is normally used in UI to mean a confirmational check of a user’s actions, rather than prompting for an action in the first place.

Your phone model

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Operating system version

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Application version

457

Homeserver

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Will you send logs?

No

[ara4n]

see also #2217

[ara4n]

see also #2243

[ara4n]

it should also have coherent text for users who didn't have backup set up in the first place

[pmaier1]

There are at least two user flows where you need to enter your recovery key to fix things

1. Your device is unverified and you don't have another device to verify it
2. Your key backup is borked (your device doesn't have all the secrets it needs to operate the backup)

For 1, I suggest we offer the options
a) Use another device
b) Use recovery key

For 2, I suggest we change the copy to "Enter recovery key", keeping the subtext "Your chat backup is currently out of sync"

cc @americanrefugee