Yes. If you don’t verify, every conversation is empty.
But it also asks for recovery key and complains about it being out of sync until entered even if you do the verification step! Entirely possible to only get a partial recovery of messages until this is entered.
That's not normal. It doesn't happen on any of my accounts or clients. Verification takes a moment if you're in a lot of rooms, but it exchanges all keys.
been a pretty reliable issue when I've set up a new device. Whatever keys the client is getting, they're apparently not useful.
(This general flakiness of features just sometimes not working as they should is probably the main reason I haven't tried to recommend friends to switch to element)
cannot confirm this either
one method of verification suffices (be it recovery key or using a different device)
> Doesn’t verification also exchange encryption keys, letting you decrypt messages from before you logged in?
if you use key backup
Probably just bad UX to let people skip the verification step.