School labs, internet cafes, hotel business centers, and borrowed laptops are not home devices. Someone else may share the OS user profile, browsers may cache credentials, and you may leave verification codes sitting in clipboard history. Closing a tab without handling account state can be more damaging than the initial login.
This differs from selling a phone—see the old device handoff checklist for ownership transfer. This page covers short-term shared or public terminals.
Before you walk away
- Sign out inside SafeW using the current in-app flow; do not assume closing the browser is enough.
- If you used a web session or QR login, check whether the browser saved passwords or stayed logged in.
- Clear clipboard entries that might still hold codes or temporary secrets (pair with the keyboard and clipboard advisory).
- On a trusted device later, open signed-in device management and remove the shared or borrowed machine.
- If the network behaved oddly, cross-check the public Wi-Fi advisory before blaming the app.
Managed or someone else's workstation
Company laptops may run monitoring, disk encryption, or mandatory login profiles. Do not try to bypass security tooling. Keep the session short, sign out cleanly, and verify your account-side device list afterward. Avoid leaving recovery screenshots or persistent auto-login on hardware you do not control.
For installs or reinstalls, follow the current source on the SafeW download page.
Practical check: If you only remember closing a tab, still review your logged-in devices when you get home—often faster than reinstalling blindly.