In plain English
This means marking the device you are currently using as one the service will recognise again later. For future sign-ins on that same device, it is treated as trusted. Because of that trusted status, you do not need to verify your identity there every time.
In context
Here, it offers to have the current device treated as a trusted device for future sign-ins so that identity does not need to be verified on that device every time.
- Situation
- Setting passwords, multifactor authentication, recovery codes, and trusted devices
- What it communicates
- offers to save the current device after a successful MFA challenge
Meaning limits
The term itself does not establish how long the device will continue to be treated as trusted, because that can vary.
Examples
“After signing in on her own tablet, she chose to remember this device, so later sign-ins there did not require her to verify her identity every time.”
“While signing in on his home laptop, he tapped Remember this device.”