In plain English
This means disconnecting a device from being linked to an account or service. The key point is that the device is not one the person recognizes as familiar or expected. It is about ending that connection.
In context
Here, it instructs the user to take a device they do not recognize off the account.
- Situation
- Responding to phishing, suspicious activity, fraud, and compromise alerts
- What it communicates
- instructs the user to take an unknown device off the account.
Meaning limits
The term alone does not establish how the device became associated or any wider effect of ending that association.
Examples
“Seeing a tablet she did not recognize linked to her account, she removed the unfamiliar device.”
“The alert told her to remove the unfamiliar device from the account.”