diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5a5221..85cb8d7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2820,6 +2820,9 @@ view would leave a wallet one click from deletion.
     - "Export Saved Data" button, and the read-only text box it fills
     - What erasing does and does not do, in bold: every wallet stored in this
       browser is deleted; nothing on chain changes and no money is moved
+    - What a wallet can be added again from: a kept copy of its recovery phrase,
+      private key or extended private key. Without that copy or the exported
+      copy, everything the wallet holds is gone forever.
     - A text input asking for `ERASE MY WALLET` to be typed back
     - Error line
     - "Erase Saved Data" button
diff --git a/src/popup/index.html b/src/popup/index.html
index 81e3eb2..2ccd7d0 100644
--- a/src/popup/index.html
+++ b/src/popup/index.html
@@ -1994,10 +1994,11 @@
                         >Erasing the saved data deletes every wallet stored in
                         this browser.</strong
                     >
-                    Nothing on the blockchain changes and no money is moved, but
-                    without the exported copy above, or the recovery phrase for
-                    each wallet written down, everything they hold is gone
-                    forever.
+                    Nothing on the blockchain changes and no money is moved. If
+                    you kept a copy of a wallet's recovery phrase, private key
+                    or extended private key, you can add that wallet again.
+                    Without that copy or the exported copy above, everything the
+                    wallet holds is gone forever.
                 </p>
                 <p class="text-xs mb-1">
                     To confirm, type
diff --git a/tests/stateRecovery.test.js b/tests/stateRecovery.test.js
index 8fd2064..d4f605e 100644
--- a/tests/stateRecovery.test.js
+++ b/tests/stateRecovery.test.js
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
 // version field, and showing those users a wipe prompt would be a worse defect
 // than the one being fixed. It is migrated in place and keeps working.
 
+const fs = require("fs");
+const path = require("path");
+
 const {
     bootPopup,
     cleanupPopup,
@@ -148,6 +151,29 @@ describe("the destructive reset on the recovery screen", () => {
     });
 });
 
+// A key or xprv wallet has no recovery phrase, so the erase warning names all
+// three backups (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/593). The boot
+// harness holds no static text, so this reads the markup itself.
+describe("the erase warning on the recovery screen", () => {
+    test("names the recovery phrase, the private key and the extended private key", () => {
+        const html = fs.readFileSync(
+            path.join(__dirname, "..", "src", "popup", "index.html"),
+            "utf8",
+        );
+        const start = html.indexOf('id="view-state-recovery"');
+        const end = html.indexOf('id="btn-state-recovery-reset"', start);
+        const screenText = html
+            .slice(start, end)
+            .replace(/<[^>]*>/g, " ")
+            .replace(/\s+/g, " ");
+
+        expect(screenText).toContain(
+            "If you kept a copy of a wallet's recovery phrase, private key or " +
+                "extended private key, you can add that wallet again.",
+        );
+    });
+});
+
 describe("a popup already open when the stored profile becomes unreadable", () => {
     // https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/373. The popup used to stay
     // on the wallet list with the last good balances, and only a reopen