What to do if you lose your phone while traveling abroad

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Carrying a secondary backup device such as a tablet, laptop, or older phone already logged into accounts
2. 2
   Printing physical paper copies of all reservations, tickets, and travel itineraries
3. 3
   Using eSIMs that can be re-downloaded onto a replacement device via Wi-Fi
4. 4
   Setting up multiple secondary and tertiary authentication methods for password managers and accounts
5. 5
   Buying a cheap replacement phone locally to get through the trip

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.