Choose your manual upgrade scenario

Upgrade from another Tails

If you know someone you trust who already did the upgrade, you can upgrade your Tails by cloning from it.

You need:

• Your Tails USB stick
• Another up-to-date Tails (USB stick or DVD)
• ¼ hour to upgrade

Upgrade inside Tails

You need:

• Your Tails USB stick
• Another empty USB stick (at least 4 GB) Why?
  X

  It is currently impossible to manually upgrade a Tails USB stick while running from itself. This scenario requires creating an intermediary Tails on another USB stick, from which to upgrade your Tails.

• 1 hour to download Tails ( 1.2 GiB )
• ½ hour to upgrade