What are primary and recovery mobile numbers?

What are primary and recovery mobile numbers?

The primary mobile number is used to sign into your account and the recovery mobile numbers are used only to recover your account. You can only have one primary mobile number for your Zoho account, but you can have multiple recovery mobile numbers. 

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