What to do if FL Studio says "FL Studio needs to be unlocked."

It was displayed after updating FL Studio to 20.9, so I will write it down.

It seems that the activation has changed a little from this version.

Please wait for an article explaining the update contents of 20.9 to be published tomorrow.

What to do if FL Studio says "FL Studio needs to be unlocked."

This is the solution when the following dialog appears.

Click "Unlock FL Studio" when the dialog appears.

If you know the user name and password to log in to your FL Studio account immediately, put them in the red frame in the figure below and click "Unlock with account".

The code will be sent to the registered e-mail address.

The subject is as follows.
The 6-digit number of # is "Authentication code".

Copy this, or copy the same "Authentication code" after "Your verification code is:" in the text.

Image Line Account | Two Factor Authentication code (######) [Action Required]

Paste it into "Enter hte verification code here" and click "Continue".

You will be asked to restart (restart FL), so select it according to the situation.

If you don't know the username and password to log in to your FL Studio account, or if you want to unlock it on your offline device

If you have saved your password in your browser, you may not know it immediately.

In such a case, you can unlock it by downloading the registry file.

Click "Unlock FL Studio" when the dialog appears.

Then click "More".

You need to upload a "Validation File", so click "Save validation file…" to save the file.

Then log in to your FL Studio account.
(If you cannot log in, you should reset your password and log in to your account using the above procedure to unlock it.)

Click "UNLOCK PRODUCTS" on the left side, and click "+" on the lower right side.

Click this link.

Then the following screen will appear, so click "Upload"

Select the Validation File you just saved and upload it.

Then "FLRegikey.Reg" will be downloaded and executed.

Since it is a registry file, the following screen will appear, but just click "Run" to proceed.

Click "Yes" for the next message to continue.

Now when you start FL Studio, it will start in an unlocked state.

Summary

Activation was a little more complicated than before.

However, it's really a little.

It's really wonderful that each company has recently been moving to simplify activation.

I think making music is a creative thing, but I don't think it's okay to wait for the DAW to start and lose ideas.