It is said on their website that if you lose your phone or it dies, you can get a free boarding pass at the airport.

Source: https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/lp/explore/digital-boarding-pa...

This should be at the top of this thread... it practically makes the whole thing a nothingburger.

It moves the app one notch back from mandatory, but that's still enough to be a real problem. That method is going to have very low capacity and if you lie about your phone being dead or elsewhere that might screw you over.

> if you lie about your phone being dead or elsewhere that might screw you over.

I would bet money this will never happen, but ok.

Last year I purchased a ticket to a Broadway show in NYC. I refused to use their digital ticketing nonsense, and when I showed up at the box office just before showtime and said my phone wasn't working (for my own definition of "working") they just handed me paper tickets. So I have to believe every one of these companies must have a way of issuing tickets when people's phones "don't work."

So always carry a dead phone with you when flying Ryanair.