Trezor safe 3 Passpharase confussion please HELP

Security About seeds and wallet
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I know It’s Quite noob Question but I do not want to make any mistake (Passphrase )

Hello everyone. I am a trezor safe3 owner, I created a new wallet and sent 30 dollars into it but while doing so , I did not create any passphrase. It was just a standard wallet .

As far as I understand, if I create a passphrase, it will create a new wallet for me and this wallet will be the hidden wallet I specified, and thus the $30 I sent before will not be in the hidden wallet and 30 usd will remain in unsafe ı mean not hidden am ı right so far If so ?

My second Question is, let’s assume while I am creating my wallet , I added passphrase , Do I have to send money to the wallet with the passphrase one ?, right? When I set up a passphrase, it gives me a new hidden Eth or Btc address apart from standrad wallet’s eth or btc address right? These are hidden wallet adresses secured via hidden passphrase ? Am I right ?

My 3rd question is , Are the seed phrases of this hidden passphrase wallet different or Will this passphrase be the 25th word that ı created for extra security ? What ı mean is 24 seed phrase +1 passphrase ( Bip39). , just like 20 seed phrase + 1 passphrase (SLIP 39) to access funds or totally new seed phrase created into hidden wallet plus passphrase ı created ,

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Hello,
Your 12/24 seedphrase is the foundation of your private key. Without doing anything else you have a safe and sound wallet.

If you add an additional phrase (passphrase or salt) you will have a completely new wallet/keys and hence new addresses! I would not call it hidden (I think that is Ledger term).

You have to do your own risk assessment if a passphrase will add more security to your keys. There are plenty of stories of people still having their seedphrase, but shy of the passphrase.

My personal option:
Keep your access to your coins as simple and safe as possible in terms you have to use another wallet!

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In summary (to simplify the explanation), using an additional passphrase is like having another Trezor device, but virtually contained within a single Trezor device.

By default, in the Trezor Suite, the passphrase feature is “hidden” because the Trezor Suite only loads the standard wallet (without a passphrase).

So, where should you send your money? That’s entirely up to you. You don’t have to create a hidden wallet (with a passphrase). Using only the standard wallet is perfectly fine.