diff --git a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCConfirmSeed.qml b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCConfirmSeed.qml
index 2440291c9..438c686c3 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCConfirmSeed.qml
+++ b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCConfirmSeed.qml
@@ -52,8 +52,7 @@ WizardComponent {
         }
     }
 
-    onReadyChanged: {
-        if (ready)
-            customwordstext.visible = wizard_data['seed_extend']
+    Component.onCompleted: {
+        customwordstext.visible = wizard_data['seed_extend']
     }
 }
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerKeystore.qml b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerKeystore.qml
index df686819b..0c6163943 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerKeystore.qml
+++ b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerKeystore.qml
@@ -40,10 +40,7 @@ WizardComponent {
         }
     }
 
-    onReadyChanged: {
-        if (!ready)
-            return
-
+    Component.onCompleted: {
         participants = wizard_data['multisig_participants']
 
         // cosigner index is determined here and put on the wizard_data dict in apply()
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerSeed.qml b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerSeed.qml
index 9ecfb63e5..a3deb24b4 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerSeed.qml
+++ b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCosignerSeed.qml
@@ -23,10 +23,7 @@ WCHaveSeed {
         wizard_data['cosigner_seed_extra_words'] = seed_extra_words
     }
 
-    onReadyChanged: {
-        if (!ready)
-            return
-
+    Component.onCompleted: {
         participants = wizard_data['multisig_participants']
         cosigner = wizard_data['multisig_current_cosigner']
     }
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCreateSeed.qml b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCreateSeed.qml
index ee8c3ba1e..65b7e1d77 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCreateSeed.qml
+++ b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCCreateSeed.qml
@@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ WizardComponent {
         }
     }
 
-    onReadyChanged: {
-        if (!ready)
-            return
+    Component.onCompleted: {
         bitcoin.generate_seed(wizard_data['seed_type'])
     }
 
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCHaveSeed.qml b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCHaveSeed.qml
index 582b5cc31..1a06f4edb 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCHaveSeed.qml
+++ b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCHaveSeed.qml
@@ -168,14 +168,9 @@ WizardComponent {
     }
 
     Component.onCompleted: {
-        setSeedTypeHelpText()
-    }
-
-    onReadyChanged: {
-        if (!ready)
-            return
-
         if (wizard_data['wallet_type'] == '2fa')
             root.is2fa = true
+        setSeedTypeHelpText()
     }
+
 }
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCShowMasterPubkey.qml b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCShowMasterPubkey.qml
index 2deed2e24..2477700f3 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCShowMasterPubkey.qml
+++ b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/WCShowMasterPubkey.qml
@@ -52,10 +52,7 @@ WizardComponent {
         id: bitcoin
     }
 
-    onReadyChanged: {
-        if (!ready)
-            return
-
+    Component.onCompleted: {
         if (wizard_data['seed_variant'] == 'electrum') {
             masterPubkey = bitcoin.getMultisigMasterPubkey(wizard_data['seed_variant'], wizard_data['seed'], wizard_data['seed_extra_words'])
         } else {
diff --git a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/Wizard.qml b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/Wizard.qml
index 655087e0b..d6b9d40dd 100644
--- a/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/Wizard.qml
+++ b/electrum/gui/qml/components/wizard/Wizard.qml
@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@ Dialog {
             console.log(comp.errorString())
             return null
         }
-        var page = comp.createObject(pages)
+
+        // make a deepcopy of wdata and pass it to the component
+        var wdata_copy={}
+        Object.assign(wdata_copy, wdata)
+        var page = comp.createObject(pages, {wizard_data: wdata_copy})
         page.validChanged.connect(function() {
             pages.pagevalid = page.valid
         } )
@@ -58,8 +62,7 @@ Dialog {
             var wdata = wiz.prev()
             console.log('prev view data: ' + JSON.stringify(wdata))
         })
-        Object.assign(page.wizard_data, wdata) // deep copy
-        page.ready = true // signal page it can access wizard_data
+
         pages.pagevalid = page.valid
         pages.lastpage = page.last