Running Google Authenticator on your mobile device is an effective way to protect your online accounts and logins with two-factor authenticator codes. But in the past, those codes would appear ...

Previously, one-time Authenticator codes were stored locally, on a single device, meaning losing that device often meant losing the ability to sign in to any service set up with Authenticator’s 2FA.

Your Google Authenticator one-time codes are no longer trapped if you lose the device that stores them. An update to Authenticator for Android and iOS now stores backups of codes in your Google ...

While Google Authenticator is immensely popular, one of the biggest critiques has been the inability to back up one-time 2FA codes and the lack of multi-device support.

The Authy Authenticator, for instance, doesn’t sync by default, and when a user turns syncing on, codes are end-to-end encrypted. When stored on Authy corporate parent Twilio’s servers, the ...

Google Authenticator finally, mercifully adds account syncing for two-factor codes. Now, whenever you upgrade to a new phone, your one-time codes will be readily available once you’ve signed in ...