Google is planning to move away from sending six-digit authentication codes through SMS messages as a two-factor authentication tool for Gmail, Forbes reports. Instead, over the next few months ...

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Google is planning to stop sending 2FA codes via text message to verify Gmail accounts in favor of security tools such as passkeys and QR codes that users would scan with their devices.

Messages for Web authentication will soon be account based instead of requiring you to scan a QR code like a caveman. By C. Scott Brown • October 31, 2023 ...

Last month, Twitter announced its users would no longer be able to use text message two-factor authentication, or SMS 2FA, where a user gets their one-time code as a text message, for free.