Here are some other, safer ways to verify your identity and sign into your accounts. Do you receive login security codes for your online accounts via text message? These are the six- or seven-digit ...

Microsoft Authenticator makes it much easier to move to a new phone because you can back up your log-in credentials and accounts ... biometric verification on phones, and email and text messages.

Microsoft Authenticator will drop autofilling and stops storing passwords in July, with Edge taking over as the default ...

If you use Microsoft Authenticator as your password manager, you need to find an alternative in the next few weeks. Microsoft is ending password storage and autofill in its Authenticator app, and ...

Microsoft is removing password management from its Authenticator app by August 2025, moving the feature to Edge and ...

A million two-factor authentication codes sent via SMS passed through an obscure third-party company. Here's how it happened ...

Microsoft stands out from the authenticator crowd by annihilating accounts when new accounts are introduced via QR code. Despite user complaints for years, no fix has been issued, leaving IT ...

Microsoft has made Authy, Google Authenticator, and similar apps incompatible, a choice that needlessly inconveniences users and undermines the whole “passwordless by default” marketing message.

Users of Microsoft Authenticator have been warned to save all their passwords before the company plans to phase out its password management system starting next month.

All of the authenticator apps on this list generate time-based, one-time passcodes (TOTP or OTP), which are usually six digits that refresh every 30 seconds. Once you set up MFA, just type the ...