Released on Monday for iOS and Android, the latest version of Google Authenticator lets you back up and sync your one-time 2FA codes to your Google account via the cloud.

Google Authenticator now syncs one-time codes with your account, so you're not stuck if you lose your device.

Google has said it's 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 you would scan with your device.

You can now sync sign-in codes across devices—but they aren’t end-to-end encrypted.

An update to Google Authenticator this week finally enabled backups for your two-factor authentication codes. But the feature comes with a security risk.

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Google later added a more pleasant code-transfer system in which the copy of Authenticator on your old phone generates a QR code that you scan with Authenticator on your new device.

Google has updated its Authenticator smartphone app for Android and iOS with support for backing up two-factor authentication (2FA) codes to the cloud.