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Until you lose your phone. There is no way to back up/recover. So it's tied to this particular device forever. This has been reported years ago and never fixed.
by kvz 11y ago
Until you lose your phone. There is no way to back up/recover. So it's tied to this particular device forever. This has been reported years ago and never fixed. Use authy or sms.
- NetStrikeForce 11y agoI don't think that's accurate. I've changed phones multiple times and the worst I had to do was find my list of 10 recovery passwords to use one to get in and change the phone I use with Authenticator. Usually I would just login and add the new phone.
- kiallmacinnes 11y agoAgree, I've lost phones with many of my 2FA tokens on it, I pulled out my backup codes and got back into all 10-15 or so sites which I use 2FA on. With the exception of a SMS to a registered phone recovery method, if I can loose my 2FA token, and loose my backup codes, and still access my account, then the 2FA implementation is IMO deeply flawed.
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- chromakode 11y agoI just save + encrypt the original QR code somewhere at the time of scanning it.
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- kiallmacinnes 11y agoOn a personal note, I despise apps like Authy. Every site I've tried to use 2FA on, which didn't use the standard HOTP/TOTP/U2F used an entirely different proprietary app. I have zero interest in having multiple 2FA apps, and even less interest in remembering which app I used on which site. While this clearly isn't Authys fault, its nevertheless a problem. In other words, please just use standards based 2FA - or SMS/Phone calls.