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Last time I checked and tried to have good 2fa on a Google account with only that, TOTP is only allowed as an "additional" means of 2fa and to enable it you al
by minipoulion 5y ago
Last time I checked and tried to have good 2fa on a Google account with only that,
TOTP is only allowed as an "additional" means of 2fa and to enable it you already need to have the Google Android promt authentication/phone? 2fa configured (Maybe not exactly like that, but basically you cant just add TOTP without having something worse already added).
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- dmoy 5y agoI do not have SMS 2fa on my google account, but I do have TOTP and now U2F. At one point I definitely had only TOTP. At one point, I also had only U2F. What I don't remember is whether or not I had SMS 2fa before and removed it, or never had it at all.
- pilsetnieks 5y agoThey allowed TOTP as primary method for 2FA before they put the Google app prompt in there as an option. So it was possible to set it up that way before 2016-2017-ish, I guess.
- dmoy 5y agookay that would make sense, since I've had 2fa set up for it basically since they allowed it as an option sucks to hear that you can't set it up that way initially anymore, if that's the case.
- CarelessExpert 5y agoThis is not accurate. I just checked because I thought I was crazy: my account has SMS-based 2FA specifically disabled. The only enabled options are the Android prompt, Google Authenticator, and a set of backup codes.
- pilsetnieks 5y agoYour comment is not accurate in the sense that it is currently not possible to enable 2FA on an account without it without a phone with either SMS verification or with a Google app prompt. If you have set it up in the past, before this, it will look different to you. If you set it up right now, you can remove the phone number later but somewhere in the bowels of Google the number will probably still remain to tie it to your dossier.
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