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This hit me the other day. I dropped my phone and smashed both the screen and display making it essentially unusable. I needed to get into my email. I had no Wi
by grawprog 5y ago
This hit me the other day. I dropped my phone and smashed both the screen and display making it essentially unusable. I needed to get into my email. I had no WiFi but I had access to an older phone with data. Tried to sign in on the other phone. It said I needed to confirm the login on my device, I obviously could not, it gave me an option saying 'can't access phone' so I clicked it, it took me to a page saying too bad sorry no signing in for you and that was it, I was locked out of email until I bought a new phone and set it up.
- danlugo92 5y ago1. Add OTP to your account ("Google Authenticator", Lastpass, etc). 2. Remove phone number from account. 3. Enjoy not needing a phone ever again to login. 4. Might take a couple of days for (3) to stick, train the algorith by logging in a couple of times using OTP.
- programmertote 5y agoHow does one add OTP to her/his Google account? Is there a guide/instruction that you could share? Thanks in advance!
- maxk42 5y agoYour solution for not needing a phone to log in is to use Google Authenticator which is a phone app that would've been on the smashed phone? I recently went through this exact scenario: Old phone broke. Bought a new one, restored backup. Guess which app doesn't restore its data from the old phone? Google Authenticator. Lost access to all my TOTP logins.
- shadowgovt 5y agoI've been bit by this before also. It's important to take the one time passcodes that Google provides seriously and keep a couple of them in your wallet.