Google Authenticator 7.0 brings a Material You redesign and new features, while changing how you copy 2-factor authentication (2FA) codes.

Google Authenticator 7.0 brings a Material You redesign and new features, while changing how you copy 2-factor authentication (2FA) codes.

  • Eager EagleEnglish
    28•1 month ago

    Previously, you long-pressed on those six digits in the account list to copy to your clipboard.

    With last week’s Google Authenticator update, a simple tap is how you copy those codes. (That being said, we’ve noticed that a long-press sometimes still works in version 7.0, but it’s inconsistent and the single tap is clearly the intended behavior.) A single touch is definitely simpler, but users have to adjust to this.

    Google Auth and Authy lock you in, consider migrating to Aegis or Ente Auth.

    • WilliamEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      It’s too bad Ente doesn’t have any browser extensions, because it sounds pretty awesome otherwise.

    • @ikiddEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      Don’t most password managers also have TFA builtin?

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 month ago

        Yes but from a security perspective, that’s like putting your house keys with your photo ID that has your address.

      • Eager EagleEnglish
        5•1 month ago

        when i had to do it, they could only be exported to another google auth via QR code. I was forced to recreate the codes on every service.

        • falconerayEnglish
          7•1 month ago

          Someone made a parser for the Google QR codes and now some apps can import them directly. I switched to aegis this weekend and it worked perfectly.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 month ago

            If you need a third party app to extract the private key, then it isn’t actually open. It’s just the step before Google encrypts the output.