Ask HN: Is Google phasing out Authenticator/TOTP?

Re:Ask HN: Is Google phasing out Authenticator/TOTP? by mmastrac on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:08AM (#30454190)

I dislike how the only way to get TOTP codes off a device is by rooting. I had a half dozen codes that I had to dump from the sqlite db when I first used authenticator.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google phasing out Authenticator/TOTP? by cian on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:14AM (#30454237)

Thankfully this has been fixed. You can now choose "Transfer accounts" (from the menu in the top right corner) to copy everything to Google Authenticator on a new (or backup) phone.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google phasing out Authenticator/TOTP? by mmastrac on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:16AM (#30454267)

Interesting! I ended up going with the LastPass authenticator in the end because of this issue but I am happy to see it fixed.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google phasing out Authenticator/TOTP? by krmboya on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:17AM (#30454270)

I use andOTP[1] installed via f-droid. You can easily get a backup file with your codes.

[1] https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google phasing out Authenticator/TOTP? by aorth on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:19PM (#30459730)

Just FYI, it's possible to backup your codes on Android using Aegis too. No root needed.

https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google phasing out Authenticator/TOTP? by simonmales on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:36AM (#30454474)

This!

Though now Google Authenticator supports transfers, there is less of a need.

But I still enjoy using andOTP.

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