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A comment on Ask HN: What is going on with SMS 2FA?.

Re:Ask HN: What is going on with SMS 2FA? by jesse5dotcom on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:13AM (#50380940)
Your device is set to automatically delete verification codes after using AutoFill.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/auto-delete-verification-co...

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Re:Ask HN: What is going on with SMS 2FA? by tkdb on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:24AM (#50381076)
Verified - this is enabled on my phone.

I (think I) like this, now that I know it's there.

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Re:Ask HN: What is going on with SMS 2FA? by beardyw on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:52AM (#50381407)
Though presumably they are one time only. Not sure if this is achieving anything?
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Re:Ask HN: What is going on with SMS 2FA? by codnee on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:42PM (#50385550)
What do you mean? It's useful because they are one time only. It saves you the trouble of manually deleting them.
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