Microsoft Authenticator

Use Microsoft Authenticator for easy, secure sign-ins for all of your on-line accounts utilizing multi-factor authentication, passwordless, or password autofill. You also have additional account management choices on your Microsoft personal, work or school accounts.

Getting started with multi-factor authentication

Multi factor authentication (MFA) or two issue authentication (2FA) offers a second layer of safety. When logging in with multi-factor authentication, you’ll enter your password, and then you’ll be asked for an additional method to show it’s actually you. Either approve the notification sent to the Microsoft Authenticator, or enter the one-time password (OTP) generated by the app. The one-time passwords (OTP codes) have a 30 second timer counting down. This timer is so that you by no means have to make use of the same time-based one-time password (TOTP) twice and you don’t have to recollect the number. The one-time password (OTP) doesn’t require you to be related to a community, and it won’t drain your battery. You can add a number of accounts to your app, including non-Microsoft accounts like Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, and extra.

Getting began with passwordless

Use your cellphone, not your password, to log into your Microsoft account. Just enter your username, then approve the notification despatched to your phone. Your fingerprint, face ID, or PIN will provide a second layer of safety in this two-step verification course of. After you’ve signed in with two issue authentication (2FA), you’ll have entry to all your Microsoft products and services, similar to Outlook, OneDrive, Office, and extra.

Getting began with autofill

Microsoft Authenticator app can even autofill passwords for you. Sign-in on the Passwords tab inside the Authenticator app along with your private Microsoft account to start syncing passwords, including the passwords saved in Microsoft Edge. Make Microsoft Authenticator the default autofill provider and begin autofilling passwords on apps and websites you go to in your mobile. Your passwords are protected with multi-factor authentication within the app. You might need to prove your self with your fingerprint, face ID, or PIN to access and autofill passwords on your mobile. You also can import passwords from Google Chrome and different password managers.

Microsoft private, work or faculty accounts

Sometimes your work or college may ask you to put in the Microsoft Authenticator when accessing certain recordsdata, emails, or apps. You might need to register your device to your group by way of the app and add your work or college account. Microsoft Authenticator additionally supports cert-based authentication by issuing a certificates on your device. This will let your organization know that the sign-in request is coming from a trusted device and allow you to seamlessly and securely access further Microsoft apps and services without having to log into every. Because Microsoft Authenticator supports single sign-on, after you have proven your id once, you will not must log in once more to other Microsoft apps in your device.

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