Microsoft Authenticator

Use Microsoft Authenticator for easy, secure sign-ins for all of your on-line accounts using multi-factor authentication, passwordless, or password autofill. You even have further account management options on your Microsoft personal, work or school accounts.

Getting started with multi-factor authentication

Multi factor authentication (MFA) or two issue authentication (2FA) provides a second layer of safety. When logging in with multi-factor authentication, you’ll enter your password, and you then’ll be requested for an additional way to show it’s actually you. Either approve the notification despatched 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 never have to make use of the identical time-based mostly one-time password (TOTP) twice and also you don’t have to recollect the quantity. The one-time password (OTP) doesn’t require you to be linked to a network, and it received’t drain your battery. You can add a number of accounts to your app, together with non-Microsoft accounts like Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, and extra.

Getting began with passwordless

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

Getting began with autofill

Microsoft Authenticator app also can autofill passwords for you. Sign-in on the Passwords tab contained in the Authenticator app with your private Microsoft account to start out syncing passwords, together with the passwords saved in Microsoft Edge. Make Microsoft Authenticator the default autofill provider and