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 Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    9 days 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.

    • William@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

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

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

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

    • evo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      9 days ago

      How? Codes can easily be exported from Google Authenticator (never tried Authy).

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 days 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.

        • falconeray@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          9 days 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.

          • Count042@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            8 days 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.