Google Authenticator 4+
Google LLC
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- #5 in Utilities
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- Free
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Description
Google Authenticator works with 2-Step Verification for your Google Account to provide an additional layer of security when signing in.
With 2-Step Verification, signing into your account will require both your password and a verification code that you can generate with this app. Once configured, you can get verification codes without the need for a network or mobile connection.
Features include:
- Automatic setup via QR code
- Support for multiple accounts
- Support for time-based and counter-based code generation
- Transfer of accounts between devices via QR code
To use Google Authenticator with Google, you need to enable 2-Step Verification on your Google Account. Visit http://www.google.com/2step to get started.
What’s New
Version 3.4.0
- Added iPad multitasking features and the ability to drag and drop OTP codes
- Minor bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Finally an export
Google are arguably the slowest people to update their apps. Authenticator has looked and felt like something from the 90’s for a long, long time.
This update has not only modernised the apps general look but added exporting, a long overdue feature.
Thanks guys, you’re slower than anything I’ve ever experienced in my life but when you finally act you do a good job.
Awful and Google does not care
I would give this zero stars if I could. I was hit by the bug with this app following the iOS15 upgrade. Lost access to accounts that I am struggling to recover and will be hit financially. Google don’t appear to be acknowledging this issue as I suspect they cannot recover the keys that have been lost. So even though someone from Google will read this review they would never respond to it. They are hoping it blows over. This is a complete failure in the Google QA procedures and as from a support perspective most of us would be understanding, to a degree, if they just admitted their failure and assisted where they can, if at all possible. I’ve lost trust in Google because of this and will reviewing private and business use of Google services and where I need to move to other providers that seem to have more robust QA procedures and actually seem to just care a little bit.
Great security with this extra tip
If your phone is stollen and the thief can access your phone, they have access to everything on your Authenticator unless you have set access to it via biometrics.
Add biometric pass to the Authenticator and you have pretty much the best general security around today.
App Privacy
The developer, Google LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Google LLC
- Size
- 27.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2014 Google Inc.
- Price
- Free