Google Authenticator 4+
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- Free
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Description
Google Authenticator adds an extra layer of security to your online accounts by adding a second step of verification when you sign in. This means that in addition to your password, you'll also need to enter a code that is generated by the Google Authenticator app on your phone.
The verification code can be generated by the Google Authenticator app on your phone, even if you don't have a network or mobile connection.
• Sync your Authenticator codes to your Google Account and across your devices. This way, you can always access them even if you lose your phone.
• Set up your Authenticator accounts automatically with a QR code. This is quick and easy, and it helps to ensure that your codes are set up correctly.
• Support for multiple accounts. You can use the authenticator app to manage multiple accounts, so you don't have to switch between apps every time you need to sign in.
• Support for time-based and counter-based code generation. You can choose the type of code generation that best suits your needs.
• Transfer accounts between devices with a QR code. This is a convenient way to move your accounts to a new device.
To use Google Authenticator with Google, you need to enable 2-Step Verification on your Google Account. To get started, visit http://www.google.com/2step
What’s New
Version 4.2.1
• Bug fixes and improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Perfect now that account sync has been added
Nice and simple authenticator app. Previously, it wasn’t my favourite as it only saved locally and if your device was lost/broken/stolen or whatever, you’d lose access to your accounts and it would be a headache to regain access. Now that the data is all encrypted and synced to your Google account, you can access the 2FA tokens from any device.
Unfortunately, now that the app is useful and well-liked, it’s only a matter of time until Google announces it’s being shutdown.
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.
I NEED HELP
I recently changed phones from a Samsung to an iPhone 15 but cannot remember my password for gmail and Hotmail. Either that or gmail and Hotmail are saying they are wrong. When trying to set up my authentication app it asks to open the google authentication app to authenticate it. HOW CAN I WHEN I CANNOT LOG IN. No one available to help unless you live in USA. This is one of the worst experiences ever.
Please can someone help as it’s driving me crazy. Supposed to be enjoyable experience but when you get to the forgotten password. Enter the phone number then it says Authorise or go to authentication app when that’s exactly what I am trying to do. Then it says sorry unsuccessfully you need to log in using your account use your authentication app and use a registered network it’s most unhelpful. I need this app for work too.
App Privacy
The developer, Google, 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:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content
- 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:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Google LLC
- Size
- 38.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 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