Use Microsoft Authenticator for easy, secure sign-ins for all your online accounts using multi-factor authentication, passwordless, or password autofill. You also have additional account management options for your Microsoft personal, work or school accounts.
Getting started with multi-factor authentication
Multi factor authentication (MFA)provides a second layer of security. When enabled, during login after entering your password, you’ll be asked for an additional way to prove it’s really you. Either approve the notification sent to the Microsoft Authenticator, or enter the one-time password (OTP) generated by the app. The OTP codes have a 30 second timer counting down. This timer is so you never have to use the same time-based one-time password (TOTP) twice and you don’t have to remember the number. The OTP doesn’t require you to be connected to a network, and it won’t drain your battery. You can add multiple accounts to your app, including non-Microsoft accounts like Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, and more.
Getting started with passwordless
Use your phone, not your password, to log into your Microsoft account. Just enter your username, then approve the notification sent to your phone. Your fingerprint, face ID, or PIN will provide a second layer of security in this two-step verification process. After you’ve signed in with two factor authentication (2FA), you’ll have access to all your Microsoft products and services, such as Outlook, OneDrive, Office, and more.
Getting started with autofill
Microsoft Authenticator app can also autofill passwords for you. Sign-in on the Passwords tab inside the Authenticator app with your personal Microsoft account to start syncing passwords, including the passwords saved in Microsoft Edge. Make Microsoft Authenticator the default autofill provider and start autofilling passwords on apps and sites you visit on your mobile. Your passwords are protected with multi-factor authentication in the app. You will need to prove yourself with your fingerprint, face ID, or PIN to access and autofill passwords on your mobile. You can also import passwords from Google Chrome and other password managers.
Microsoft personal, work or school accounts
Sometimes your work or school might ask you to install the Microsoft Authenticator when accessing certain organization resources. You will need to register your device to your organization through the app and add your work or school account. Microsoft Authenticator supports cert-based authentication by issuing a certificate on your device. This will let your organization know that the sign-in request is coming from a trusted device and help you seamlessly and securely access additional Microsoft apps and services without needing to log into each.
Brutally outdated and common user missing features
KonstantinsS
For IT admins - probably a good thing. For regular users - no Apple Watch support, constant crashes, personal and non-personal accounts not normally speared when it comes to passwords. This app is on the market for years, but hardly developed by Microsoft. Seems like most of the Microsoft apps - pump and dump. I guess this app also will get removed or replaced eventually. Also if you are switching phones nothing gets transferred, if you have multiple work accounts you have to reconfigure all of them from scratch. Microsoft had years to make it work and simply don’t give a *****, they care only about money, and can’t even give a quality product like apple does
Very good but
arigeo79
I can approve the request with force touch from my locked screen without fingerprint in iPhone 8.It is very handy but should ask for a fingerprint after the action.That is a security risk.
Worst app ever
allthenicknamescan'tbetaken
This app has wasted hours of my life and simply cannot manage multiple accounts. It requests that I open authenticator and input a code….while I am in the app and using it. It has caused me no end of trouble at work and locked me out of my email and teams accounts repeatedly. It always requires a fix from an IT team who inevitably take days to respond. Possibly because of organisational security links, It affects other apps and even calls and messages when installed on my phone. I am actually considering not working for organisations who insist on using it. It’s really that bad.
Asinine and redundant app
henehree
I was FORCED to download this, given no other option, having signed in three times on my college institution email account (three times you can sign in as the maximum allowance before outlook FORCES you to download this app). I provided my mobile phone number as part of two factor authentication which should be ENOUGH. But to Microsoft? No, you must download a new app, accept new terms, and use it every time you sign in. Ridiculous. Breach of customer relations. Disgraceful app. Waste of time and resources.
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Version 6.8.46
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