Moving Authenticator to a new Phone

in help •  7 years ago 

So I got a new phone and need to move authenticator over to the new device.

I have a ton of accounts that I need to move, i.e. I have like 15 apps that are all using authenticator.

There is of course the manual way of doing it which means switching 2fa off and switching it on with the new device again.

First of this is not very safe, and secondly this is a lot of work. Is there not a way to move the entire thing over to the new phone?

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Thanks, exactly what I needed.

I am glad it worked out for you.

My phone got broken and i needed to do that too
You can use adb and extract the google authenticator .db file
https://dpron.com/3-ways-to-move-google-authenticator/

Stay safe!

Sir, you can read all the steps here

Interesting question, you may need access to the phone number that is linked to your account (for confirmation via SMS message) or the recovery code that you recorded when setting up the authenticator. Thank you @knircky and let us know what you did.

I hope someone provides a solution as I was wondering about the exact same thing!

Technology is the world's greatest weapon.So make sure that it will be a solution too.. @knircky

Hlw my dear sir @knircky nice" sharing & thanx you so much for shaing. have a nice day.

There are of course you can search Youtube. Maybe you can get the solution.

Congratulation, I can not help you with technical matters, but I can thank you for the support and quality posts.
I believe you will get the right answer. Have a nice and successful day

iPhone or Android? Is the normal iOS complete phone backup not working?

Nope. The backup is not working. I ave iOS/iPhone.

Should work I guess with the normal Icloud phone backup.. Maybe look to this
https://authy.com/features/backup/ (did not use it myself)

authy works perfectly. authenticator not so much

Too bad to hear.. I tried to help but didn't use it myself..
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There are of direction you may seek Youtube. perhaps you may get the solution

if you use iphone, it will handle iCloud..Iphone is life :))

I do not know an actual answer but mayboe you can find something online

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