If you carry a Windows Phone, install the Microsoft Authenticator app, which uses the same standard to create authentication tokens that are identical to those from the Google app.

Google Authenticator is getting its first big update since September of 2017, and you’ll enjoy more than just a few cosmetic upgrades once the updated app rolls out to your Android (and ...

Authenticator apps avoid your mobile network, sending codes through its own secure channels to avoid them being compromised. These apps generate one-time six-digit codes that refresh every 30 seconds.

Here’s how you can get started with Google Authenticator, what’s recently changed about the app, and how to access your codes in-app.

Google Authenticator is a two-step verification software used to keep your Google account and its related apps and programs more secure.

Again, authenticator apps are largely similar in both form and function, but Proton Authenticator has a potential advantage in that it comes from a privacy-first company.

If you install v2 before uninstalling v1 and then run it, you'll be prompted with a dialog to migrate the tokens and then offered to uninstall the now outdated version.