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😭i tried back up on my new phone and it says "something went wrong"

It does not work in 2024 anymore. I have identical scenario as on video, i.e. old phone is Android, new phone is iPhone. Clicking begin recovery on clean install of MS Authenticator just results in a pop-up saying there is no backup in icloud account. It seems it does not even bother looking for backups on MS servers. Yes, backup feature is enabled on my old Android phone, and yes, I tried disabling and re-enabling cloud backup option. I specifically chose MS Auth. app to have cloud backup feature just in case and for the purpose of easy device migration, a few years ago when this feature was not widely available, and now it does not work. Good bye MS or rather GTFO, and I will re-set all 2FAs with a third party app that actually works.

reading - very overrated. of course i did not see the recovery on the screen and logged in instead. Thanks man!

It doesnt work with Microsoft Authenticator App Stored in iCloud. Only few keys are available. It is terrible..There must be a Microsoft mistake I guess.

Nothing described in this video works as presented.

I followed this, and all my MFA accounts came back, however EVERY account required action. What was the action, to re-scan the QR codes used to create he account (ie, re-create the account). I have never hated an application so bad. I did notice an export option, this resulted in the same issue, my "imported accounts" need to be verified by scanning the QR code provided by the company... So slowly 1-by-1 I am now re-creating all my authentication accounts, this has been the worst part to changing from a damaged cellular device, but luckily in this regard, I can access and use the damaged device, would hate to experience not having access to the defunct device...

Thank you, this was very good information.

The Microsoft is Hooli from the Silicon Valley show. Change my mind!

Thanks for the video. The app is a bit unpractical. I mean I bought a new phone a few weeks back and adding authenticators was one of my 1st move. I didn't know or pay attention to any mention to recover from a backup. In my mind you connect to your account and should there be such a backup feature it is all done for you. It syncs in the background. I jsut wanted to connect to GitHub and it asked for TOTP. I had the account on the old phone. I connect and added GitHub to the new phone. Easy peasy. But I have a dozen other sources available on the old phone I would need to add to the new... :/ On the old phone a message told me my backup is outdated so I did the necessary to have it updated. Now I'd simply love to have my new phone get the data back. Cloud backup is disabled so I enable it. But that would be too easy I guess. It is telling me there is a backup from another device. Do I want to crush the backup ? Of course no ! I want it the other way. But no option is provided. The doc says be sure to retrieve the backup before loging in. OK lets disconnect then... but there is no Sign out / disconnect option I could find... Great ! Seriously. This is messy. Why is it not also telling me. Hey there is this backup from another device. What do you want to do ? Crush the backup with date from this device ? Or crush the data on this device from the backup online ? That seems like common sense to me. Why isn't there a check at all to state that when you attempt to login in the app ?

i lost it completely smh.... they synced and i lost them forever. Now when i try to log in to any website i have to change password smh

my authenticator app is deleted by mistake. after that i reinstalled but when i add my microsoft account it shows add code from authenticator app which is i already deleted. can anyone help me to get again. is there any chance change my setting like receive code in my register mobile number or email. please help. thank you

MINE WONT CARRY OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What if don't have old device

Worked Well! Thanks a ton :)

If you can't access your old phone, so can't setup back-up, is it possible to use the app on a new phone?

Thanks a lot

very informative video thank you so much

You are a LIFESAVER! Who knew that you needed your old device to get access to the features on this app using a new one. MICROSOFT DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT GETTING OUT YOUR OLD DEVICE!

Damn thank you, you saved my life !! 🙏🏽❤

You did not help. I need to ADD an account to authenticate not create.

Super quick solution and if we beed to add 2FA in the future for these accounts just click on the tag and see all of them and chooses which one to activate! Thank you! 😊

If you screenshot a QR Code on your android device, you can then use Google Lens to read the QR code to get that text. This does away with needing a spare phone. There is no way I would upload all my 2FA authenticator information to any website. I think it is quicker to simply go to each website that you have 2FA enabled on, and grab the QR code or the TOTP secret key from there and add it directly from the Bitwarden app on the phone. Some sites may not show this so you may have to disable and reenable the 2FA to get a new code to scan. Obviously, this depends on how many sites you are using Google Authenticator for. For me, I thought this was quicker than setting up Python and the convertor utility and gave me piece of mind from a security perspective.

Does not work. It still requires to re authenticate all of my accounts... Totally useless restoration...

Thanks!! Worked perfectly

Thank you for great tutorial, you saved me lot :)

What do i do if i dont have a acces to my phone, it broke.

Thank you so much!

Latvian?

Thank you brother❤

Thank you sooo much !! - great explanation as well.

Thank you so much for this.👍

Brother I remove my account from that app but now when i want to login this app want approval but i remove earlier so how can i approve ???? Please help

If you have a user name & a password does bitdefender password manager auto-fill?

Thank you! You saved me.

Thanks!. Worked for what I was looking to do

Thannnnnk you so much! You saved my life!!

You are a saviour 🙌

THIS DUDE OUT HERE GIVING US HE PASSWORD 4 FREE-

Thanks

hey , thank you so much❤❤ for explainning how to extract secret key for google authenticator app. can you please tell me something about how i can extract secret key from OKTA Verify app

Can't figure this out...lost everything, this isn't working at all.

Useless. What i am seeing in my account is completely different to yours. Still at a loss.

This app is gay

The only reason I switched from Google Auth to Microsoft Auth is due to the back feature that was lacking in the old Google Auth. Now I completly lost access to my 2FA because of the same feature (apparently their backup will only restore on the same device). Never use the Microsoft Auth unless necessary.

Useless

Thanks so much. This should be built in to Google Authenticator. I can now keep the seeds in a secure backup in case I lose my phone. Little nervous about running an app, but, you said you examined the code, and so did I. I would not run an .exe file with all my secrets at stake. Just for safe measure, I disconnected from the LAN when I ran it to make sure there were no clandestine transmissions. From now on, I will record the seed for backup when I enroll a site. I learned so much about TOTP and security devices this weekend.

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Muchas gracia por tu ayuda!! Un detalle a tener en cuenta es que hay actualizaciones de la aplicación y ya no es necesario hacer la foto. La propia aplicación escanea el QR y extrae todos los datos.