If they think I’m installing Edge on my phone they’ve lost their mind.
Isn’t Microsoft Authenticator just a password manager and TOTP app? You can replace it with Bitwarden and Aegis (or a dozen alternatives).
If you use MS Authenticator you can enable geofencing for SSO. If it’s enabled then no other TOTP apps will work.
I’ve worked places where they required specific TOTP apps. That’s the only reason I had MS Authenticator on my phone
You could keep it on your phone, but TOPT codes are just a shared secrets that you can store in multiple authenticators.
the hard part is being able to export them from some apps (looking at you, authy…)
Some workplaces disable the ability to enroll TOTP codes and forces the use of MS Authenticator.
Yep exactly. Luckily I’m not longer working at one, so I can uninstall it.
My old job force migrated everyone to Okta the week it got breached
They’re nuts! Why does it matter?!
IIRC the Microsoft TOTP has an (obviously) incompatible format that you can’t store in Bitwarden.
Bitwarden being the only acceptable application for me, I would ask for a work phone if I had to use the Microsoft thing.
It’s a fair question to ask why you were using MS Authenticator in the first place, but if you have to use it for a work thing I’m not isue if it will export to other TOTP alternatives or not for Microsoft account stuff. Does anybody know for sure?
Weird I wonder if this is happening on Android too.
I just checked the app on my Pixel 6, I don’t get the full-screen thing, but there’s a similar in-app notification.
Looks like iOS to me
It is. My phone has been warning me. It’s only password autofill that they’re removing (for now), not TOTP stuff.
Web browsers for password management is a mistake. You cannot change my mind. It’s one thing to say better then nothing and offer the option, it’s another to say this is the only way.
This is them closing their walled gardens. The goal is to trap those that don’t know better or ignorantly don’t care.
Stop using anything Microsoft related on any of your personal devices. It’s an American capitalism virus now.
Standardly Microsoft Authenticator I have only used for 2 factor codes for work accounts. I wonder what they plan to do with those.
They will amalgamate them into one big “Ai cross platform password management system” which is just optimized to suck up as much private data to train their fucking Ai as possible.
Lol Microsoft is not even close to a walled garden. This is just them removing the password manager feature that nobody used from their authenticator app.
I used it. And I used Edge. This is the most braindead change they could have made. Edge automatically synced passwords to Authenticator across mobile and PC. Losing the ability to autofill passwords outside of Edge makes it significantly less useful.
If anything, as someone who was in their garden, this change is unironically making me want to go find another garden to play in instead of stick closer to theirs. Why is Microsoft so hellebent on making people hate it’s software recently?
Microsoft is not even close to a walled garden
Were you in a coma for the past 40 years?
Not that guy but another: No. You? Because Microsoft is a lot of things but walled gardens is something out of Cupertino. Not Redmond.
You can call MS shitty and I would fully concur but a walled gardens it’s not.
You don’t need ad, Exchange/outlook, m365, entraid. They’re nice for most users but you can live without and use other services in their place on any MS platform.
Now, iOS… Have fun with that.
