Microsoft Authenticator

Description

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.

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User Rating

4.71 out of 5

88,203 ratings in United Kingdom

5 star

76,455

4 star

5,699

3 star

1,702

2 star

550

1 star

3,797

Ratings History

Reviews

Waste of time

Logged me out my and now I can’t get in to it anymore

Worst app ever

Avoided using at all costs.

Broke

Logged me out of all of my uni accounts and then itself, demands to use the authentication app to login

Why not keep the watch app up to date?

Thus used to be excellent in conjunction with the watch app. However, my organisation has recently improved security by requiring a two digit number to be input in the authenticator. They could have updated the watch app to include a 0-9 entry but no. Very poor show, knocked it down to two stars. Update: had hoped there might be some change, but still haven’t fixed the watch integration

Still don’t know what this does. Received text with 6 number code and then this an absolute joke and waste of time

Very poor

App sending me in circles, unable to access me emails any longer, no reasonable support. Completely useless from my experience.

Total garbage

Requiring push notifications for this app is total rubbish. Go die in a fire Microsoft you intrusive bunch of morons

Not working.

Can’t log in even. Keeps saying the code is wrong when I know it’s right.

I can’t get into any of my emails with outlook

Please help , I can’t get into my college work on PowerPoint because I need everything to do with this Authenticator app, I can’t sign in because the Authenticator app is not letting me

Very bad app

Worst app keeps telling me to open my Authenticator app and enter numbers shown while I’m on the app

Store Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Sweden Productivity	2
Top Free	Norway Productivity	2
Top Free	Canada Productivity	2
Top Free	Switzerland Productivity	2
Top Free	Netherlands Productivity	3

Chart

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Authenticator + 2FA Authentication	26	2 weeks ago
The Authenticator‎ App Authenticate - 2FA, MFA, OTP	11	1 month ago
SafePass: Accounts Manager Safe Browser,2FA Auth,Password	0	6 months ago