alt Hacker News> you have to download an app to do it, it's not just a capability that a phone has by default
Luckily this is starting to change. Apple's Passwords app does TOTP out of the box.
Though I am mystified why Google Authenticator doesn't come pre-installed in Android.
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aequitas • yesterday at 4:46 PM
Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of MFA in that you now have both factors within the same application?
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GuinansEyebrows • yesterday at 4:27 PM
TIL! Thanks, I had no idea Passwords did this until now.
For the longest time Authenticator was almost abandoned by Google, so it's not surprising the team responsible for the bundled Android apps swerved it.
It didn't need bells and whistles and constant security updates, but it took 13 years for it to get cloud-sync support so you could backup your codes.