alt Hacker News> Supposedly, using the QR code on the smartphone triggers an SMS sent from your phone to Google in order to verify your phone number.
Does anyone have a better source of information than this one forum comment from someone who thinks scanning a QR code is enough to get your phone to send a text message?
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noitpmeder • today at 1:07 PM
I think it's probably enough to get your phone to open your texting app with a pre populated number and message body, then all the user needs to do is hit send.
yawnr • today at 1:05 PM
It probably opens a prefilled text message and the user still has to hit send. That's the only API I know on iOS anyway.
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Regarding how easy simswap is in 2026, it's dangerously stupid from Google to rely on SMS