How to Backup Google Authenticator 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) Passcodes

Learn how you can backup the Google Authenticator 2 factor authentication passcodes.

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[netishix]

This is not a backup. This video shows how to transfer an account when you do have your phone with an instance of Google Authenticator. What if I lose my phone with that instance? The idea is to create a backup for that case

[HDvb]

What about if you don't have a second phone? I want to make a backup before I do a factory reset on the one phone that I have.

[deuceb]

Thanks man...feel much better now having it backed up on a 2nd device.

[DeyaniraGarciaZea]

Important info. Can you use an iPad instead to back up GA from your phone? Thank you.

[rizwanajmal]

if i transfer accounts from 1 google authenticator to another and after successful transfer can i del google authenticator app from first mobile?

Ok the problem is if you don't have another phone....

[cabrex]

Nice gimmick, wanted to see if anyone else tried it. Thanks for proving it right!

[-mandanaogaon]

If screenshot/capture qr code another phone then reset my phone and scan capture image back my old backup account?

[mwhomer]

Thank you! Exactly what I needed step by step

[dilshadshaikh]

If i have created 3 different account of my family members for 2fa code in Google authincator and through oversight i have deleted accounts of family members. How can I recover this account

[dilshadshaikh]

Ok sir nice but if I have to delete more than one account through by mistake then how could I recycle my accounts

[Databyter]

Doesn't a transfer of an authenticator account from one device to another eliminate access from the old device. My understanding is that just like Highlander, there can only be one. I was looking for a REAL way to backup codes, in case you have to replicate the one working account. I have a feeling, perhaps wrong, that people attempting to use this method will actually be deleting the old account. Lets see the video when you try to reboot the original app after transfering it to another device. Does it still have accouhts on it? Do they show the same numbers? Otherwise I suspect FUD.

[jhaa]

I lost my phone, how can I recover all the code adding with various accounts??

[discodisco]

Hi,
Authenticator in new phone. The code show up on new phone does it work when you try to log in Youtube to verified?

[cryptoslacker-]

Thanks, great information and well presented 😊

[gauravpruthi]

Both phones are now showing different codes.Will both of them work?

[flspacebear]

OK and if you only have the new phone and the old one is not working?

[bran_nn]

Okay but what if you restored your iPhone and now all my codes are gone, what do I do ?

[alexmarlin]

I have a key I don't have QR code for accounts where to add the key?

[IamKonstantin]

can you just backup the QR code and use it months later? instead of importing right away to another device?