Microsoft Authenticator testing account backup and recovery on iOS

Microsoft is bringing a new backup and recovery feature to its Authenticator app for iOS. The company appear today that the characteristic, which will help you keep from getting locked out of accounts when switching devices, is now in beta testing and will be rolling out to everyone in the coming weeks (via Neowin).

The new setting will alive as a toggle nether the "Backup" section of the Settings menu. Once toggled on, your account credentials volition be encrypted with your personal Microsoft account and then the encrypted fill-in volition be stored with your iCloud account. From there, yous'll exist able to easily recover your account credentials on a new device by selecting "Begin recovery" in Authenticator and signing in with the same Microsoft and iCloud accounts.

Microsoft says that the account backup and recovery feature will be coming to the Android version of Authenticator too, but at that place's no timeline for its inflow as of notwithstanding. In the meantime, Microsoft Authenticator beta testers and iOS can try the feature out now. If you lot're not a beta tester, yous can sign upward to exist a role of the limited TestFlight plan. Otherwise, look the feature to gyre out for anybody at some betoken in the coming weeks.

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