Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords

Microsoft volition soon nary longer fto you usage its Authenticator app to store oregon autofill passwords. Starting successful July, you won’t beryllium capable to autofill saved passwords utilizing Authenticator, and you’ll person to usage Microsoft Edge oregon different password absorption solution instead.

Microsoft besides plans connected deleting your saved outgo accusation successful Authenticator this July earlier erasing passwords successful August. Last month, Microsoft Authenticator stopped accepting caller passwords arsenic portion of plans to consolidate its password autofilling diagnostic wrong Edge.

Microsoft volition automatically sync saved passwords to your account, allowing you to entree them successful Edge. You tin acceptable Edge arsenic your device’s default autofill supplier by uncovering the enactment successful your device’s settings and selecting Edge alternatively of Authenticator. If you don’t privation to usage Edge, marque definite to export your passwords to different work by August.

Microsoft Authenticator launched arsenic a multifactor authentication solution successful 2016, and it added support for password retention successful 2020. Though Microsoft Authenticator is ending enactment for passwords, it volition proceed to enactment passkeys, the solution that lets you usage your device’s authentication method to motion into accounts, specified arsenic a PIN, fingerprint, oregon look scan.

You tin find much accusation astir however to export your passwords oregon marque Edge your default autofilling supplier from Microsoft’s website.