If, for some reason, u already logged in, and didn't do recovery from first setup. Remove app, with deletion of all setting, and start all over again. Works!
I guess I have to do it this way as I installed the app on my new phone and didn't notice any restore button. Seems kind of weird there is no option to restore from cloud if you already have the app installed and didn't restore during the install process.
Iphone/ios user here. There was no backup under the settings. Here is how you have to do it. On the phone with all the original authenticator data (must be an ios -> ios transfer or android -> android) 0.) Make sure you're signed in on an account in the microsoft authenticator app 1.) Settings -> Backup -> Turn on iCloud Backup On the New Device 2.) On the new device install the microsoft authenticator app 3.) After the first few prompts, you will see a prompt with the option to restore from backup -> Select that option and sign in using the same account from the original device. 4.) The authenticator app will autopopulate with your codes. At first the codes on the new devices will differ but after some time the codes will sync up and be the same. The first batch of codes are probably just temporary and used as a placeholder until the codes sync up.
my phone broke due to some car accident(I'm Fine, thanks for asking 😊) it was oneplus"android" and I tried with my second mobile, iPhone "ios" it didn't work, until I crossed your video and saw this frame 00:10 then I tried it using Emulator "android studio" and thanks god its WORKED 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. liked and sub to your channel, SIR 🤝.
Great video, thank you. I tried to restore my Microsoft authenticator yesterday by using the restore from backup option on the new phone. It restored all my accounts except for all Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts because it said that "additional authentication is required" and "action required" which means that I will have to login into 20 Microsoft 365 accounts to rescan the QR codes. That really defeats the purpose of recovery.
Will Microsoft Authenticator on the new iPhone still ask for a Microsoft Authenticator verify from the old phone when logging in on the Microsoft account? What if I don’t have my old phone and just want to backup and restore from iCloud?
Last time I checked, you don't need your old phone as long as you have a backup saved. However, if you are trying to log in to your MS account, you will need the old phone to enter that code first. You can go to your MS account on a computer and rest your authentication settings. You will need to have a backup key for that (I think)
I had already installed it on my new device and went into the app trying to figure it out. Then, I came here searching for a video and found yours. After watching I uninstalled it and made sure to hit restore from backup but it still didn't restore the other two that I had on the authenticator. :(
How about when I backed it up before, then reformatted the same phone, and now I want to access it again, I tried to do it but all it says is "Too many requests."
Well done this worked. Microsoft is painful to deal with. Especially now that their support is coming from West Africa (low wages) and the call quality is really poor.
This worked for me with one slightly different step. Here’s what I did. I had everything on my iPhone. I was signed in with the same account on my iPad but it was lacking everything. So I deleted the app on my iPad. Reinstalled it. Selected the restore from back option. It had me verify via the authenticator on my iPhone (that was the additional step). After that everything on my iPhone is now on my iPad. So glad to have it on two devices now. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for this valuable share, It really saved my time in getting all of my accounts from my mum's phone to my phone. especially it helped me in signing with my TCS Code Vita account into Microsoft Authenticator which is only able to sign-in only through QR code. Please keep posting videos like this more informative.😇🥰😍
Thanks for this! i had a weird problem that when i logged in to the authenticator on my new phone and signed in to my microsoft account it only added the microsoft account itself and not the other accounts i had on the old phone like twitter. i think it's because i had not backed it up. so i backed it up on my old phone, deleted the authenticator app on my new phone and re-downloaded it and then i was able to choose recovery from backup and now all the accounts were added back on.
I cannot recover to my new phone, probably because at first, I manually logged into my MS account once, assuming that then the codes would be recovered. That was not the case, I had an empty slate with just the manually added MS account. I activated cloud backup, and once the data were backed up. Later I realised that I need to do the recovery procedure described here, but now it does not work anymore, even after deleting all app data. I can start recovery, the 2-digits code in the original app comes up and I can approve the recovery to the new phone, but in the end I get an error message, saying that the backup allegedly was not saved under that MS account and I should try another one, which is definitely a false statement. Maybe it looks under the device-specific cloud backup I had created and then deleted again before, not really accessing the backup from my old phone anymore. How can I manually transfer all data to the new phone?
After a while, the old authenticator app asked me to refresh my backup to the cloud, so I did. After that, I finally was able to restore them to the new device. Probably, the deleted backup from the new device under the same account meant that in the meantime there was no cloud backup at all. Very strange. Guys, be careful to really start from scratch with cloud restore and do NOT manually add any identical accounts and backup them first.
@@Computerlegacy You are right. Every single one of them sucks. They want to design their apps in the most painful way possible in the name of 'security'.
I somoehow added my microsoft account to Authenticator on the new iphone and now cannot import from the old iphone so i don't have the "recover accounts" button 😢
Have you backed up the new codes to the cloud? If not, then reset all authentication codes. Then delete this app and install it again. Then you'll find the option. If you have backed up the new app, there is no way to recover the old one.
Help me please... I was recently logged out of my work email on my corporate account since I got a new phone. Try logging in again and an authenticator is required. However, when I got a new phone, I also had to set up my authenticator. When trying to add my work account to the authenticator it didn't work as to log back into the authenticator I need to use the authenticator to give me a verification code. This has led to me being locked out of my work email and stuck in an authenticator loop. I need the authenticator code to log in, but I need to log in to view the authenticator code.
I understand. Many people have faced this issue, and the only way is to email your company's IT department or people who manage accounts and log in and ask them to reset your account.
If you had the cloud backup enabled, you are in luck. If not, then nothing can be done. You will need to reset the Authenticator for each website. Some allow you to do that through your phone, while with others, you will need to contact support.
Good video. I already had the Microsoft Authenticator app installed on my new phone, and I couldn't find the option to restore from the backup of my other phone. I uninstalled the app on the new phone, reinstalled and went through the restore process as you outlined, and it's all working now. Thanks
I lost my apple phone with authenticator installed in it, now I want to do the authentication from an android phone, when I am trying to setup it , its the push notification going to the other phone, how to resolve that, can you pls help
Hey I need to know how to transfer my work or school authenticator account from my android phone to iPhone. I follow the steps of the above video and I transfer my personal account but I couldn't transfer my school account.
hey how do you to transfer Authenticator account from IOS to android? Im getting an error message saying that there is nothing stored with my email address even though it says it has been backed up?
You can't do that. That's because your codes from your iPhone are saved on the iCloud, and the codes from Android devices are saved on the Microsoft servers. So, there is no way to recover iPhone codes to an Android and vice versa.
Hey bro i have troubling to get my Salesforce old accounts due to dead phone. in my new phone i haven't backup or any type of recovery so what i need to do ?😢
If you don't have access to the account, try putting one of the recovery codes? When you create 2FA, websites show recovery codes in case you don't have the Authenticator app. If you have the recovery codes, you can contact their customer support to remove the 2FA.
Hlo.. I have installed the authenticator on my father's phone, so i want to transfer the authenticator to my phone cz of some reason.. So do i have to install the authenticator on my phone, and then simply add the code on my fathers phone for verification... So do i have to enable the cloud backup option or else i will only install the authenticator on my phone and then simple add the Microsoft account without doing any backup
First, you need to have the same Microsoft account on both devices. First, install and add accounts to the first device. Then, enable the cloud backup. Then, on the second device, sign in. Follow the video as it does the same step by step.
It doesn't have the feature of syncing the ACCOUNTS. Only the passwords were synced. My problem: My previous phone was POCO X3 GT, the Authenticator that was there had all my accounts. Now, I have a new phone, POCO F6 PRO, and I tried to reinstall Authenticator on the new phone and logged in the account that was on my previous phone. It synced the passwords but not the accounts that were on the previous phone where I can see the authentication codes. How do I transfer my accounts from my old phone to this one on my new phone? I don't want to fix it manually or start binding accounts from the start.
I didn’t make backup and my got reset somehow now everything got removed verified ids and everything is there anyway to get them back because I have saved website login security code and key and without that i can’t login pls help
This doesn't work anymore, they made it extremely hard to transfer now, i used backup and it still send the code to my old phone. Imagine you broke your own phone. You are screw.
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If, for some reason, u already logged in, and didn't do recovery from first setup. Remove app, with deletion of all setting, and start all over again. Works!
Thank you. I hope this helps other viewers.
So, if I get a new device, I need to "restore from backup", not "sign in to Microsoft account", right?
I guess I have to do it this way as I installed the app on my new phone and didn't notice any restore button. Seems kind of weird there is no option to restore from cloud if you already have the app installed and didn't restore during the install process.
Great! You only missed the point where after backup all my credentials say "Actions required" which means you can't use any of your accounts at all.
In this case, you can try Google Authenticator or Authy.
What you have mentioned in "URL" in Actions Required in "Type code manually" please tell me this...
@@mks-mobileWhat you have mentioned in "URL" in Actions Required in "Type code manually" please tell me this
@user-pj3fk1tt3m what is the solution for action required
@@mks-mobile2:21 2:25
Iphone/ios user here. There was no backup under the settings. Here is how you have to do it.
On the phone with all the original authenticator data (must be an ios -> ios transfer or android -> android)
0.) Make sure you're signed in on an account in the microsoft authenticator app
1.) Settings -> Backup -> Turn on iCloud Backup
On the New Device
2.) On the new device install the microsoft authenticator app
3.) After the first few prompts, you will see a prompt with the option to restore from backup
-> Select that option and sign in using the same account from the original device.
4.) The authenticator app will autopopulate with your codes. At first the codes on the new devices will differ but after some time the codes will sync up and be the same. The first batch of codes are probably just temporary and used as a placeholder until the codes sync up.
my phone broke due to some car accident(I'm Fine, thanks for asking 😊) it was oneplus"android" and I tried with my second mobile, iPhone "ios" it didn't work, until I crossed your video and saw this frame 00:10 then I tried it using Emulator "android studio" and thanks god its WORKED 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
liked and sub to your channel, SIR 🤝.
Can you elaborate on what you did?
Thank you. Ended up uninstalling the app on my new iphone. Then making sure cloud was active on old. And then followed your steps. All good here
Great video, thank you. I tried to restore my Microsoft authenticator yesterday by using the restore from backup option on the new phone. It restored all my accounts except for all Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts because it said that "additional authentication is required" and "action required" which means that I will have to login into 20 Microsoft 365 accounts to rescan the QR codes. That really defeats the purpose of recovery.
I think the purpose of the MS Authenticator backup feature is to restore other accounts (not Microsoft).
Thank you so much. This helped me a lot, really needed it for work
Also the passwords will be sync? Or only the 2 verification accounts?
subscribed. after 10 videos something useful.
Thank you very much, I have used your instructions and it has helped me😊
Can we use simultaneously two accounts backup one and the old one together?
Thanks! Microsoft always makes these types of thing unintuitive - so it is great to have a real example!
Glad it was helpful!
Will Microsoft Authenticator on the new iPhone still ask for a Microsoft Authenticator verify from the old phone when logging in on the Microsoft account? What if I don’t have my old phone and just want to backup and restore from iCloud?
Last time I checked, you don't need your old phone as long as you have a backup saved. However, if you are trying to log in to your MS account, you will need the old phone to enter that code first. You can go to your MS account on a computer and rest your authentication settings. You will need to have a backup key for that (I think)
OMG I don't know who you are but I love you. I'm not bad in IT but I wasted 3h lookling how to do it. This manual worked, thank you brother!
How to do the transfer from Android to iphone
Read @HadiHammad's comment down below.
You cannot
00:10 listen again
Thanks you soooo much!!! I don’t think you understand how helpful this was to me
And I don't think you understand how comments like this make my day ☺
Vielen Dank für die schöne und einfache Erklärung, hat super geklappt auf dem neuen Xiaomi.
I had already installed it on my new device and went into the app trying to figure it out. Then, I came here searching for a video and found yours. After watching I uninstalled it and made sure to hit restore from backup but it still didn't restore the other two that I had on the authenticator. :(
Straight to the point. Thank you!
No worries
Great how-to video. This worked for me. No issues...thanks!
You're welcome!
This video was helpful. Thanks for posting it!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! thanks a lot! Microsoft didn't make it easy to navigate and transfer but you nailed to explain everything! Appreciate a lot!
All of the accounts moved over require a QR code. What's the point of this if you still need qr codes
The point is just to move your account from one phone to another. Let's say you lost your phone or are switching to a different phone.
People with Indian accents will either help you or scam you there is no in between. Thank you good sir for helping me.
Thank you! This worked like a champ!!!
Glad it helped!
How about when I backed it up before, then reformatted the same phone, and now I want to access it again, I tried to do it but all it says is "Too many requests."
Thanks for the detailed video!
After restore, I am asked to scan QR code and enter code manually. What code is to be entered here?
Taking back up is not recommended if you are working in Organization, you must contact their support admin
Well done this worked. Microsoft is painful to deal with. Especially now that their support is coming from West Africa (low wages) and the call quality is really poor.
Thanks for your feedback
This worked for me with one slightly different step. Here’s what I did.
I had everything on my iPhone. I was signed in with the same account on my iPad but it was lacking everything. So I deleted the app on my iPad. Reinstalled it. Selected the restore from back option. It had me verify via the authenticator on my iPhone (that was the additional step). After that everything on my iPhone is now on my iPad.
So glad to have it on two devices now. Thanks for the video.
Depending on the settings and other factor this step may be required. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this valuable share, It really saved my time in getting all of my accounts from my mum's phone to my phone. especially it helped me in signing with my TCS Code Vita account into Microsoft Authenticator which is only able to sign-in only through QR code. Please keep posting videos like this more informative.😇🥰😍
Brilliant tutorial. Easy to follow and completely accurate. Thank You 👋
Good video!! it helped me a lot. thanks
Thanks for helping nice explanation 😊
Happy to help!
You saved my time..Thx for your help
Not a problem. Always happy to help
Thanks alot mate, very useful
Thanks for this! i had a weird problem that when i logged in to the authenticator on my new phone and signed in to my microsoft account it only added the microsoft account itself and not the other accounts i had on the old phone like twitter. i think it's because i had not backed it up. so i backed it up on my old phone, deleted the authenticator app on my new phone and re-downloaded it and then i was able to choose recovery from backup and now all the accounts were added back on.
Great. Thank you for commenting. I'm glad that my video helped you.
Me fue de gran ayuda tu respuesta, hermano logré pasar las cuentas de verificación a mi nuevo teléfono, lo amo!!! Gracias!!!!!
Android to Iphone "You must do that manually" well where's that video?
what will happen with the old app? will it still work and allow to login? or transfer means the old app will be blocked?
Yes the old app will work. The new accounts won't be synced, though.
I cannot recover to my new phone, probably because at first, I manually logged into my MS account once, assuming that then the codes would be recovered. That was not the case, I had an empty slate with just the manually added MS account. I activated cloud backup, and once the data were backed up. Later I realised that I need to do the recovery procedure described here, but now it does not work anymore, even after deleting all app data. I can start recovery, the 2-digits code in the original app comes up and I can approve the recovery to the new phone, but in the end I get an error message, saying that the backup allegedly was not saved under that MS account and I should try another one, which is definitely a false statement. Maybe it looks under the device-specific cloud backup I had created and then deleted again before, not really accessing the backup from my old phone anymore. How can I manually transfer all data to the new phone?
After a while, the old authenticator app asked me to refresh my backup to the cloud, so I did. After that, I finally was able to restore them to the new device. Probably, the deleted backup from the new device under the same account meant that in the meantime there was no cloud backup at all. Very strange. Guys, be careful to really start from scratch with cloud restore and do NOT manually add any identical accounts and backup them first.
@@kriegaexAll theses companies sucks
@@kriegaexI’m having this same issue.
@@Computerlegacy You are right. Every single one of them sucks. They want to design their apps in the most painful way possible in the name of 'security'.
Thank you. I missed the backup button at the bottom and I just logged in.
Glad I could help
Thanks, brother, really helpful
I somoehow added my microsoft account to Authenticator on the new iphone and now cannot import from the old iphone so i don't have the "recover accounts" button 😢
Have you backed up the new codes to the cloud? If not, then reset all authentication codes. Then delete this app and install it again. Then you'll find the option. If you have backed up the new app, there is no way to recover the old one.
How do i restore if I don't have my old phone anymore with me? where do i get the notification? 😢😢😢
Was the cloud backup enabled in that device?
@@mks-mobile yes it was.
Help me please...
I was recently logged out of my work email on my corporate account since I got a new phone. Try logging in again and an authenticator is required.
However, when I got a new phone, I also had to set up my authenticator. When trying to add my work account to the authenticator it didn't work as to log back into the authenticator I need to use the authenticator to give me a verification code. This has led to me being locked out of my work email and stuck in an authenticator loop. I need the authenticator code to log in, but I need to log in to view the authenticator code.
I understand. Many people have faced this issue, and the only way is to email your company's IT department or people who manage accounts and log in and ask them to reset your account.
I’m everything on this video but still not seeing my accounts. Not sure what am I doing wrong. Any advice. I have an I phone. Thanks
Was your iCloud backup on in the previous app?
@@mks-mobile thank you for asking. But fortunately after several attempts I was able to import my IDs Great tutorial video.
@@angelherrera5603 thank you. I'm glad it worked.
What to do if your older phone is not working ??? How to set up all the older accounts in the new phone ???
If you had the cloud backup enabled, you are in luck. If not, then nothing can be done. You will need to reset the Authenticator for each website. Some allow you to do that through your phone, while with others, you will need to contact support.
Yoo! Thank you so much!
No worries
Thanks , really saved my day .
All good. Take care
No worries
Good video.
I already had the Microsoft Authenticator app installed on my new phone, and I couldn't find the option to restore from the backup of my other phone.
I uninstalled the app on the new phone, reinstalled and went through the restore process as you outlined, and it's all working now. Thanks
I lost my apple phone with authenticator installed in it, now I want to do the authentication from an android phone, when I am trying to setup it , its the push notification going to the other phone, how to resolve that, can you pls help
Well, in that case, you will need to use a recovery method. Do you see an option such as "Get a code on your phone"?
Hey I need to know how to transfer my work or school authenticator account from my android phone to iPhone. I follow the steps of the above video and I transfer my personal account but I couldn't transfer my school account.
MS Authenticator supports Android to Android and iPhone to iPhone transfer. You need to transfer those accounts manually. There is no other way.
hey how do you to transfer Authenticator account from IOS to android? Im getting an error message saying that there is nothing stored with my email address even though it says it has been backed up?
You can't do that. That's because your codes from your iPhone are saved on the iCloud, and the codes from Android devices are saved on the Microsoft servers. So, there is no way to recover iPhone codes to an Android and vice versa.
thanks @@mks-mobile
Worked great thanks!
Excellent. Thank you.
Hey bro i have troubling to get my Salesforce old accounts due to dead phone. in my new phone i haven't backup or any type of recovery so what i need to do ?😢
If you don't have access to the account, try putting one of the recovery codes? When you create 2FA, websites show recovery codes in case you don't have the Authenticator app. If you have the recovery codes, you can contact their customer support to remove the 2FA.
Hlo.. I have installed the authenticator on my father's phone, so i want to transfer the authenticator to my phone cz of some reason.. So do i have to install the authenticator on my phone, and then simply add the code on my fathers phone for verification... So do i have to enable the cloud backup option or else i will only install the authenticator on my phone and then simple add the Microsoft account without doing any backup
First, you need to have the same Microsoft account on both devices. First, install and add accounts to the first device. Then, enable the cloud backup. Then, on the second device, sign in. Follow the video as it does the same step by step.
Well done. Thanks
No worries
Good Video. It helps me.
Glad it helped
It doesn't have the feature of syncing the ACCOUNTS. Only the passwords were synced.
My problem: My previous phone was POCO X3 GT, the Authenticator that was there had all my accounts. Now, I have a new phone, POCO F6 PRO, and I tried to reinstall Authenticator on the new phone and logged in the account that was on my previous phone. It synced the passwords but not the accounts that were on the previous phone where I can see the authentication codes. How do I transfer my accounts from my old phone to this one on my new phone? I don't want to fix it manually or start binding accounts from the start.
It also syncs the accounts. The video covers the step by step process.
It didn't work for me. It only recovered the first microsoft account but not the other ones related. Im on Android :(
Did you click the recovery option on the new device? I think you missed some steps. Was/is the cloud backed enabled on your previous device?
You are great, thanks!
Bro my iCloud is different form my old phone and new one what should i do now??
To recover your old account, you must have the same iCloud. If want to set up MS Auth, you can use your new iCloud.
any way possible to still recover your account, without having the old phone, but all backup enabled?
did you find it im fucked with my school account rn
@@maximeclaveau9511 same here bro
I didn’t make backup and my got reset somehow now everything got removed verified ids and everything is there anyway to get them back because I have saved website login security code and key and without that i can’t login pls help
You need the backup codes. Do you have those? Otherwise, contact the support.
What if you don’t have access to the old phone anymore?
Then nothing can be done. You'll need the backup codes or contact the support of each company.
It didn't work
How can i add my Samsung pass , & Gmail accounts 2
Samsung Pass can't be added. I think you can add Gmail in the account settings.
Hello does it recovers all our addrd 2fa verification apps also brother?
Yes, but the accounts must be backed up
This doesn't work anymore, they made it extremely hard to transfer now, i used backup and it still send the code to my old phone. Imagine you broke your own phone. You are screw.
Mate you safed my life!
No worries
I wish someone would do a video on how to export your 2FA from MSA to another 2FA app!
I can, but the only way is by manual means. You will need to transfer accounts one by one.
How to remove account from the previous phone then?
Manually remove each account. Or delete the app data. Or uninstall the app.
Thank You Man!
What if it won’t let you back it up because it’s a work/business account
You will need to add a personal MS account.
@@mks-mobilenope doesn’t work on work business phone even though you have personal account added
Thanks very much!
No worries
can you not do this offline (not on the cloud backup)?
No, there is no way to do that, unfortunately.
fecking legend, thanks mate !
Happy to help
I need android to ios. Anyway of doing it?
No, that's not possible. You'll need to do it manually.
I forgot to backup, now I phone is new
If you don't have your old phone, you can't bring the old accounts back.
can you do this from Android to iPhone?
iPhone to iPhone and Android to Android only.
This same to just make a copy on another device? I just want to make a copy from iPhone to iPad. So both work. In case one device fails one day.
MS Authenticator can't do that. After syncing two devices, all future codes won't sync. Google Authenticator & Authy have this option, though.
Can you help how to transfer Authenticator account from IOS to android
That's not possible. You will need to transfer accounts individually.
I lost my Android which had the authenticator setup, how do I access it on new phone?
You can't
hey, are you able to access it on a new phone? if yes, then please tell me how
Are u able to access it ?? If yes then pls tell
Was the backup enabled on that phone? If not then there is no way to bring the same accounts back.
How about if you forgot to backup ?
You can't recover your accounts
No way to do it without a personal account. This is a violation of privacy and you're a fool if you do this.
thank you so much !
Thank you for this!
Not a problem
thank you, a lifesaver
Don't mention it
0:20 "for android to iphone and vice versa, you must do that manually" 😳 so.... Where's that video? 😅
Unless that's LITERALLY go into each account with 2FA, disable 2FA on the old phone and re-enable it all via the app on the new phone? 😳
Yes, that is what I meant. That's the manual way.
Thank you so much!
No worries!
thx man
What if I lost my phone?
Please help to get it back
Did you have the cloud backup enabled on that phone? The option is in the MS Authenticator settings.
Thank you 🙏, sir.
So nice of you
Android ios I can’t??
Big THX !!!
Can we do it for Android to iphone
From an iPhone to Android, No. From Android to Android, Yes.
You safe my life ❤️
Thank you sir
So nice of you