Microsoft is taking a major step toward a passwordless future. Beginning August 1, the company will permanently remove all stored passwords from its Microsoft Authenticator app.

Microsoft Authenticator is an app that provides multi-factor authentication, ... (MFA), the Authenticator app sends a push notification to the user’s device to grant or deny access.

For instance, the location and application name notifications in Microsoft Authenticator's push notifications, which are designed to give end users additional clues about authentication prompts ...

The Microsoft Authenticator app relies on push notifications; you can also set up a classic Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) authenticator and generate six-digit codes you supply on request.

Let us see this in detail. 1] Get the app. To download and install the Microsoft Authenticator app on your Android phone, open the Google Play Store and search for “Microsoft Authenticator”.

Microsoft will drop the Authenticator app's autofill feature by July and push people to its Edge browser. "Microsoft is streamlining autofill so you can use saved passwords easily across devices.

Primarily used for signing into Microsoft accounts with two-step verification enabled, the Microsoft Authenticator for iOS gained an Apple Watch companion app in 2018.

Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t ...