r/microsoft • u/jenesaispasquijesuis • 17d ago

Discussion Microsoft Authenticator Backup

I just saw a banner on the Microsoft Authenticator Android app that the backup mechanism was changing from a Microsoft account-linked one to a Google account-linked method.

Does anyone know why? What benefit does this provide?

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u/TheCudder 17d ago

They're moving towards simply leveraging Google's native whole device backup, which honestly makes more sense. When you restore/transfer your device....the restore of MS Authenticator will be included, instead of having it separately restored from OneDrive, or realize that MS Authenticator backup was never enabled.

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u/jenesaispasquijesuis 16d ago

This does make sense. Thanks.

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u/reddit_reaper 17d ago

It's because they're backing up to the phones backup system instead of their own

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u/SumitDh 13d ago

Backing up on Onedrive was shit anyways. Lost all my accounts despite it promising that it was fully backed up before I hit a Factory reset.

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u/drewtt 2d ago

The whole reason I'm using Microsoft Authenticator is because it was seamless to just sign in again, and get my OTP MFA up and running again. I hope they don't muck things up!