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9AmberMoog
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3 years ago

2FA - is it important to keep the QR code?

If I use 2FA - say Google Authenticator or Authy. Is it important to keep the QR code so that, say a phone is lost, one can get the 2FA codes again for the new phone and resign into 1Password. I'm a...
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1P_Tommy
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3 years ago

9AmberMoog

I do keep my QR codes for exactly the same reasons. I store mine in 1Password. It's not that much of a concern (to me) nowadays with 1Password supporting TOTP. As someone who lost an account due to this way back when I felt it is a very easy thing to continue doing. I would recommend including you 1Password TOTP code with your 🚒 Emergency Kit for safe keeping.

Also, you indicated you are on 8.9.14. Please update to 8.9.15 when possible there was an issue with 8.9.14 where it caused some folks trouble accessing 1Password in the browser. Luckily Safari was not one of those affected. Which you also indicated you use.