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Setting up authentication on a second phone
I have setup 2-factor authentication for 1 Password in Microsoft Authenticator on my iPhone. It works OK. I now want to setup 2-factor authentication in Microsoft Authenticator on my wife’s iPhone. 1Password allows a second authenticator to be setup but only using a physical key like Yubikey. I find this unacceptably inconvenient on a mobile phone. Microsoft Authenticator lets me backup Authenticator data to my iCloud account. I ca then transfer/restore that data to another phone. However, my wife’s phone has a different iCloud account, so the Authenticator backup data is not available on her phone. I tried to login in to my iCloud account on my wife’s phone, thinking that maybe I could then do an Authenticator Restore but I was unable to login. Password and username are correct. I now have no idea how to transfer the Microsoft Authenticator data on my phone, to my wife’s phone. This now a real problem for us. Appreciate some advice.