Google Authenticator App Reviews

Agree with all 1 star reviews. Why must you lose access to other apps when you purchase a new phone?! Wasting so much time!

Fix this or lose tons of customer support . This is horrendous

I dare you.

Straight up terrible, lost my gaijin war thunder account that i used to grind

If you get a new phone theres no way to transfer the codes. It wont even re-display the QR codes for you to scan with your new phone, not to mention some kind of backup for your codes. It kinda basically does the job, but its a little klunky anyway.

Why isnt there any sort of backup feature? You guys are an embarrassingly uninnovative bunch. Arent you like... the richest company in the world or something? How about some R&D funding? Clowns. No update since Feb2016? SMH!

Would be super easy to make a watch app for this. Would be A+

I was trying to get back into a very important email account that we lost the password to, and when I got it wrong it told me to use this app. The app was absolutely un helpful and did nothing for me. Would definitely not recommend.

The ONLY situations you should use this is for is ONLY for Googles services. Otherwise DO NO EVER USE this app. Why? Because if you ever lose your phone, do a hard reset, or just lose the app, ALL of your tokens will be gone F-O-R-E-V-E-R! Thats right. The app doesnt save the tokens that you set up for 3rd-Party emails, bank accounts, etc. You WILL BE SCREWED!

If you ever have to restore your iphone, forget about getting the backups for this app as it doesnt work.

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Used by other programs I run, I had to use this app. Before, it wasnt a problem. Now its *MANDATORY* to set up 2-step verification on your Google account before you can even use the app at all; which is both completely useless to me and, for most, stupidly hard to find. If I had something important on my Google account maybe Id do this myself. But I use a Google account as a connection account, it has nothing valuable on it. Immense waste of time, and the update forced me to re-setup every app that used Authenticators prior, which I had to first DISABLE to redo. In short, huge waste of time, ludicrously pointless fluff, thank you for making a perfectly streamlined app a pain in the rear.

I need to retrieving the authentications I had, back before I removed this app I have a few on there, since then Ive accidentally deleted the app. I thought I would be able to get my stuff back since it had the Cloud symbols when I went back to download it but NO. ALL GONE, with no way to retrieve now I cant access account? PLEASE HELP!

Dont trust this to keep your codes.

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No search, very basic app but does the job.

I also recommend getting a USB certified FIDO in addition to this. So you dont get locked out of your account.

If you have more that 6 or so codes it will start doubling them in the list, and the UI gets disabled somehow so you cant delete them without restarting the app. Really wish it used native UI instead of the Google stuff. Out of place and probably the source of the above problems.

Used this easy great app for years without issues... Until one day my phone accidently got drowned in water. Days later I got a new phone and my iCloud backup worked perfectly, all but the Authenticator app lost all my tokens. This.was a good app whos time has past. Use Googles new "Google Print" instead, which simply uses the iPhone finger print button, no codes to copy/paste or enter. Googles new solution is faster, easier and more secure.

Please add a widget option for this. It would make grabbing the code much easier. Thank you.