Very very hard to move phones. Will lock you out of all accounts

Authy is sooooo much easier to use.

This app used to be easier to transfer to new devices and setup in 2012. Sometime since then and now (2/1/17), its become incredibly complicated to set up and use.

After app updates on my iPhone I had to re-setup some of my google accounts that required this Authenticator.

My apps obviously required me to use Authenticator. But then my Authenticator also required me to use my google accounts! A bit frustrating but workable, right? Just log into my google account sign in and security settings on my laptop to setup my Authenticator first, right?

WRONG.

Its stupidly difficult to navigate through the labyrinthine security settings pages in google to find the passcodes or the QR image that I need to setup Authenticator on my phone. I couldnt find it.

I even googled on how to find it and couldnt find the answers. This is multiple layers of Google fail.

So I just gave up. Switched off 2-factor sign in and deleted this useless app, much to my disappointment and security downsides.

Google really needs to simplify all the crazy complexity and cognitive bloat they are creating in their ecosystem of stuff. Their "material" UI design looks nice superficially but is in fact very poor UX - Its just all labyrinthine. Nothing is "obvious" and intuitive.

samrecord about Google Authenticator, v3.0.0