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June 4, 2019
Question

Remove phone from two factor authentication and only have authentication app

  • June 4, 2019
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Having the phone number as a fallback really kills the added security that an authentication app offers. I would like to remove my phone number as a backup, and instead have one time codes if I need them. Is there any way to do this? even if I don't have a backup I would rather re-create my account then have the phone number as a secondary 2FA option.

2 replies

DoninGA
Level 15
Level 15
June 4, 2019

Click on My Account at the top of the program screen.  Click on Account Settings.  Click on Security.  Make any changes needed in the Security section.

June 4, 2019
This does not help. The only option is to remove 2FA altogether and I do not want to do that. I would like to remove only my phone as an option, and leave the authentication app in place.
Level 2
March 13, 2022

This is hilariously bad. Intuit is obviously just requiring phone numbers so they can scrape information from people instead of giving them actual TOTP or Yubikey / Google Titan based MFA.

Cool way to ruin your MFA Intuit! Fix this dumbass garbage!

Level 6
April 16, 2023

The OP is correct.

 

There SHOULD be a way of having the option to ONLY use an Authenticator app for 2FA.

 

SMS 2FA is outdated and NOT secure.

bluedeb
Alumni - Champ
Alumni - Champ
April 17, 2023

@Pip_12_mn  You are posting on a old post that has already been answered.  No need for that.