enable phone sign in microsoft authenticator

Now complete the sign-in process and hit ‘ Register‘ to register this device to another tenant (yes another tenant as in my case it was already registered to two other tenants). Now this has been verified and checked, please fully close the Microsoft Authenticator App and start it again and select an account which hasn’t been enabled with Passwordless Phone Sign-in and hit ‘ Enable phone sign-in‘. Important here to know is that t he plan is to remove this requirement for general availability, until that time this setting needs to be enabled to use the public preview! Once you’ve made sure you configured your tenant correctly, let’s verify / prepare the settings on your mobile device to make use of multiple Passwordless Phone Sign-in accounts on a single device!įor that first of all it’s important you’ve the latest Authenticator App version (currently 6.6.0) installed and are running iOS 12.0 or later.Īt second it’s important to enable ‘ Usage Data‘ within the Microsoft Authenticator App to be shared with Microsoft. Now let’s have a look at the requirements and steps we need to take to get this working smoothly!įirst make sure you can make use of the Passwordless Phone Sign-in functionality in your tenant, therefore please follow my other blog post first to make sure all configuration items are in place. I promise I will post another blog once Android is there as well!

NOTE: If you’re an Android user, you have to be patient as this functionality is today only released for the Microsoft Authenticator App on iOS.

Well good news for all iOS users, the support for multiple Passwordless phone sign-in accounts on a single device went public preview about 2 weeks ago! Want to know how to enable this for you, please keep on reading! Previously by enabling Passwordless phone sign-in within the Authenticator App the functionality was limited to only one single account per device. This blog post is all about the Passwordless phone sign-in experience for multiple accounts on the same device.

Enable phone sign in microsoft authenticator