I am required to login to my Microsoft account but my authenticator produces 8 digits instead of six. There is also no option to get the verification code through my mobile.
Any solutions??
It's urgent.
I am required to login to my Microsoft account but my authenticator produces 8 digits instead of six. There is also no option to get the verification code through my mobile.
Any solutions??
It's urgent.
I have the same. iphone 12 and all it offers me are 8 digits and my client needs 6! It keeps saying sending a notification to my app - but never does so
I have the same. iphone 12 and all it offers me are 8 digits and my client needs 6! It keeps saying sending a notification to my app - but never does so
This is ridiculous year has passed and there is still no fix tot his situation. I bet if it affected your stock in anyway you all would fix it immediately, because of this issue I am losing out on thousands of dollars a day, i have called Microsoft many times and your IT experts are as useless as the app. Is there anyway i can delete the authenticator app and not have to use it for any of my logging in, at this point I would rather my stuff be unsafe than to deal with your unresponsiveness and your IT peoples lack of knowledge about their own software.
Hi, do you still require assistance? If not, please mark the answer as verified.
Thank you,
James
Hi James, the above writer may not but I do. Please assist ASAP as very urgent.
Yes I still need assistance I have called Microsoft many times and the IT experts are absolutely useless instead of trying assist my problem they continue to tell me that they don’t understand my issue I can’t say it any more clearly. Please help I am begging I shouldn’t have to do this
REQUIRE ASSISTANCE!! HOW TO DODGE 8 TO 6 DIGIT CODE, IM AN IPHONE USER TOO
I have the IPhone 12 Pro Max and I also am experiencing the same issue.
I need 6 digits to verify with Coinbase.
Please help.
Hello @good-3732, thank you for reaching out and choosing the Microsoft Q&A platform. I believe you are seeing the 8-digit code on your Authenticator App because the Passwordless signing is enabled for your Microsoft account (personal Microsoft account). You can identify the same by looking for a key symbol listed on the top of your account in the Authenticator App profile.
I would suggest you to take a look at the steps mentioned here and see if this helps: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c04a9e6c-9bd0-43b2-80f9-2399242b3f92/microsoft-authenticator-app-gives-8-digit-code-instead-of-required-6-for-azure?forum=ApplicationInsights#:~:text=You%20should%20have%20setup%20a,provide%20you%208%20digit%20codes.&text=Two%20step%20verification%20provides%206%20digit%20codes.
Do let us know your if the above steps helped, and if it didn't do update us on that too so that we can look into this further. Also, please do not forget to accept the response as an Answer; if the above response helped in answering your query.
Hello! Since I updated to an iPhone 12 Pro recently. I noticed that now my Microsoft authenticator app gives me an 8-digit code and before I was using a 6-digit code for one of my apps, and now I can not get into that app. I tried turning off the 2-factor authentication option in my Microsoft account like the article you linked said to do, but that did not help. PLEASE tell me how to go back to a 6-digit code option.
Thanks!
Nicole
Same exact situation as Nicole. I'm totally stuck on this issue. Have you had any luck since? Does anyone know what's going on? @soumi-MSFT any advice?
As soon as I upgraded my phone, most apps stopped working with Authenticator because its generating 8 numbers and they are asking for 6.
Hi, I have exactly the same problem and tried your fix. Thanks, but it didn't help.
My Authenticator issues began when I upgraded my iPhone, which although effectively a clone of my previous device stopped receiving Authenticator notifications and also generates 8-digit codes rather than the 6-digit codes requested by my client's Teams login. Incredibly frustrating.
Do you have any further advice?
Hello- I had the similar issue. I upgraded my iphone and synced the data and ,y authenticator stopped working and was generating 8 digit code. I called Microsoft support team and they said a technician will help and I have to pay 199$. Such an irresponsible and ridiculous response. Let me explain my scenario before giving details on how I resolved it. I had a gmail account which I used to login to azure portal and it had global admin rights. I enabled MFA on that account but wasnt getting approve requests on the microsoft authen app. The one-time pass code was also 8 digits. Google said, I have enabled passwordless authnetication, disable two step authentication etc, I did all that but nothing worked.
Lastly, I deleted/removed the gmail account from the authenticator app, then signed in the azure portal with my gmail account, went to AZure AD, users, selected the global admin user, authentication methods, there was an option to re-rgister MFA. I clicked that. Then signout and signedin again, gave the password, then I got a screen asking to register for two factor authentication with the QR code. I scanned that QR code in the authenticator app and it was successful. The passcode returned to 6 digits.
I believe if you change the device, re-register for MFA, scan the QR code and it should work.
Just my 2 cents on this. May be your case is different. Honestly, microsoft support sucks.
I am facing a similar problem. Even the technical support team is saying that they are incapable of resolving this issue as MS azure don't provide customer support on call.
This is extremely frustrating as my new job onboarding is being delayed by this because the company's portal requires 6 digit code.
I tried all the options available on the net but nothing seems to work.
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I keep getting 8 digits in need only six for the authenticator app can you help?
My app does not show the key symbol next to the user name as you described it.
I turned off 2-factor authentication but I still get 8 digit codes.
Any help?
This is ridiculous year has passed and there is still no fix tot his situation. I bet if it affected your stock in anyway you all would fix it immediately, because of this issue I am losing out on thousands of dollars a day, i have called Microsoft many times and your IT experts are as useless as the app. Is there anyway i can delete the authenticator app and not have to use it for any of my logging in, at this point I would rather my stuff be unsafe than to deal with your unresponsiveness and your IT peoples lack of knowledge about their own software.
Ciao, I have exactly the same problem, could you help me?
Github is asking for 6 numbers, i get 8 too , ios last updates all in.
Hi all
I am really having trouble logging in with my new created account for my company. I think I have made a mistake with logging in with both a personal account and as a work account. For some reason when trying to login with my work account which is the same email address as the personal account it is asking me for authenticator app 6 digits. But my authenticator app is showing 8 digits. So i am totally stucked, and is not able to login to my work account.
How is it possible to get some help from Microsoft.?
Thanks in advance
Søren
i just disable two factor,
no way to switch to 8 digits as my ios app produces,
may be enable it again , using new app?
I am not able to login to disable 2 factor due to 2 factor enabled :(
We are having the same issue. Any update on fixing this? Thanks
I have the same problem. iOS updated, then 8 digit codes. Have since gone back to an Android phone and still 8 digits on my personal MS account but 6 digits on my school account. Doesn't help though, because the 6 digit codes from my school account aren't accepted when I log in to personal accounts, i.e. PayPal. Very frustrating. Have logged out, logged in, changed password, reinstalled the app, and I don't have passwordless log in turned on.
Hey all. Any idea on how to fix it? I am having the same issues
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