The Microsoft Authenticator app, as you know it today, will soon be deprived of one of its main features. Microsoft has just announced the upcoming end of password management in its authentication app. By this summer, you will no longer be able to use autofill or save new passwords.
Authenticator passwords will remain accessible in Edge
Microsoft Authenticator, which allows you to manage passwords, PassKeys, and generate authentication codes to validate your online logins, will take a real step backward in the coming weeks.
Concretely, starting in June 2025, you will no longer be able to save new passwords in the app. In July, Authenticator autofill will be retired, while in August, all your passwords stored in Authenticator will become inaccessible.
This change is not without consequences, but it greatly suits Microsoft. Because while passwords saved in Authenticator will be deleted, they will be synchronized with your Microsoft account, and will remain accessible elsewhere: in Microsoft Edge.
Those who used Authenticator to autofill their passwords on iOS and Android will have to make the switch. To continue accessing their passwords previously stored in Authenticator, they will have no choice but to download Microsoft Edge on their smartphone and enable it as an autofill provider.
Authenticator refocuses on access keys and authentication codes
Rest assured, however, while password management will disappear from Authenticator, the application will not disappear. It will continue to exist to store your access keys and provide you with validation codes for multi-factor authentication. You can also continue to use it to validate the connection to your Microsoft account, provided, of course, that you configure passwordless connection for your Microsoft account.
A few days ago, the Redmond firm announced that all new Microsoft accounts created would automatically be passwordless, but instead with an access key, or validation via a notification received in Authenticator.
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