Given that the underlying authentication system is the same, there's no good reason for this except to encourage heavy 2FA users not to use it with Steam. You can enable 2FA by installing and enabling a 2FA app like TOTP which works with Google Authenticator and compatible apps. Steam is the only one that decided to make their system incompatible with this, so that you need a special, separate app on your phone and you can't do it at all on PCs. That says absolutely nothing about why they use a proprietary interface in front of TOTP that prevents the use of standard multi-site TOTP authenticators such as Authy, Google Authenticator, 1Password, the Tray Totp plugin for KeePass 2, or many others.Īs I said, I do this sort of authentication on a couple of dozen different web sites, and for every one of them I use Authy on my phone and in Chrome browsers, and KeePass2 on PCs. In this article, we are going to focus on how TOTP works in Google Authenticator. It is the best alternative for Microsoft Authenticator and Google Authenticator.

If you see Enable phone sign-in, tap it to turn on phone sign-in. If you see Phone sign-in enabled that means you are fully set up to sign in without your password.

When you tap the account tile, you see a full screen view of the account. Początkowo opublikowane przez Category Theory:I really wish someone at Valve would step up and explain why they feel it's better that you and I don't use 2FA than switching the standard 2FA system. Generate time-based (TOTP) codes offline in your Verifyr Authenticator App. Open the Microsoft Authenticator app, go to your work or school account, and turn on phone sign-in.

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