One of many options I actually favored in regards to the Microsoft Authenticator apps was the built-in password supervisor. It allowed you to retailer and mechanically fill passwords on apps and web sites, which labored nice.
However Microsoft has determined to take away the characteristic this summer time, and in case you have been utilizing it, then you will have to behave now to maneuver your passwords. In any other case, you’ll lose entry to your saved passwords.
What’s Altering
Microsoft needs to streamline how passwords are saved in your Microsoft account. At the moment, you may retailer passwords within the Edge browser (similar to with many different browsers) and within the Microsoft Authenticator app.
As a substitute of storing passwords in two completely different areas, Microsoft has determined to maneuver the password administration and autofill solely to Microsoft Edge. The benefit of that is that you just now have one place the place the passwords are saved, permitting you to simply entry all of your credentials from completely different units.
However that additionally means that you’ll want to put in the Edge browser in your cellular gadget and you will have to take some steps to safe your saved passwords.
Vital Dates
Microsoft introduced these modifications simply final week, and solely offers us a month to verify everyone has moved to Edge:
- June 2025 – You’ll now not have the ability to retailer new passwords within the Authenticator app
- July 2025 – The autofill characteristic of Microsoft Authenticator will now not work
- After July 2025 – your saved fee data can be deleted out of your gadget
- Aug 2025 – You received’t have entry anymore to your saved password within the Authenticator app
What it’s good to do
The passwords within the Microsoft Authenticator apps are already synced to your Microsoft Account. So, in case you are utilizing the identical Microsoft account in Microsoft Edge, then the passwords may even be obtainable in Edge.
Within the article, Microsoft mentions that we have to save genereated passwords from the Generator Historical past, which you are able to do from the Passwords tab > Menu ( … ). I don’t see that possibility in my app, nevertheless it is perhaps price testing (and in the event you discover it, let me know within the feedback beneath!)
Good to know is that the Authenticator app will hold help passkeys, so that you don’t should do any about that.
What I like to recommend to do is double examine that you’re utilizing the identical Microsoft account within the Authenticator app and Edge:
- Open Microsoft Authenticator
- Go to Settings
- Scroll right down to Sync Account and observe the e-mail tackle
- Open Edge in your cellular gadget
- Click on on the menu
- Verify which account you might be signed in with
In case you are utilizing completely different accounts, then you will have to export your saved passwords from the authenticator app. Vital to notice is that the exported password can be saved in plain textual content, so take away the export file when performed:
- Open Microsoft Authenticator
- Go to Settings
- Click on on Export Password and ensure the motion
- Open Edge in your cellular
- Go to Settings
- Click on on Passwords
- Click on on Import Passwords and select CSV file
- Choose the CSV file that we simply created within the Authenticator app
Whilst you have the Edge settings open, it’s a good suggestion to additionally examine and allow the autofill characteristic. You’ll need to allow this characteristic to mechanically enter the passwords in different apps.
Wrapping Up
I’m disillusioned that the password supervisor is being remvoed from Microsoft Authenticator. I actually favored having one app for all authentication strategies. In case you already utilizing the identical account, then the passwords are already synced, so there is no such thing as a actual want for this variation, count on selling the Edge browser 😉
If Microsoft Authenticator is utilized in your group, then guarantee that your customers are conscious of this upcoming change!
