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We'll send you a text or call you with a new code that needs to be entered at sign-in. The phone number we contact you with may be different each time. Enable 2-step for phone. 1. Sign in to your Account Security page. 2. Next to "2-Step Verification," click Turn on. 3. Select Phone number for your 2-step verification method. 4.
When creating an app password, use a browser that you've used to sign into AOL Mail for several days in a row and avoid using Incognito mode.If this isn’t successful, use webmail or the official AOL App to access your email.
A security key is a physical device that gets uniquely associated with your AOL account after you enable it. Each time you sign in with your password, you'll be prompted to approve access to your account using your key. This prevents anyone who doesn't have your security key device from gaining access to your account.
In "Step 2" of the setup page, there is a box with a pattern which you have to point your device's camera toward. (Your device might ask you for permission to use the camera first.) If you can't scan the QR code, you can enter the "Two-factor authentication secret key" from "Step 2" of the setup page into the app, which gives you the same result.
Hardware authentication security keys. Multi-factor authentication (MFA; two-factor authentication, or 2FA, along with similar terms) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more pieces of evidence (or factors) to an authentication mechanism.
For example, a software-based authenticator implemented as a mobile app on the claimant's smartphone is a type of phone-based authenticator. To prevent access to the secret, a software-based authenticator may use a processor's trusted execution environment or a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on the client device.
This is why it's important to keep these recovery options up to date. Please review your account settings and recovery methods from time to time, and especially prior to changing phone numbers or other email addresses, to help ensure you can always access your account!
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".