For those of us who understand this same joy, Microsoft recently released a notification saying that they're going to make it so that Microsoft Authenticator no longer functions on rooted or jailbroken devices.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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Never EVER install work software on a personal device.
If you require me to use software to do the job, you've gotta provide me with a device to run that software on. Absolutely no leeway there. That includes things like Slack and Teams.
You do not speak for all. I like slack on my phone! I chat shit to colleagues in the evening sometimes (I don't get out much)
I do the same.
Only, I message my work friends on my work chat on my work device and invite them to become my friends on my non work chat (usually discord since that's where everyone is, Signal if the friend in question is there). That way we can talk about anything we want, even complain about work, without fear of eventual retribution if a bad boss / chat admin enters the equation.
Ah, I also do this 😅 but not with everyone. Some people I don't fancy having in my discord for one reason or another...
I'm pretty sure any other 2FA TOTP app can be used instead; you just have to enter the six-digit code.
Did this because my work laptop arrived before the phone.
Depends on the IT department. My previous place actually disabled 3rd party authenticators...I list half a day of work because I needed a domain admin to flush my Google authenticator so I can re-enroll with M$ Authenticator.
Fair. Just found out my PC has the "detect you reusing your login password on other sites" feature turned on... when I entered my old password into the change password box.
I just get the pop-up to enter the two digit code that is displayed on my computer.
You need to enroll a TOTP app as a 2FA method, then you should be able to select which you use.
Yup, never installed the MS crap and used Google authenticator before moving everything to Bitwarden authenticator when it was released
When I started my current job I asked my boss about the troubles I was having getting my work emails sent to my phone, and he asked me incredulously “Why the hell would you want work emails on your cell phone?” Good point. First time my boss has ever been a decent human being.
I just make it send a text instead, fuck the authenticator.
Yeah, don't get too attached; your company can disable that.
I'm hoping the constant complaints of the app being down several days a week will stop them making it worse.
The Azure outage yesterday made ms authenticator unable to connect for... The whole day. Couldn't log in to anything at all.
Island for android. Its on fdroid.