- Microsoft Authenticator stops today
- It’s your last chance to save your stored passwords
- Microsoft goes to a more secure alternative
In case you have missed warnings, Microsoft Authenticator stops today (August 1, 2025) and will delete all your stored passwords – unless you do some key things.
Microsoft has notified users of the imminent closure of its authenticator application for some time now, by informing users that they will have to move on to the use of Passkeys rather than Microsoft Authenticator.
For all those who have not prepared for today’s stop, it is your last chance to wear all your identification information stored on Microsoft Edge.
How to save your passwords
Passkeys quickly became the favorite alternative to passwords for companies and consumers. They are faster to use and much more secure against phishing and identification flight, and each passing key is completely unique and stored safely.
As a bonus, Passkeys can be verified using secure biometric authentication using a facial recognition analysis or a fingerprint.
If you want to save all your Microsoft Authenticator passwords stored to access it later, you only have today to wear your passwords on Microsoft Edge. Otherwise, they will be deleted and you will not be able to access it.
Users will be invited to configure a pass key if they have a password and a unique code configured on their account.
Just log into your Microsoft Authenticator account, and an invite will ask you to configure a new Passkey. Alternatively, you can open your account, press the “Configure a pass key” option, then use your existing username and password to connect.
Microsoft has spent a lot of time and efforts to make Passkeys the default connection option, by studying how users interact with Passkeys and what would make a user more likely to use a key key. The advantage that has resonated the most with users is the possibility of connecting faster and more easily than typing a password.
As Passkeys is not left to the user to decide (or to remember) that they are much more secure than passwords generated by the user and do not have to be stored in a password manager.
For a pirate to be able to crack in an account protected by the passing key, he would need to have physical access to your face or fingerprints or in some cases a secure spindle.
