[German]Microsoft Authenticator is a free app that allows you to log in to online accounts without using a password. Instead, options such as fingerprint, facial recognition or PIN are used. The app could also store passwords. However, this function will be switched off in July 2025. The Microsoft Authenticator app has now started to warn users that the password saving function will soon be removed.
Microsoft Authenticator
Microsoft Authenticator is a free app that allows you to log in to online accounts without entering a password. Instead, options such as fingerprint, facial recognition or PIN are used. The app can also store passwords.
Password storage will be discontinued in July 2025
The Microsoft Authenticator could previously also be used as a password manager. However, Microsoft will soon be removing this function, as you can read in this support article.
Microsoft has announced that the auto-fill function, which allows saved passwords to be used easily on all devices, will be removed. As part of updates, the auto-fill function in Microsoft Authenticator will no longer be available from July 2025. There will also be the following changes:
- From June 2025, new passwords can no longer be saved in Authenticator.
- In July 2025, autofill with Authenticator can no longer be used.
- From August 2025, the saved passwords in Authenticator will no longer be accessible.
Saved passwords (not the generated password history) and addresses will still be securely synchronized with your Microsoft account, and users will still be able to access them.
Warning that password storage will be removed
Now Bleeping Computer reports in the article Microsoft Authenticator now warns to export passwords before July cutoff, that Microsoft Authenticator now warns to export passwords before July 2025 cutoff.
Notifications about the upcoming changes in the Microsoft Authenticator app will start on May 30, 2025. A full-screen banner will be displayed with a warning that saved passwords must be exported before July 1 or that users should switch to Microsoft Edge. The Microsoft Authenticator app notification states: "Autofill via Authenticator ends in July 2025".
It continues: "You can export your saved data (passwords only) from Authenticator until Autofill ends. You can access your passwords and addresses via Microsoft Edge at any time. To continue autofilling your data, enable Edge or another provider."
Bleeping Computer also shows an English screenshot of the message. I have long since uninstalled Microsoft Authenticator, hence the question: Has anyone received this notification?
I received the news from MS early last month and also from notifications in the Authenticator app till today constantly.
So, when news broke that MS will kill yet another useful app and Integrate most of its features to EDGE as to boost/strengthen said browser crowd and usage stats, I took the plunge and gave a try to KeePass, boy was I missing a LOT, It's a kinda steep first curve, but It IS a rewarding systemwide – cross platform solution that works.
I Exported and Deleted all my credentials on both MS Authenticator and Edge and Imported them to Keepass and never looked back!