#Authy desktop app mac osx how to

I’m surprised Apple even added this as a feature. I don’t want this data to be stuck in an opaque app that might corrupt its database. I do see some new entries in the Keychain Access app, but they are separate from the site’s main entry (messy), and the credential is not actually visible in Keychain Access and can’t be exported. Indeed, once I added a code to a site, that site would no longer appear in exports at all. It doesn’t feel like safe long-term storage since it doesn’t work with import/export. I would prefer my codes to be protected by a separate, stronger passphrase. I don’t want to use iCloud Keychain for all my passwords, just the 2FA codes, but that doesn’t seem to be possible. (Maybe this is because they are stored in a different keychain?) So there is no way to add the code, except maybe by consolidating keychains, which I don’t really want to do.

#Authy desktop app mac osx how to

Most of the sites that I want to add 2FA codes to do not appear in the Passwords section of Safari’s preferences, even though Safari does know how to auto-fill them. I’m interested in using this feature to enter 2FA codes more easily and to sync them using iCloud Keychain, but testing it out is giving me doubts: The end result was that I spent about an hour laboriously copying each setup code into the appropriate password entry in the Safari Technology Preview’s Password section and-just to be on the safe side-logging in to each website to make sure it worked. I found a tip that lets you easily display all of your time-based one-time password (TOTP) setup keys from Authy using the Authy Desktop app for Mac and Google Chrome. Nice as it would be if Apple’s new system could simply import all your codes from Authy-or other apps like Google Authenticator-it doesn’t seem as though that’s an option for that at present, which isn’t entirely surprising given the security issues involved. Migrating 2FA Codes From Authy to iCloud Keychain