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I dislike how the only way to get TOTP codes off a device is by rooting. I had a half dozen codes that I had to dump from the sqlite db when I first used authenticator.

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Thankfully this has been fixed. You can now choose "Transfer accounts" (from the menu in the top right corner) to copy everything to Google Authenticator on a new (or backup) phone.

Interesting! I ended up going with the LastPass authenticator in the end because of this issue but I am happy to see it fixed.

I use andOTP[1] installed via f-droid. You can easily get a backup file with your codes.

[1] https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP

Just FYI, it's possible to backup your codes on Android using Aegis too. No root needed.

https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis

This!

Though now Google Authenticator supports transfers, there is less of a need.

But I still enjoy using andOTP.

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