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Do you happen to know if they allow you to also totally disable SMS 2FA?

I know that Vanguard, for instance, supports non-SMS 2FA but doesn't let you disable SMS as a fallback (and I'd rather not just totally remove all phone numbers, but maybe I have to...).

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I believe you can remove SMS fallback now on Vanguard.

Neat, thank you! I'll give it a try.

Yeah, in Fidelity SMS 2FA is disabled for me. Fall back is to call them to get into my account. Don’t know about Schwab.

I had their non-SMS Symantec 2FA set up a couple years back, but turned it off cause I couldn't figure out how to disable the SMS fallback. Every time I got a new device and wanted to set up the Symantec TOTP generator they would just send me a SMS for validation. So I just told them to turn off the Symantec part.

Maybe they've changed their policy since then. But when you call to get set up on a new device, how do they verify your identity now if you don't have SMS fallback?

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