Where to Go Next¶
You can now add accounts and sign in with their codes. That is most of what the app does. Here is where to look for the rest.
Do one thing today: make a backup¶
Your setup keys exist only in Private Authenticator (and in your iCloud Keychain, if you chose to sync). If your iPhone is lost or broken and you have no backup, you have to recover every account through each website's own procedure, which can take days. A backup takes two minutes. Read Why Back Up? and Making a Backup.
Bringing your other accounts across¶
- From Google Authenticator: Importing from Google Authenticator.
- From Aegis, andOTP and other apps, or from a text file: Importing from Other Apps.
- From Microsoft Authenticator or Oracle Mobile Authenticator: those apps can't export, so each account has to be set up again from its website. The same page explains.
Everyday tidiness¶
The Everyday Use book explains the Recent tab and search, how to group accounts with tags, editing, and why the app archives instead of deleting.
Settings worth knowing about¶
The Settings Page is where you change how long the code screen stays open, whether the app locks itself when you leave it idle, and whether Face ID is needed to open the app at all. Apple Watch shows how to put your codes on your wrist.
When something goes wrong¶
Troubleshooting lists the messages you might see and what to do about each. The FAQ answers the questions we're asked most. And Getting More Help tells you how to email us.
Continue to the Everyday Use book: The Recent Tab and Search.