Tuesday December 13, 2022 4:47 americium PST by

Microsoft Authenticator for iOS volition driblet enactment for the Apple Watch companion app from January 2023, the institution has revealed.

Microsoft Authenticator
Used principally for signing into Microsoft accounts with two-step verification enabled, the Microsoft Authenticator for iOS gained an Apple Watch companion app successful 2018.

The ticker app supports Microsoft personal, work, and schoolhouse accounts that are acceptable up with propulsion notifications and lets users bypass the request to prime up their iPhone astatine each to implicit the authentication process.

However, this functionality is being removed astatine the opening of adjacent year. Microsoft documented the alteration to the iOS app successful an updated FAQ webpage. In reply to the question "Is Apple Watch supported for Authenticator connected iOS?" Microsoft gives the pursuing reply:

In the upcoming Authenticator merchandise successful January 2023 for iOS, determination volition beryllium nary companion app for watchOS owed to it being incompatible with Authenticator information features. This means you won't beryllium capable to instal oregon usage Authenticator connected Apple Watch. We truthful urge that you delete Authenticator from your Apple Watch. This alteration lone impacts Apple Watch, truthful you volition inactive beryllium capable to usage Authenticator connected your different devices.

Microsoft did not specify which information features the watchOS app is incompatible with going forward, and alternatively simply directs users to the ‌iPhone‌ oregon iPad app to authenticate login attempts.

The Microsoft Authenticator app for Apple Watch joins a agelong database of abandoned third-party watchOS apps that person been discontinued implicit the past fewer years, either due to the fact that of perceived redundancy oregon deficiency of idiosyncratic uptake. Other notable Apple Watch apps that person got the chop see Twitter, Instagram, Target, Trello, Slack, Hulu, and Uber.

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