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Select the kind of phone you are transferring the accounts to, and then the website will generate a QR code that you can scan. Go to your Google Account page, select Security in the left-hand navbar, select 2-Step Verification, scroll down to Authenticator app and select "Change phone." If an iPhone is involved in any step of this procedure, you'll have to use a desktop or laptop computer instead. Scan the QR code on the old phone with the new phone's camera, and you'll be all set. Select Import Accounts, then Scan QR code. Keep that on the screen, open the Authenticator app on the new phone and go to Transfer Accounts again. Your old phone will then generate its own QR code. Select Export Accounts, enter your phone's PIN or your fingerprint, and select the accounts to be exported. In the Authenticator app on the old phone, tap the menu icon in the upper right and select Transfer Accounts. You'll need to have both phones with you to do this, and both will need to have the latest version of the Google Authenticator app installed. But as of May 2020, you can easily transfer all your authenticator "seeds" directly from one Android phone to another. Until recently, Google Authenticator made you start from scratch all over again when you got a new phone. How to transfer Google Authenticator to a new phone
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