Open the 1Password, edit any account that currently does not have a 2FA set, and try to scan the QR below you will see the error message from the image on the right. The image on the left is a genuine account that I wanted to transfer from Google Authenticator, and the image on the right is an error message after I tried to scan it using 1Password.įeel free to try it for yourself. When presenting the QR code generated by the Google Authenticator app to the 1Password 2FA QR code scanner, the 1Password will return an error message similar to the image below. Extract Secret Keys from the Google Authenticator QR Code.This article is a part of a series of articles related to moving accounts from the Google Authenticator app that you may also find interesting.

If you have tried to export Google Authenticator to 1Password, you may recall that the QR codes generated by the Google Authenticator app when using the Transfer Accounts option cannot be read by the 1Password QR scanner. However, many people, including myself, kept using the Google Authenticator app to generate the Two-Factor Authentication TOTP codes either due to the lack of other options or simply because we didn’t bother spending hours visiting each account rescanning the QR codes with other applications.

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