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raphael_l | 8 months ago

Slightly off topic, but the Microsoft Authenticator app on iOS is - in my opinion - the probably worst designed app by a large corporation. Nothing in there works the way you’d expect it to work.

And my absolutely favorite thing was when it itself came in the way of seeing the 2FA code for a modal entry and you had the option on the screen to hide the modal for 10 seconds in order to remember the number underneath…

See screenshot here: https://ibb.co/5Wh05rsd

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cycomanic|8 months ago

Don't worry it's not better on Android either. Since my work has switched to office365 it's just been hassle after hassle.

The outlook app on my phone (and I can't use any other method because it has been disabled), frequently looses authentication and I stop getting notifications about calendar events, emails ..., missed several meetings and important emails because of this.

When trying to login on my desktop/laptop I get told to confirm using either outlook, MS authentication app. Guess what often I have been locked out on those as well, so now I have to go through the dance of logging in using a sms code instead. It's sometimes even worse, even on mobile I get told to confirm from my authentication app/outlook, where I'm just trying to log in.

Authentication request often only come through to my phone on the 3rd of 4th try. So now logging in to check my email suddenly takes 2 min, because I'm trying to get the popup in the app, it doesn't appear, I need to cancel the request, restart ...

jorvi|8 months ago

Are you on an iPhone Mini?

Just like the 5S / SE before it, corporations just sort of stopped testing that screen size, which leads to dumb UI gaffes like that.

Another classic is button or menu text getting truncated. Spotify had that problem on the SE too.

raphael_l|8 months ago

This was in February of last year according to the screenshot, my device was an iPhone 11 - not a small one, but rather very much standard screen size!

strbean|8 months ago

Truly amazing that without the "I can't see the number" option you probably could have seen the number.

raphael_l|8 months ago

That’s true, but only for my screen size. A smaller device wouldn’t.