Gmail Security Alert: Google To Ditch SMS Codes For Billions Of Users
Posted: 27th Feb 2025
It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal. Just as the tech industry is slowly moving away from passwords to passkeys that take a more secure biometric approach to logins, the use of code-generating apps and even app-less approaches to two-factor authentication have increasingly become the norm in recent years. But SMS has always been said to be better than no authentication at all, which is hard to argue with. Now, following a privileged conversation with Google insiders, I can exclusively reveal that Gmail is finally looking to ditch SMS codes for authentication. Here’s everything you need to know.
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