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Gmail is dropping SMS authentication in favor of QR codes

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Google is ditching SMS text messages as a form of account authentication in Gmail .

For years , this has been one of the main ways to gain access to a Gmail account.

Google will replace those texts with QR codes "over the next few months " There's no firm date for when this change will happen, but look out for it as we roll through 2025 .

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