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OriginalGriff5-Oct-23 19:32
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GeneralGlasses, 2 factor authorization and me Pin
Brian L Hughes5-Oct-23 15:13
Brian L Hughes5-Oct-23 15:13 
Is anyone suffering from the problem of trying to get 2 factor auth codes from the text messages on their smart phone? I have to take off my glasses to use my phone, the screen is so small, then I can't see to type in the numbers on my computer monitor! I usually memorize 3 digits of numbers at a time taking off my glasses and putting them back on. No way am I getting bi-focals just for my dumb phone. But it's really a pain and more web sites are going 2 factor authentication, my bank, GitHub, etc.

Having my phone announce the numbers on speaker is probably not a good idea. I could get a tablet and setup a 2nd phone number on it just so I could read the numbers, expensive!

I really can't think of cheap elegant way to solve this. I could install a 3rd party app that allows the smart phone to mirror it's screen to a tablet across wifi but that seems risky.

I could allow Microsoft Windows to sync to my smart phone but that seems like the worst solution of all, if my PC is in a compromised state all my accounts could be wide open to hackers. The idea is to get the authentication out of the PC loop right?

OK folks, I think I found a solution, for android at least. In the text messaging app, click on the menu icon, upper left, 3 horizontal lines, choose "customize", then "Font" and slide the font size all the way to the right, I can read the codes with my glasses on. Unfortunately it makes reading other messages in the app kind of crazy.
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