{"id":22936,"date":"2022-12-13T02:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T02:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/microsoft-authenticator-watchos-app-to-be-discontinued-in-january\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T02:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T02:47:57","slug":"microsoft-authenticator-watchos-app-to-be-discontinued-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/microsoft-authenticator-watchos-app-to-be-discontinued-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Authenticator watchOS app to be discontinued in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you use the Microsoft Authenticator app on your Apple Watch<\/a>, be prepared to look for an alternative starting January 2023. <\/p>\n

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Yet another companion app is leaving the Apple Watch, and this time it’s the two-factor authentication app, Microsoft Authenticator. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a support post spotted by<\/a> 9to5Mac<\/em>, Microsoft confirmed<\/a> that a new update to the Microsoft Authenticator iOS app will cause the watchOS<\/a> companion app to quit working. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft suggests that anyone who currently has the watchOS app installed to delete it, as it will be nonfunctional sometime in January. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Microsoft, watchOS is incompatible with Microsoft Authenticator’s security features. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course, anyone who needs to use Microsoft Authenticator to access their Microsoft account will still be able to use the app on iPhone or iPad<\/a> \u2014 it’s only Apple Watch that is affected. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This marks another app that is quietly leaving the Apple Watch. In 2017, Google pulled its companion Google Maps app, but later reinstated support for it<\/a> in 2020. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While eBay introduced its watchOS app in 2015, it removed it in 2017.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2018,<\/a> enterprise messaging platform Slack depreciated its Apple Watch app. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2019, Niantic pulled<\/a> the Pokemon Go companion app from the Apple Watch less than three years after it was introduced.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n