Make your Facebook Account Secured with 2FA

About Facebook Two Factor Authentication 

Nowadays, Facebook is one and only social network with Googolplex users in the world. Helpful for the users to stay connected with all their friends all the time. And at the same time keeping your Facebook account secured from the Hackers is a must and should activity. This article is mainly a security tip for the Facebook users and also tutorial about how to setup Two Factor Authenticator with Facebook. Here is how to setup two step verification within your Facebook account.

How Facebook Two Factor Authentication works?

BY using the Facebook Two Authenticator makes it to ask the unique 6 digit security code each time you try to login to your Facebook account from a new computer or mobile phone. This unique pass code is a time sensitive code which works for a period of 30 seconds. So no other users can enter your Facebook account easily by typing your login credentials without OTP. Let us get into the details about how to enable two factor authentication in the Facebook account.

Here is how to enable two-factor authentication on the Facebook account:

The best thing is to use the mobile Facebook app to get the unique 6 digit passcode to login to your Facebook account.

In our case we are using Google authenticator with my Facebook account. This app is developed by the Google, and is available for most of the mobile platforms.

You can also use Authy app, which is an awesome app. The main benefit of using Authy is capable to sync the user profiles between all the devices like Computer, Phone and tablets.

How to set up Facebook two Factor Authentication with Facebook App? 

Here is the step by step guide to enable Facebook two factor authentication using a mobile Facebook application.

1. Firstly login into your Facebook account.


2. Go to the account Settings in the drop-down menu on the top right side.


3. Now click on the Security option in the left sidebar of the account settings.


4. Click on the Code Generator (use your Facebook app to get the security codes when you need them).


5. Click on the Set-up option above the Disable


6. Set up a Third Party App to Generate Codes – pop up will appear on the screen.


7. Now login to the mobile Facebook app.


8. Click on the Menu


9. Scroll to the bottom and select the Code Generator.


10. Now you can see a 6 digit passcode on the mobile screen, enter this pass code into the Security code on the pop up on the desktop browser.


11. When the pass code is working, then click on the confirm button.

Note: The OTP (Pass code) should be entered into the popup within 30 seconds before it got expired.

Now you have successfully enabled the 2 step authentication for your Facebook account.

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Make your Facebook Account Secured with 2FA