Gmail is to ditch the use of SMS codes for authentication purposes, a Google spokesperson said. Here’s what you need to know.

In an attempt to improve user privacy, Google's Gmail has decided to replace SMS authentication with QR codes.

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“Just like we want to move past passwords with the use of things like passkeys,” Gmail spokesperson Ross Richendrfer told me, “we want to move away from sending SMS messages for authentication.

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