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How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2024-03-05

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Reece Rogers

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Meta updated Facebook and Instagram two-factor authentication (2FA) to automatically trust devices you’ve frequently used in the past two years, reducing 2FA prompts on those devices unless you opt out. The article encourages users to enable 2FA via Account Center (Password and security > Two-factor authentication), notes support for app-based codes like Google Authenticator, and frames the change as balancing accessibility with account security.

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