Anyone Having Issues with Pokemon Go and Google's Two-Factor Authentication?

1 points by jasalo 9 years ago | 3 comments

Everytime I open the app it forces me to log into my account (which has two-factor authentication enabled). Every single time. My guess is that two-factor auth only gives the app some sort of one-time use token which 'expires' or stops working when I open the app again. I wouldn't like to turn off the two-factor auth, as I consider it an important security feature for my GMail account. I've installed the app twice and still face the same issue. Could it be only happening in my device or is it more of a UX (or software integration) problem here? If it is a real issue, then it'd represent a dangerous (yet somehow ironically funny) security breach, because a lot of people would be disabling their two-factor authentication just to "catch 'em all!"

27182818284 9 years ago |

Yeah a lot of people are running into it. There are jokes that Pokemon GO just killed 2-factor auth for tons of people as a result.

For what it is worth, this isn't a problem with Ingress, so I'd imagine it will be fixed soon.

sfeather 9 years ago |

Create an app specific password just for the game. Some very early Ingress players had to do that. No rhyme or reason to why one account will work, others wont.

jasalo 9 years ago | |

I created an App specific password but still didn't work (tried twice).