Battery replacement effect on authentication apps

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Battery replacement effect on authentication apps

I have an iPad, original 12" iPad Pro (also an iPhone). Am PC user due to work requirements, so little understanding of Mac.

iPad battery is down to 4 hours between charges. Am guessing I need battery replacement.

I have back up to iCloud turned on. However, I don't understand implications to authenticator apps. I have three including Google, Microsoft, and Norton. I understand at least Google is not backed up. Not sure of the others. I see discussions of recovery codes, but find while I have such codes for Microsoft, Google and Apple accounts, I have nothing that says codes apply to authenticator apps.

My questions then:

1) Assuming "things go right", is there any loss of data or capability of these apps with loss of power due to battery replacement?

2) Assuming "things don't go right", what should be done to be in a position to recover?

3) Is there any security concern with having these apps in place on the unit while out of my control at repair facility?

Thankyou

iPad Pro, iPadOS 16

Posted on Apr 5, 2023 11:36 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 5, 2023 12:00 PM in response to Samsuch

Those are questions that are best answered by the app developers. However, it would be a rather rare event that a battery replacement would result in any data loss.

Unless the people replacing your battery also have you user ID and password, having access to an authenticator app wouldn't do them much good.

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Apr 8, 2023 8:21 AM in response to Samsuch

Thank you

Got a little lazy researching Apps. Have now found some sites that speak to migration of authentication apps to new or replacement iPhone. Hopefully work with iPad and with recovery on initial device, if it comes to that.

While question on repair access probably appears naive, more paranoia than naiveite. Guess too much PC / Windows use. Seems like there are folks out there who can break pretty much any protections.

Will close this once I figure out how.

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Apr 11, 2023 11:48 AM in response to Samsuch

Samsuch wrote:

Will close this once I figure out how.

You can't. However, the thread will be automatically locked once it has no posts for 30 days.

Best of luck.

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