How to Activate 2-Factor Authentication on Facebook

Lukas Nugroho
3 min readJun 5, 2020

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Two-factor authentication is an extra layer of security to protect your account on websites/applications. Instead of only entering a password to log in, you’ll also enter a code or use a security key. This additional step helps make sure that only you can access your account and prevent someone else from getting into your account.

Because your password is no longer enough to secure your account, we recommend you to use MYOTPS. MYOTPS is a one-stop authenticator similar to Google Authenticator that helps to increase your security dramatically and decrease threats from someone who tries to steal your account. Every time you want to login to your account, you’ll be asked to enter a 6-digit verification code from MYOTPS that only you can get in your device.

MYOTPS has an advantage even your device is lost or broken, you can backup and restore your 2FA, as long you remember your phone number and passwords registered in the MYOTPS system. You can download MYOTPS on Google Play [Download MYOTPS]

And these are the steps of how to integrate your Facebook account with MYOTPS:

  1. Log in on your Facebook account

2. Go to Settings in your account

3. Click Security and Login and find two-factor authentication

4. Click Edit on Use two-factor authentication to begin the integration

5. Click Use Authentication App and you will be asked to enter your password

6. Scan the Barcode or copy the Secret Key manually

7. Open MYOTPS app and choose to scan Barcode or input Secret Key

8. If you choose to scan the QR Code, please scan QR Code that appears on Facebook to activate two-way authenticator

9. If you choose to input the Secret Keys, please input the application/website name, your account name and Secret Keys that appear on Facebook

10. After you finish scan QR code or input Secret Keys, MYOTPS will generate 6-digit verification code

11. After getting a 6-digit verification code from MYOTPS, click Continue to proceed

12. Enter the 6-digit verification code from MYOTPS in Facebook confirmation code and click Continue to activate

13. Yay! You have successfully integrated 2-Step verification with MYOTPS, use MYOTPS in all your website/application to stay secure

14. Remember to backup your token in MYOTPS in case your device is lost or stolen.

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Lukas Nugroho

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