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Never Lose Codes guides

How to move, back up and recover your two-factor codes, written by the people who build Never Lose Codes.

• How to move Google Authenticator codes to Chrome
  Step by step: export your Google Authenticator accounts as a QR code on your phone and bring every account into Chrome at once, without losing the copy on your phone.
• How to back up your 2FA codes (and test the backup)
  Why authenticator codes get lost, how Never Lose Codes backs them up automatically, and how to prove your backup works before you need it.
• Lost your authenticator codes? What to do now
  Locked out after losing your 2FA app or phone? The order to try things in: other devices, backup files, recovery codes, and each site's account recovery.
• Moving your 2FA codes to a new computer
  How to move Never Lose Codes and every 2FA account to a new or wiped computer using an encrypted backup file and your recovery key.
• What a recovery key is, and where to keep it
  Never Lose Codes shows a 26-character recovery key once. What it opens, why nobody else can reset it, and the best places to keep it.
• Security: how Never Lose Codes protects your codes
  The technical details: AES-256-GCM encryption, PBKDF2 with 600,000 iterations, a 128-bit recovery key, no website access, no network calls, and add-only restore.