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by seanzieapples 3716 days ago
Same thing happened to me. They said I had to wait like a week or something. Kinda dumb
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Delays like this (the old 2-step verification had a 2-3 day delay when first enabled) are to prevent someone else logging into your account (without any form of 2fa), and then enabling the 2fa system, thereby locking you out of your own account.