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by eek2121 297 days ago
I wish there was a way to export my codes from Microsoft authenticator on iOS. If anyone knows of a way to do this, please feel free to reply. I would like to move to an open source solution.
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Learned that the hard way, never ever add ANYTHING to the Microsoft Authenticator app if you can avoid it. It is impossible to migrate to something else.

I had a client where I got a new phone and forgot about the Microsoft Authenticator. Three months later I had to go on site with the client to reset my Authenticator as signups could only be done from their network.

Keep in mind that perfect is the enemy of good! You don't have to switch all at once. Start adding new tokens to a better manager and see if/when you get around to migrating the ones that are currently locked into Microsoft. That way, the task will get smaller rather than larger over time :)
I also have the same problem, however, I think Microsoft started to use some proprietary protocol wit some challenge / response scheme.
Yes, Microsoft tries to get you to use their proprietary mechanism by default. You need to click on the "use a different method" link when doing the setup to get a code that is compatible with e.g. Google Authenticator, FreeOTP, and all the other ones
The last time I tried to that for an external MS Teams instance, the option to use another method was gone. Could have been a compliance thing of the 'owner' of the instance, however, I actually tried multiple times to circumvent installing their app, but failed.
It's a setting of the app owner. I ran into the same thing. Though I admit a push based 2FA is more resistant to phishing.