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You can disable SMS on Fastmail after you enable 2FA. I had asked their support, and IIRC the trick is to hold down CTRL when you're on the settings page, which will enable the "Disable SMS" option.

This was years ago, so YMMV.




That's the craziest thing ive ever heard, Easter egg to disable bad security options. What is this a video game?


You wouldn't be surprised if you saw the amount of people that said "hey can you remove my 2FA? I kept my codes on my phone and it broke".

It's a real UX issue, the average person just can't back up their TOTP codes at all. Hell, I have a Yubikey as a backup and enroll the TOTP code to both places, and to the Yubikey as U2F.


FWIW I now checked and I could remove SMS without tricks. It definitely forced me to set that up first.


Ah, good. It does force you to set up SMS, but, when I tried, I had to contact support to disable it without disabling 2FA completely.




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