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Google Authenticator after an iphone motherboard replacement

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A little while back my iPhone X started having motherboard issues and was unable to be booted up. I was using Google Authenticator to store many accounts, some of which may be impossible to get to without those codes. From what I understand **Google Authenticator is tied to your hardware**, and as a result when I restored my icloud backup to a new phone, the Google Authenticator keys are lost. This leaves me no choice but to try to get the old iPhone working so I can safely restore an iCloud backup to it and have the google authenticator codes appear again. If it’s the same phone this will work fine. The question is: If the phones motherboard is replaced, does that effectively change the hardware so much that google authenticator won’t recognize it as being the same phone?
Asked by Ronzz (21 rep)
Nov 3, 2020, 08:37 PM
Last activity: Nov 4, 2020, 07:06 AM