9 months ago, Raivo OTP for iOS was sold to Mobime. Raivo was hailed highly in terms of privacy, but was dethroned to 2FAS Auth after that incident. Today, Raivo launched an update, and after updating all of my entries were completely wiped. I didn’t have a backup, but even if I did you now have to pay in order to import/export TOTP codes. No thank you.
If you haven’t already, create a backup right now for all of your 2FA apps, even if you think it won’t break.
You should be storing your 2fa seeds somewhere just in case an update isn’t able to import a backup. Makes it easy to shift to another app.
TOFU Authenticator is FOSS
Why wouldn’t you have backups? Of course OTPs are the most important thing to backup…
What’s the use case for using anything other than red hat’s freeotp?
What about Aegis?
Aegis is for Android, Ravio is an iOS app.
Uh, what do you mean? OpenOTP is great for 2FA for lots of sites.
If I remember correctly, I chose ravio over freeotp because the later lacked:
- Scanne functionality didn’t work.
- No export / inport
- Freeotp seemed like abondonware
Jokes on me.
Backups are good but this seems like a iOS type issue. Locked ecosystem with closed source apps designed to milk you.
Fossdroid is they way
I’m all for open apps but you’d have the same problem on Android without root if the app chooses to keep its stuff in its private storage. It’s worth noting it’s not restricted to iOS.
You really don’t. Android has F-droid which has lots of 2FA apps. These apps are community built so it is unlikely that you would have the same issue. However, you can still backup most of them just in case
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The app was bought out 9 months ago by some mystery company, isn’t actually open source, and you have not switched or made backups? I’m sorry, this is as much a user error as an issue with Raivo.
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While Apple’s products indeed are a bit less than compatible with privacy, it does not mean the owner of such products can’t care about it. Maybe they just recenty got into it, or have to use their products for some Apple-only feature that is essential for them.
