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How it works: Backup and restore for Microsoft Authenticator

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Alex Weinert
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Nov 13, 2019
Hello! With the dust settling from Ignite 2019, let’s dive in with “how stuff works” – focusing on the Microsoft Authenticator’s backup and restore feature.   Earlier this year we released the Mi...
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Aug 19, 2022

Sherazawan if you have Microsoft Authenticator on a device with the old stuff, you can turn on back up from there. if you no longer have the app on any of your devices with the old data and you replaced your backup with an empty one then I don't think you can get your previous backup.