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What's the exact timeline of ending SMS/Voice as MFA? We have until Feb 2027 to migrate existing users using this method as primary to something else like passkey/Authenticator notif?
collinblatt-mtm The retirement timeline is here: Passkeys by default and retirement of Microsoft-provided SMS and voice authentication - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn After February 1, 2027, you will not be able to use SMS or voice as MFA. The rest of the article talks about how beginning in just 12 days users will be nudged for Passkey registration upon MFA sign-in.
- shin0933Aug 20, 2026Brass Contributor
If we turn off the option to enroll SMS MFA, will that impact users that are already enrolled?
- EricMoeAug 20, 2026
Microsoft
shin0933 - Reading through the FAQ, the process that begins on Sept 1 will be to prompt users to register a Passkey upon having SMS or voice in the authentication method policies. I suspect you would want to leave the option enabled so the users are nudged appropriately, but I'm not an Entra expert.
- shin0933Aug 20, 2026Brass Contributor
Sorry, I missed the reply.