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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.
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.