To enable the passwordless feature for your Microsoft account, you first have to add the Microsoft Authenticator app. After that, you will be able to enable the passwordless mode for your account.

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Security-minded folks should use authenticator apps instead. MFA, formerly known as 2FA (two-factor authentication), is a secondary security method born out of the decades-old security principle that ...