Overview

The Authy Desktop app for Linux, MacOS and Windows reached their End-of-Life on March 19, 2024 and are no longer supported.

Twilio released its last update (v3.0.0) to the Authy Desktop apps to dynamically increase the amount of rounds of password-based key derivation function for encrypting seeds, making passwords harder to brute force.

What You Need To Know

For Authy API Customers 🔗

For users implementing the Authy APIs to secure your application(s), we would like to recommend you the following:

• Prepare communication around this notice and related timelines to your internal teams and your customers to minimize surprise or panic on the part of your customers.
• Advise your customers to switch to our mobile apps, and share info on how to backup and sync their tokens across devices.
• Depending on your use case, consider using the Verify TOTP API to register your users on a 3rd party desktop authenticator app.
  
  

For Authy App End Users 🔗

Please check our end user guide to find out what will happen to the Authy Desktop application, and our suggestions for the EOL: User guide: End of Life (EOL) for Twilio Authy Desktop app