Cannot rename entries in iOS authenticator app

[ThomasHabets]

Original issue 390 created by alex.leighton on 2014-06-04T10:09:00.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Add WildStar code to authenticator app
2. Once activated, will show only the code and my email address

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I should have an option to add a name so I know what the code is for. At the moment, it's blank. It's not possible to differentiate between my WildStar key and others.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? App: 2.1.0.2212, iOS: 7.1.1

Please provide any additional information below.

[ThomasHabets]

Comment #1 originally posted by lewis@kohana.co on 2014-06-25T09:29:19.000Z:

Come on Google, stop fucking about with Apple and sort it.

Want me to come and code it for you?

[ThomasHabets]

Comment #2 originally posted by alex.leighton on 2014-06-25T12:00:17.000Z:

I quite agree with your sentiment. A feature like this really ought to be there already. Surely it's not too much to ask to be able to name your keys?

[JBFUK]

Agreed this is stupid - you can edit the 'account name' but can't add a Label. Some entries like Google, LastPass and Facebook seem to have a pre-set label which can't be edited.

[djwaix]

Agreed. This feature needs to be updated to allow users to modify the account label so that we can quickly and easily identify the account we need access to. In my case, I have personal Gmail, Dropbox, LastPass, etc and also admin corporate accounts for these and more. The labels are often the same and cause invalid login attempts. Please fix this.

[ThomasHabets]

The opensource version of Google Authenticator is not staffed, but pull requests are welcome.

[megaroeny]

Is this going to be worked on?

[ThomasHabets]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[megaroeny]

You know, actually I just realized you CAN change the label. It's just not a bolded one on the top area. See, I have one for Dashlane:

[calvn]

Is there a way to edit the bolded title? Ideally I would like the bolded title to be the app name, and the bottom field to be the username/account for that particular app.

Update: I found a workaround for this, though it's a bit more tedious than simply scanning the QR code.

The bolded title is actually the issuer field on the URI, which can be added in. Simply take the secret key that the provider gives you if you choose to do "manual" configuration, and construct the URI like so: otpauth://totp/ISSUER:user@domain.com?secret=SECRET&issuer=ISSUER

The value that you put into ISSUERwill be what shows up as the label for the MFA entry in Google Authenticator. ISSUER value has to be URL encoded (to properly escape character like spaces).

Finally, use a QR code generator to generate a code from the URI, and scan that in with GA. Now you have a properly set up MFA entry! 🎉

[timxzz]

I think this is an issue for the UI's code in the iOS App, which seems are not up to date with Apple Store version (the latest one) in this repository. I just checked that out by cloning it into my xcode, the UI here is too outdated.

In this case, I guess Google will most likely ignore this issue in this repository, even if they fixed it, they won't commit to here :p

[ThomasHabets]

Yeah. I can file feature requests internally for things missing in the version in the App store, but the version in this repo (and therefore what the issues on this project should be) are on the opensource version, which is in the status of "not really maintained, but pull requests are accepted".

I have no Apple products, so I can't reproduce any problems or fix anything myself, though.

Or as my canned response says for both this repo and the google-authenticator-android one: --

FYI: The version in Google Play Store / Apple App store is not the same as this opensource version. They've diverged. This opensource version is also unlikely to end up in the app stores. This open source version doesn't get much love, but I'll accept well-written pull requests. But don't expect this feature to be implemented by Google.

[StanWarford]

I have this problem also. Please, Google, let me edit the name of my Authenticator account, and put it on the iOS app store!

[farshadtx]

+1

[HEskandari]

+1

[MarvAmBass]

+1

[kappaknight]

GOD DAMN THIS THING HAS BEEN OPEN FOR YEARS! +1,000,000!

[jechol]

Why not have been deployed for 3 years????

[dberringer]

+1

[rsekelsky]

+1

[fsmeier]

+1

[msisto]

+1

[hcalleba]

+1

[alxshell]

+1

[hcalleba]

I found how to rename it. Just hold the entry you want to rename for a bit and then the top right corner where there are the three points will be changed to a trash can and a crayon which you can click on to delete or rename the entry

[fsmeier]

@hcalleba This is not working for ios

[StanWarford]

Does not work for me either.

[posiczko]

So, erm, hi. Any chance this could be fixed or should google-authenticator be considered an abandoned project?

Also +1,000,000

[CheezeCoder]

+1

[ronkorving]

I love the engagement from Google here. +1

[carlosmmelo]

apparently this is an abandoned project

[darksoul42]

+1

[opicron]

+1

[sgjenks01]

This is best solved by a user hack. Just put your GA into edit and then edit the line below the number. If you want to keep what's there, you can put what you want in front or behind the existing text. Editing this does not affect the output of GA'

[pbn21]

Not sure why others cannot use the editor to rename the label. As sgjenks01 wrote above, put the authenticator in edit by tapping the three dots in the upper right corner. Then select the pencil next to the account you want to edit...save the edit. Or, delete duplicate accounts created in error using the trash icon.

[opicron]

We know you can edit the bottom label. We want to edit the TOP label. Why wouldn't we be able to edit our own data? I quit using google authenticator and moved to Bitwarden self hosted. Never looked back.

[BoffinBrain]

I was just searching for this issue myself. Frequently, I end up with entries where I can edit the part in parentheses (the email or username) but not the site/app name... And if I attempt to remove the email entirely, I just end up with an empty pair of parentheses at the end of the entry's name. So this has been an issue for over 7 years? Fantastic.

I should mention that this also occurs on Android so it's not specific to iPhone.