Last updated: January 1, 2023
Social networks have now taken on a great importance in our lives and we only want to protect them as much as possible to prevent them from being hacked and falling into the wrong hands.
One of the solutions that works well at the moment is double authentication !
Can't access your Facebook account without confirmation or reset code? Don't panic, all is not lost! We'll show you how to log into your account using alternative methods to receiving a Facebook confirmation code.
What is Facebook double authentication?
Indeed, the principle is quite simple. Whenever a new connection appears or when you want to change a parameter, a message is sent to you on an application or by SMS.
You will then have the choice to approve or not what has just been done. This guarantees that even if the hackers have ever managed to find the passcode for your Facebook account, you will be able to prevent them from causing damage and retrieving information.
From then on, you just have to change your password after having made a virus scan to make sure that no malicious software is the source of this password leak that almost led to the hack.
But if you are here, it is precisely because you have lost access to this two-factor authentication software and you're desperately looking for a way to log into your Facebook account!
Ask Facebook to text you
The first thing you can do is simply ask Facebook to send you a temporary identification code on your mobile mailbox.
In fact, via the telephone number that you entered during the two-factor authentication procedure, you entered a telephone number and it is therefore on this that the brand will contact you.
To do this, follow these steps:
- From the screen asking for the connection code, click "Do you need another authentication method?" (at the bottom left).
- Select Other options at the bottom left.
- Then click Send me a connection code by SMS.
- Wait for the SMS to arrive and enter the 6-digit code
If in addition to not being able to access your authentication software, you can not access your laptop either, you can gold and already go to the next step because the code will only be sent to it for fairly obvious security reasons.
Use a security code
The second option is to plan that one day you may lose access to your two-factor authentication. So when you were in the process of setting it up, you can enter emergency codes.
These codes can only be used once, but they will allow you to have access to your account and therefore to be able to do whatever you want. We therefore recommend that you create a few during configuration.
Be careful not to create access codes that could be too easy for hackers to guess. So avoid taking everything 0000 or 1111 or even your date of birth. Doing so would ruin all the security put in place by two-factor authentication.
Allow connection from another device
That's silly, but one of the ways to allow a new device to connect is to simply go to an existing device! Indeed, you will then just have to go to the notifications.
You will then see a notification telling you that a connection attempt has taken place from a new device and this will even tell you the GPS coordinates from which that device to try to connect.
So, if it was you who tried to connect yourself, you just have to click on It was me to authorize access and you should therefore not have too many worries afterwards.
Finally, it will also allow you to know when strange connections which are not of your making have occurred.
Create a new account from your phone number
The last solution is an exclusive trick that you won't find anywhere else.
The trick is to use your phone number to create a new account. This will automatically erase the phone number from your old account and also two-factor authentication.
Once you have access to your old account, all you have to do is delete the new one and put two-factor authentication back in place as if nothing had happened.
Finally, if you are a victim of Facebook hacking, I invite you to look in the following article for the methods available to recover your precious property: Facebook account hacked, how to recover it?