BENGALURU: Security plays vital role while restricting the unauthorized access into personal user account. Lately, all the big players in the technology industry are suggesting 2-step-verification to enhance the security of the user account. Usually in the login page, entering too many details could be highly irritating. Therefore, Google comes up with a new feature called Google Prompt that makes 2-step-verification much faster and less niggling to log-in for Android and iOS users.

Although prompt feature is available for both Android and iOS users, Google emphasizes iOS users to install Google Search app on the phone to get access to Google Prompt. When the iOS user tries to sign-in to Google account from third party services they stumble upon a notification asking for valid authorization. Earlier, user had to enter the verification code sent to the user on phone or mail. Now all they need to do is tap on “yes”, just one tap will pass the authorization but before that the user is supposed to turn on the service despite of using two-step verification.

Steps to turn on the 2-step verification feature: Go to My account, Select Sign-in and security option, and sign-in to Google to complete 2-step verification.

Apart from the latest Prompt option in my account page, Google also provides 3 confirmation options for users such as email, SMS or a security key. Google has joined lately to the user community of notifications as a way of login verification. Twitter and Facebook permit users to authenticate from their respective phones using the 2-step verification, but they still need to enter the app, view alert and then tap to confirm. In that case, Google is much faster with one tap process.

The future of 2-step verification feature is promising. Enterprises ranging from Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Twitter to world of Warcraft are seen leveraging 2-step authentication method to enhance the security of the login page. Google has made efforts to make the whole process quicker and safer. Currently, customers are not permitted to use both security keys and Google Prompt security features simultaneously. Google Prompt requires an active data connection.

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