How do I turn off Authenticator for Office 365? #M365AMA

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:

“Can anyone give me options on how to turn off Microsoft Authenticator for office 365? I have multiple students and I don’t want them to install the authenticator app on their phone.”

Check out the discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
• Sharon Weaver @sharoneweaver
• Geoff Varosky @gvaro
• Stacy Deere @sldeere
• Jonathan Weaver @j_weaver74

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• Our initial reaction: Why would you turn this off???
• While we surmise that this question comes from a good place and this teacher is trying to simplify the UX for their students, turning MFA off is a bad idea. A better option would be to set up text-based authentication: Set up text messaging as your verification method [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/set-up-text-messaging-as-your-verification-method-a61dcc0c-a003-424f-8a64-d92534ba0dad]