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I'd forgotten my yahoo password but wanted to change it. They sent a code to my phone and I was able to do that.

Then I tried to set up 2 factor authentication but I am unable to do it. It keeps rejecting the same phone number as being either invalid or not recognised as a contact, no matter which format I choose to enter it. I've dropped the interational prefix, added it, added and dropped the plus sign, added and dropped the 0 after the international prefix etc etc.

I'd dump yahoo altogether except it's the email for my paypal for over a decade and i can't change that.



I've changed my paypal email twice in the past already when I started getting too much spam.

Regarding 2FA at Yahoo!, I've also had issues... SMS stopped arriving altogether and I had to disable it.


Paypal says I can't change it because it's my primary email address. I prefer using authenticator anyway rather than sms 2fa and yahoo don't offer that it seems


Maybe you have to add a new email to your paypal account, then change it to be the primary and then delete the old one.


You're right! Thanks very much.




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