> In this initial release, your data will be backed up through the mobile operating system's backup services. Please make sure your device is turned on and configured for backups. Bitwarden Authenticator data is included in the OS backups and will be restored with them.
At least it's not defaulting to their own cloud service backend. This has always been my problem with these types of apps. Although, I'm not sure I fully understand the above description. I'm guessing if you have an iPhone with iCloud backup enabled, it means data is backed up to iCloud.
On my Android, what's the upside of using this instead of Google Authenticator if they both back up to the same place?
If they used their own cloud backend I would be a lot more interested. They could even offer to store it in their cloud end-to-end encrypted (making it my responsibility to keep the password safe). That would give me similar exposure as their password manager, which I'm already using.
Kinda worrying that it doesn't mention anything about how that is secured.
Google Authenticator had the fun idea to opt people into unencrypted (beyond whatever regular google drive files have) cloud backup of 2fa secrets, and it's been exploited in the ways you'd expect.
Android doesn't encrypt everything, and the details of what it does and doesn't encrypt are so fiddly that I don't feel confident enough to enable cloud backups.
At least it's not defaulting to their own cloud service backend. This has always been my problem with these types of apps. Although, I'm not sure I fully understand the above description. I'm guessing if you have an iPhone with iCloud backup enabled, it means data is backed up to iCloud.