Phone SMS sign in Code

[Percy Vere]

Hello, how can I use the same phone number to verify via SMS in multiple email accounts.?

[stuck]

Is that trick question? Surely you just provide the same phone number to the various accounts?

Ken

[Percy Vere]

This is the image for my Outlook.com account. I also have a gmail account that I use as a Windows Live ID.
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[Percy Vere]

This is the reply from Microsoft Community.
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[StuartR]

If you want to create multiple Microsoft accounts, then why not use an authentication device, instead of SMS, for the second factor.

You could use an app on your phone (Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or something similar) or a hardware token (Yubikey).

[Percy Vere]

Hi StuartR, thanks for your reply. I will answer you including what I have done on Saturday. Its late & I'm rather busy for a 70 year old over the next 2 days.

[Percy Vere]

Hi StuartR, all names are specimens only.
My name is Thomas Wilson, it is used in my personal email account. T.Wilson X gmail.com. It has a strong password that I use in Google Chrome, I also am able to remember it to sign in on my Chromebook.
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I use Thomas Wilson as my Microsoft Account T.Wilson x gmail.com. It has a different password which I use to sign in on my Win 10 PC.
The account has been set to me logging in using a PIN.
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Use phone to sign in - NO
2-Step Verification - N0
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Ways to verify its me
Recovery using
My Mobile Phone
+ another Email address
This is on the first part of my thread.
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Not sure about the Microsoft Account. Accessing it upsets the apple cart at present.
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I have a hotmail.com account which is also a Microsoft Account. Accessing it could also upsets the apple cart.
I have had this for years, it gives me 25gb for my OneDrive account.
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I also have an outlook.com account, at present it is set to use my phone for verifying code. Not sure about the other 2 MS accounts.

[Ted Myers]

I am having similar trouble and is being investigated by answers.microsoft.com.

[HansV]

What a surprise!

[Mico]

Sorry for reviving this thread. Maybe this will help for future references.
For Gmail, there's a restriction on the number of new registrations that can be verified with the same phone number. Outlook is a bit more lenient in this regard, allowing you to use the same phone number for up to three accounts.
An alternative approach is using virtual numbers. These are temporary phone numbers that can be used to receive SMS verification codes.

[DocAElstein]

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For Gmail, there's a restriction on the number of new registrations that can be verified with the same phone number. Outlook is a bit more lenient in this regard, allowing you to use the same phone number for up to three accounts.
An alternative approach is using virtual numbers. These are temporary phone numbers that can be used to receive SMS verification codes.

As said before, those temporary numbers will rarely work to verify registering an Email account from a major world email provider. Certainly that is my experience with Gmail. I would be very surprised if Outlook is a bit more lenient in that regard, but I don’t know for sure.

Any temporary phone number will very quickly be used too many times. That is assuming we are talking about the same thing. As I understand it, a temporary number is often one that anyone can use temporarily. The Sites that offer these have a few numbers available, and they routinely add a few more. If you are very lucky, getting in quickly, on a newly added number, you may be able to use it to register an Email, but I expect the odds are heavily against it.
Possibly someone can pay these places to make a temporary number for them, that they then “use to death", as it were, possibly for registering Emails amongst other things, then they forget it and it becomes a new one on the Site’s list of recently added numbers to be used freely .

> allowing you to use the same phone number for up to three accounts. …………..
Allowing you to use the same phone number for up to three accounts does not seem to me very lenient to me. Allowing less than 2 or 3 would be very restrictive, IMO, as something unexpected might happen / break / or whatever, so that someone with just one phone number needs to register a new account once or twice.
It has been my experience using a few phone numbers, that a number can be used about 10 times, here in Germany, to verify registering an Email account at Gmail, (for me, or the mother in Law…. ) , more if I spread the registering over a long period of time, less if I try to do many quickly.
In addition, after using a particular phone number to verify registering a Gmail account, I have always been able to immediately after go into settings and change the phone number associated with the Gmail account. So far I have not hit the limit of using the same number associated with a Gmail account. I have in total used three different telephone numbers to register almost 30 Gmail accounts. But all the accounts are now associated with just one of those numbers. (By associate with, I mean like the number used to verify a log in sometimes, which they may generally sometimes insist on, or, always, if you have two step verification) – So one obvious conclusion to this is: You could ask a friend , or maybe someone who rarely wants to register an Email account, such as your Mother in Law, to allow you to use her phone, just for the initial registering verification, then buy her some flowers, and then in the settings change the phone number so that the dear Lady does not get pestered again for anything to do with the registered account

The limits are rarely made public by the provider, and are very likely changed, or different depending on various factors, such as the source appearing to be registering an account, or what the “bad people” on the internet are up to at the time, etc.

I have hit no limit yet on using the same telephone number to verify registering a freemail account at German Telekom, and I am at about 30 so far I think. But they are more sensitive with the IP address they see. They allow no registering with an IP address outside Germany, and also they seem to know a VPN IP and allow no registering with that, even if I, in Germany, attempt to use a VPN hidden behind a German server. Gmail on the other hand, seem happy to be “fooled” , or maybe they are happy to pretend they are fooled, by a VPN. I have used VPN sometimes when registering a Gmail account, and also, I have noticed a few times, that if I use a Gmail account often from the same VPN server, then they tell me they are changing my terms of use etc. to suit those valid for my apparent country – that is, that of the VPN server that I am hiding behind.

Alan