Okta Verify

One of the most annoying and redundant app a school has ever forced me to download. If I wish to use an alternative device other than my laptop. It give a some random reason why it cannot. I have a life outside of school, and I can't constantly go to an admin just so I can log in and do my work. This app just feeds into the unnecessary use of "secruity" when most of these people can't even keep a group of highschool drop outs from hacking them. I'd write more, but I'm limited to 500 characters.

The app and push notifications work up until they don't. It doesn't seem to matter if you leave it running in the background and disable power optimization for this. After a few days, the app stops working (no push notification, can't launch and load). When this happens, I've found that I need to restart the entire phone in order to get the app to work.

Works until it doesn't. Even when allowing the app to use the battery in the background, every few days the icon disappears and the app no longer opens. at that point I have to clear the cache, data, and re-enter all of my information. This is getting so repetitive, inefficient, and annoying. I wish my company still allowed us to verify by getting a code by text.

Not happy I need this app to authenticate for school. It requires some very sketchy permissions such as ability to discover, pair and advertise to nearby bluetooth devices. What does that have to do with authentication? No, they're probably tracking me (and you) to make money from advertisers. Oh, it also has access to your phone calls including the phone numbers of any active calls you're on. It can browse network connections (ie, to attempt to geolocate you). Security nightmare.

It works OK but the "fast pass" feature has never worked for me and takes up phone battery running in the background despite doing nothing. I tried doing it the right way, turning off battery optimization, giving it the permissions it needs, etc. But it simply didn't work. I had to restart the process and sign in with password and code. Now whenever I open the app to get the 2FA code, it starts running in the background and I have to force quit it when I'm done or it will run all day. wasteful